Amazon Inc. has announced that, it will be upgrading its famed electronic book reader, Kindle in effort to reach out to the users are either blind or visually impaired. The Kindle has seen significant success ever since its launch on November 19th, 2009 and users across the United States have been more than willing to try this incredible e-reader.

Recently Syracuse University and University of Wisconsin-Madison had purchased a couple of Kindle machines to test their feasibility in eliminating the need of text books for the blind and visually challenged students. However, both universities have now stated that, they will not be implementing Kindle in their institutions, till Amazon makes necessary changes to the device that would help the disabled users, thus prompting the immediate response from Amazon.

Although, Kindle sports a feature that reads out the text into speech, still in order to activate this feature, a user needs to got through a vast text menu to reach to this feature, thus making it useless for those who are visually challenged. However, Amazon has stated that, it is indeed working on new menus designed to provide auditory instructions to the users and is trying out larger fonts that can be used in Kindle, to help the visually impaired users. These new updates are expected to reflect in the Kindle electronic book reader by the summer of 2010.

Via Associated Press.