Amazon.com will improve its Kindle’s functionality as it promises to add two more features to the gadget to make it more accessible to visually-impaired users.

The plan was announced on Monday, a month after the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York said they refuse to use the e-book reader as replacement to textbooks until Amazon finds a way to make it useful to blind students too.

At present, the Kindle has a read-aloud feature available for blind people and those that have other disabilities such as dyslexia, but activating it would require the user to navigate through text menus.

Amazon said it is toiling its efforts on producing audible menus that would enable the Kindle to speak menu selections out loud.

Several colleges and universities are currently testing the Kindle DX this academic year as alternatives to textbooks and newspapers.

The Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind have already filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona because of endorsing this electronic device which discriminates against blind students.

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