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Leading Blindness Organizations File Suit Against Arizona State University, Register Complaints with Civil Rights Divisions at Department of Education and Department of Justice, and Send Protests to Five Additional Institutions of Higher Education

The major blindness organizations, the ones whose membership consists largely of people who are actually blind and visually impaired themselves, the American Council of the Blind (ACB) and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), and Darrell Shandrow...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2009 12:56 PM by PennyRdr

Filed under: American Council of the Blind, ADA, Section 504, ACB, Kindle 2, Amazon.com, discrimination, Americans with Disabilities Act, lawsuit, e-book reader, National Federation of the Blind, Darrell Shandrow, textbooks, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Department of Justice, Department of Education, Reed College, Reading Rights Coalition, Civil Rights Division, Pace University, inaccessible, text-to-speech capability, Arizona State University, Princeton University, ASU, Kindle DX, NFB, Case Western Reserve University, University of Virginia's Darden School of Business
Amazon.com Caves in to Authors' Guild

Amazon.com caved in. Amazon revealed last night that the text-to-speech feature they built into the Kindle 2 will now be optional for publishers. So, it will be up to the author and his or her publisher whether or not a Kindle user can take advantage...

Published Sun, Mar 03 2009 1:56 PM by PennyRdr

Filed under: Victor Reader Stream, Kindle 2, print disabilities, Amazon.com, president of the Authors' Guild, DAISY file, BookShare.org, ROY BLOUNT Jr., authors' guild, optional for publishers, audio books, text-to-speech
Online Petition Urges Amazon to Make the Kindle 2 Accessible

The rumors started a couple of days before Amazon.com announced a pending release date for the new and improved Kindle, the very successful wireless e-book reader which the company began selling in 2007. The online forums and interactive list-servs frequented...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2009 10:34 AM by PennyRdr

Filed under: Visually Impaired, braille, Victor Reader Stream, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, BookShare, accessible, Kindle 2, Talking Books, online petition, Project Gutenberg, print disabilities, accessible formats, Audible.com, Amazon.com, amazon.com/access, NLS, text-to-speech engine, DAISY, wireless e-book reader, accessible web site, blind

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Leading Blindness Organizations File Suit Against Arizona State University, Register Complaints with Civil Rights Divisions at Department of Education and Department of Justice, and Send Protests to Five Additional Institutions of Higher Education

Amazon.com Caves in to Authors' Guild

Online Petition Urges Amazon to Make the Kindle 2 Accessible

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