via SFGate By Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, January 1, 2010 During her high school years, Lisamaria Martinez, who has been visually impaired since she was 5, carried a 25-pound backpack to school crammed with books written in Braille. But once she was introduced to...
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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, a university student who is blind, are suing Arizona...
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If you live in the Los Angeles area, check out this intriguing event, and stop by the Reading Rights Coalition booth #207 in Zone B to lend your support and cheer the coalition on as they continue to advocate for access to e-books for all of us! Thank you to Media-Dis-n-Dat at blogspot.com for posting...
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We were delighted to learn that Amazon.com, responding to an online petition asking for accessible controls on the Kindle 2, has promised to make the reading device's controls speak aloud. That is great news for people who cannot see the controls; now people who are blind and visually impaired will...
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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 of a convenient feature which would have allowed a...
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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 by people who are blind and visually impaired...
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