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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PennyRdr
on 07-01-2009
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
By Eric Engleman May 20, 2009 via TechFlash Amazon Kindle 2's text-to-speech feature, which reads electronic books aloud, is sparking more heated words. Amazon, if you recall, said it would allow authors and publishers to switch off text-to-speech on book titles, after the Authors Guild raised copyright...
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BusyBee
on 05-26-2009
Filed under: National Federation of the Blind, blind, print disabilities, visually impaired, Kindle 2, 15 million print-disabled Americans, discriminatory, copyright concerns, authors' guild, Reading Rights Coalition, disabling text to speech, read aloud feature, text to speech feature, Random House, equal access to books
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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BusyBee
on 04-28-2009
Filed under: National Federation of the Blind, blind, Amazon.com, Kindle 2, mainstream access to books, print disabilities, Reading Rights Coalition, text-to-speech, dyslexia, spinal cord injury, Randy Shaw, University of California at Los Angeles, equal education, e-book reader, LA Times Festival of Books, Marc Maurer, learning issues, processing issues, strokes, seniors, low vision, a way for books to reach a broader market, Deborah Kent, civil rights issue
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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BusyBee
on 04-06-2009
Filed under: Visually Impaired, blind, Amazon.com, learning or processing issues, Kindle 2, seniors losing vision, online petition, e-books, mainstream access to books, demonstration, the Authors' Guild, print disabilities, spinal cord injuries, people recovering from strokes, Reading Rights Coalition, text-to-speech, Amazon, dyslexia