[nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness

[Jorge Paez]

Is it true they're not allowing it because "its a market?"

In other words,
they wanna record text to speech engines reading books to sell as part of mainstream sales later on and so they're not allowing it in current devices.


On May 1, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Mike Freeman wrote:

> Partly.  But we're nowhere near there yet and some Kindle books still don't
> allow speech access.
> 
> Mike
> 
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> Glad to have the coalition website; and did the kindle become accessible?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Tina Hansen
> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 7:04 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] New Technology and Blindness
> 
> Maybe I can explain. The Reading Rights Coalition is not officially
> affiliated with the NFB, but it's a consortium of organizations who have
> voiced their concerns about access to the Kindle and other mainstream
> electronic books. The coalition is made up of blindness organizations as
> well as organizations with other disabilities that make reading print
> difficult. The web site is
> 
> www.readingrights.org
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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