[nabs-l] problems with blio

[Steve Jacobson]

It is not likely that BLIO is choosing to disable this but rather the author.  I thought this had been dealt with but apparently has not.  The intent of BLIO is to 
be a general e-book reader with a lot of attention built in for blind persons and accessibility.  However, it isn't intended to be a site only for the blind.  
Sometimes the best of intentions come to pass slowly.  

Best regards,

Steve Jacpobson


On Tue, 8 May 2012 17:00:35 -0500, Sophie Trist wrote:

>I know, I just don't see why they would choose to disable it. Maybe it costs more or something.

>Sent from my iPhone

>On May 8, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Jorge Paez <jorge.paez1994 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Interesting.
>> I saw some books on the site version that do say they have "text-to-speech enabled" so it should've been there somewhere.
>> As far as why it would've been disabled,
>> I think its because that's a decision authors/publishers make, and I think, legally, the company, in this case KNFB can't force them to do that.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On May 8, 2012, at 4:49 PM, Sophie Trist wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi y'all,
>>> 
>>> Recently, I got the Blio app, which is an acessible Ebook reader for the iPhone. Yeserday, I bought a book from the Blio store and attempted to rea it 
only to find that the text-to-speech feature was not enabled. I doubt there is any way to manually enable this feature, but if there is, would you please let 
me know? What troubled me about this was that nowhere in the product details did it tell me whether text-to-speech was enabled or not. And just out of 
curiosity, why would text-to-speech not be enabled on a website specifically designed for blind users?
>>> Yours,
>>> Sophie Trist
>>> 
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