[nabs-l] problems with blio

[Joshua Lester]

Yeah, but those people still violate it!
We need stronger laws, and more enforcement!
Blessings, Joshua

On 5/8/12, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Chris,
> yes it is; its in the individuals with disabilities education act.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Nusbaum
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 9:27 PM
> To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] problems with blio
>
> Exactly right! It's all about the constituent pressure! But isn't that
> regulation (the regulation which says that Braille is the primary medium
> for
> reading and writing instruction for blind students) already on the books?
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Sophie Trist
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 9:05 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] problems with blio
>
> Well... yeah, but that's a huge pain in the butt and I don't recommend it.
> You have to select each individual page and read it. For a one or two page
> document, that's not bad, but for a 400-page book it would be kinda hard.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Nusbaum" <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
> To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Tue, 8 May 2012 20:02:28 -0400
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] problems with blio
>
> Hi Sophie,
>
> Hmm... I'm not sure. Would you be able to just use VoiceOver to read it?
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sophie Trist
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 4:49 PM
> To: nabs
> Subject: [nabs-l] problems with blio
>
> 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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