[nfb-talk] FW: [Nfbnet-members-list] National Federationof the Blind Comments on New Kindles

Sat Sep 8 22:37:06 UTC 2012

Lest we forget! * Smile! * Thanks for the reminder, Mike!!

Chris

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Federationof	the	Blind Comments on	New Kindles

Get Blio from K-NFB Reading Technology.  Blio is fully 
accessible.

Best,

Michael Hingson

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Blind Comments on New Kindles

Ray,

I would say Barnes And Noble, but their Nooks aren't accessible 
either.
Grrrrrrr!

Chris

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[mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 11:31 AM
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Federation of the
Blind Comments on New Kindles

Can you ever say that again for sure!  IN fact, to speak frankly, 
I'm in
search of an ulternative vendor to amazon to meat my main 
shopping wants and
needs;  CD's, DVD's, electronic goods such as depe fat friers 
ETC.
Anybody out there got suggestions?

Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!

Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!

Skype name:
barefootedray

On Sep 7, 2012, at 7:59 AM, "Rovig, Lorraine" <LRovig at nfb.org> 
wrote:

 Have you read the one paragraph quote by Dr.  Maurer below?  I 
keep
thinking what a good thing, really-really Good Thing it is that 
the NFB is
working on this for all the blind and visually impaired students 
going off
to school (K-12, college, and adult education) and all the blind 
and
visually impaired employees whose employers employ inaccessible 
equipment.
Inaccessible equipment and inaccessible Internet sites mean 
people who need
accessibility have lives with more difficulty and often 
unnecessarily much
poorer than for people who can use stuff out of the box.  If, I 
mean, "when"
we have won the fight with Amazon for accessibility being built 
into devices
in the design stage, and, when Amazon discovers this means more 
money for
the company (which it will), we will have won BIG across the 
board.  Amazon
is worldwide; we will be influencing companies and inventers 
worldwide.
Everyone will take notice-just like all the big players took 
notice when we
sued AOL.  The biggest sad part is that the longer it takes, the 
more
inaccessible devices are made and bought and out there.  I am 
just one
person, Amazon won't listen to me but still I can help.  I vote 
with my
wallet - both by not buying a Kindle and by helping the NFB raise 
the funds
it needs to carry the fight to the court of public opinion, to 
the Congress,
and, when necessary, to our courts of law.

 Go NFB!

 Lorraine Rovig
 Member of the NFB since July 1975

 Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 9:12 PM

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 National Federation of the Blind Comments on New Kindles

 Baltimore, Maryland (September 6, 2012): The National Federation 
of
 the
Blind<http://www.nfb.org>, the nation's leading advocate for 
accessible
technology and content<https://www.nfb.org/access-technology>, 
commented
today on Amazon's press conference announcing new Kindle 
e-readers and
tablets.

 Dr.  Marc Maurer<http://www.nfb.org/marc-maurer-bio>, President 
of the
National Federation of the
Blind<http://www.facebook.com/NationalFederationoftheBlind>, 
said: "The U.S.
Department of State has just withdrawn a single-source contract 
proposal
involving the Kindle family of devices, possibly due to our 
concerns about
the lack of
accessibility<http://www.nfb.org/national-federation-blind-files-
complaint-a
gainst-state-department> in virtually all iterations of the 
Kindle.
gainst-state-department> Despite
the State Department action, our repeated encouragement of Amazon 
to
incorporate accessibility, and the fact that companies like Apple 
and Google
are actively engaged in the incorporation of accessibility 
features into
their devices, there is no evidence that these new Kindles are 
accessible.
It seems abundantly clear where Amazon stands.  The National 
Federation of
the Blind will continue to fight for access to all manner of 
devices and
content and to oppose the deployment of inaccessible devices and 
content by
entities that are covered by our nation's disability laws."
 ###

 About the National Federation of the Blind With more than 50,000
 members, the National Federation of the Blind is the largest and 
most
influential membership organization of blind people in the United 
States.
The NFB improves blind people's lives through advocacy, 
education, research,
technology, and programs encouraging independence and 
self-confidence.  It
is the leading force in the blindness field today and the voice 
of the
nation's blind.  In January 2004 the NFB opened the National 
Federation of
the Blind Jernigan Institute, the first research and training 
center in the
United States for the blind led by the blind.

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