[nfbcs] Amazon and Sony Are Requesting That The Accessibility Requirement Be Waived for E-Book Readers

[Mike Freeman]

Kevin, that is a false analogy. 911 systems affect all in society. Whether a book reader is accessible or not only affects the blind and visually impaired.
Mike

On Aug 8, 2013, at 15:22, Kevin Fjelsted <kfjelsted at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's like saying that a phone company could build a system that doesn't permit or support accessing 911.
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> How many more deaths would there be if 911 wasn't universal?
> Saying that someone has a right to build  anything they want gives one a license to build an atomic or biological warfare bomb doesn't it?
> We can certainly protest on social media and build ground swell support.
> Remember back when companies said that it was impossible to make touch devices that the BLind could use?
> FUnny thing about that the iPHone seems to be usable now. :)
> We know the truth. It doesn't cost anything for Amazon to add accessibility to it's reader. It is already there and just locked up.
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> If the companies get away with this now they will just use it for future ammunition.
> We can't just rely on the government education mandate.
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> On Aug 8, 2013, at 5:05 PM, cheryl echevarria <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have to agree with Mike Freeman here and he has been around a long time.
>> They are a company, this country is not a communist country you have a right build and make whatever you like.
>> But what Amazon and Sony don't have a right to do is offer it to Schools and the Government because they are not accessible to everyone.
>> There are government contracts out there, and you have to qualify to get the contracts, if Amazon and Sony want these contracts they have to comply with the laws we put in place.
>> Like Hillary Clinton was trying to send the Kindles out of the country, I believe we stopped her and the World Blind Union on this matter.
>> We as blind people also have a right not to purchase there products, the Barnes and Noble Nook is supposed to be accessible, there are other e-book reading formats that are accessible, like BLIO. and on our cell phones apps, etc.
>> Let them make and build what they want, but don't put them out there in the schools and the government, that is when we can step in and make their l