[Nfbmo] Fw: Wired Campus: Finding the Kindle a Poor Device for the Blind, 2 Universities Say They Won't Buy More

[James Moynihan]

fyi


We have kept A friend of ours informed about blindness issues.  He sent us these links which are very confusing.

It deals with universities which don't like the Kindle because it is inaccessible to blind people.  

 
Jim and Jana Moynihan
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