[Promotion-technology] Fwd: Response for Support Ticket #102495

[William ODonnell]

What is unclear?
Who is the problem?
Please Explain.
Thank you

--- On Mon, 8/10/09, Buddy Brannan <buddy at brannan.name> wrote:

> From: Buddy Brannan <buddy at brannan.name>
> Subject: [Promotion-technology] Fwd: Response for Support Ticket #102495
> To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>, "Evaluation and Advancement of Technology Committee on the Promotion" <promotion-technology at nfbnet.org>, "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>, nfbp-talk at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, August 10, 2009, 9:42 PM
> And people ask why we fight with this
> when we don't have access to the  
> Kindle. Precedent, it's all about the precedent.
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> > From: Greg Kearney <gkearney at gmail.com>
> > Date: August 10, 2009 9:08:52 PM EDT
> > To: macvisionaries at googlegroups.com,
> officeofthepresident at nfb.org, 
> 
> > Mary Beth Janes <mjanes at apple.com>,
> Mike Shebanek  
> > <shebanek at apple.com>,
> Discussion of Digital Talking Books <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org
> 
> > >, staff at authorsguild.org,
> info at acb.org,
> macvoiceover <macvoiceover at freelists.org
> 
> > >
> > Subject: Fwd: Response for Support Ticket #102495
> > Reply-To: macvisionaries at googlegroups.com
> >
> >
> > I got this back from Fictionwise.com the eReader
> people. This is the
> > very thing I have worried about with the action of the
> Author's Guild
> > in the United States.
> >
> > Here we have a company claiming that screen readers
> are a violation of
> > copyright, which is not the case either in the U.S. or
> Australia.
> > Furthermore in the case of the Macintosh and the
> iPhone the screen
> > reader is a part of the operating system and not as
> Fictionwise.com
> > would suggest "another program".
> >
> > It is also an interesting question if writing an
> application or device
> > which deliberately inaccessible, as would seem to be
> the case here, as
> > opposed to simply forgetting to include accessibility
> may well be
> > illegal under civil rights laws in several nations.
> >
> > At the very least Apple should not be a party to such
> a thing and
> > should never approve applications which have been so
> crippled by
> > deliberate act.
> >
> > I have asked Fictionwise to put this statement into
> writing and to
> > mail it to me. I would urge those of you who feel
> strongly about this
> > issue to also contact them at support at fictionwise.com
> >
> > Gregory Kearney
> > Manager - Accessible Media
> > Association for the Blind of Western Australia
> > 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101
> > Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia
> >
> > Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202
> > Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America)
> > Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696
> > Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only)
> > Email: gkearney at gmail.com
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> >> From: "Fictionwise.com" <support at fictionwise.com>
> >> Date: 11 August 2009 2:49:02 AM
> >> To: gkearney at gmail.com
> >> Subject: Response for Support Ticket #102495
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, the ability to scoop the ebook's
> text using another
> >> application has been disabled for
> copyright-protection reasons.
> >>
> >> Being able to scoop the text out, into another
> program, would allow
> >> for easy duplication of copyrighted materials.
> >>
> >> Our software cannot be used with screen-reader
> software.
> >>
> >> We apologize for the inconvenience.
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >>
> >> Ted
> >> eReader.com Support Team
> >>
> >>
> ============================================================
> >> You wrote:
> >> No accessibility for the blind using VoiceOver on
> either Mac or
> >> iPhone. Your
> >> Macintosh and iPhone applications are not
> accessible to the blind
> >> using the
> >> built in screen reader on both devices. Lists of
> book can not be
> >> navigated and
> >> books once loaded can not be read. Why is this the
> case?
> >>
> >> Greg Kearney
> >> Manager -Accessible Media
> >> Association for the Blind of Western Australia
> >>
> >
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