[nfb-talk] Fwd: Response for Support Ticket #102495

[Buddy Brannan]

And people ask why we fight with this when we don't have access to the  
Kindle. Precedent, it's all about the precedent.

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> 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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