[nfbcs] Fwd: Response for Support Ticket #102495

[Darrell Shandrow]

I've just sent back to them some questions from the perspective of a 
journalist. I may be writing up something on this issue sometime in the near 
future.

Regards,

Darrell


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Subject: [nfbcs] Fwd: Response for Support Ticket #102495


> 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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