Amazing yet not surprising. At least this seems like something that can be overcome by a little education rather than a technical problem or issues of 'willingness.'
CB Greg Kearney wrote: > 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 [email protected] > > 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: [email protected] > > Begin forwarded message: > > >> From: "Fictionwise.com" <[email protected]> >> Date: 11 August 2009 2:49:02 AM >> To: [email protected] >> 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 >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
