Hi, The sad thing is that fictionwise has provided a lot of accessible content over the years. They produce and distribute eBooks in as many formats as possible, for example, and when it used to be possible to access some PDF eBooks but not others, they always clearly stated whether the read-aloud function was available for each book, so you would know before buying it whether you'd be able to read it. They even considered producing their books in braille format, or at least the ones publishers agreed to. I'm not sure what happened.
Best, Anna On Aug 15, 2009, at 10:13 PM, Dan Eickmeier wrote: > > Yeah seems to me as if this company has made a deliborate effort to > not make their product accessible, rather than an effort to make it > accessible. Are their productsfor the Mac, iPhone, or both? > On Aug 10, 2009, at 9:08 PM, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
