I agree, I've written them at least five times but that's not enough. We should start organizing a plan. I'm annoyed at all the ridicules greed driven decisions made against visually impaired and blind people. The fact is the vo or read aloud works on their Kindle so they are'nt worried about sighted people using it instead of audio books, they want us to buy their kindle hardware - which makes no sense whatsoever as the last thing I need is another book reader with a cumbersome screen I can't appreciate. It's bad enough the ebook industry has formed a cartel-like union, inflating eBook prices well above paperback costs, without the production costs, nor the jobs printing books would provide; now they are placing obstacles to accessibility. It's inexcusable.
Tammy L. Abreu-Butron (408) 892-1964 mobile [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] On Oct 9, 2012, at 8:22 PM, "Cheree Heppe" <[email protected]> wrote: > Cheree Heppe here: > > The way to stop the discriminatory behavior is with some old-fashioned letter > writing, blogging, senator contacting and maybe, demonstrating. > > > Regards, > Cheree Heppe > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Arrigo" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 20:05 > Subject: Re: Kindle app > > > That is one of the most ridiculous and insane things I have ever heard. It's > bad enough that Amazon does not make this app accessible, but, if they are > indeed preventing voiceover users from reading the content, that is > disgraceful to put it nicely. > On Oct 9, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Adrienne Sinclair Chalmers wrote: > >> Actually it's worse than it just won't work, Voiceover has been deliberately >> disabled by order of those nice folk at Amazon. Their reason seems to be >> that Voiceover is free and so sighted people might use it to get their books >> read out to them. Sounds like a load of spurious drivel to me. I wish there >> was some way to stop this sort of discriminatory behaviour. >> >> Best >> >> Adrienne >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
