I, for my part, predict that the NFB will sue Amazon for their behavior toward us. After all, we're trying to talk to them but they never listen. So, after a while, suing may well be the only option here. Sorry to say.
Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray On Oct 10, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote: > Apparently, aside from voiceover, on the kindle devices themselves, the > publisher can decide if they want to allow the user to be able to listen to a > book. Amazon should have never bowed to that pressure, they should have told > the publishers, we have blind users who need access to these books, we're not > disabling the speech features. Sure, the publishers could have refused to > license the content at that point, but they would have been shooting > themselves in the foot if they had done that. Their newest kindle fire > tablets are also not accessible, even though the newest versions of android > are completely accessible with the touch screen. Amazon is making it quite > clear from their actions that they do not want our business. > Original message: >> 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. 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