It would be nice if companies would make their products accessible not
because they have to, but because it's the right thing to do and
increases their sales. When companies are sued, they usually only do
the minimum that is required to comply. On the other hand, if a company
believes that we are consumers like everyone else, and they are losing
money because their products are not accessible, they will probably
devote more resources to making their products accessible. The blind
community is not as small of a market as some think it is.
Unfortunately, Amazon seems to have no interest in accessibility
whatsoever. The most they have provided is a kindle device that was not
even completely accessible. They refuse to make their iphone and
android apps accessible, even though both platforms provide clear
documentation on how to do this. Unfortunately, a law suit may be the
only option in their case.
Original message:
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]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>
[email protected]
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On Oct 9, 2012, at 8:22 PM, "Cheree Heppe" <[email protected]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>>
To: <[email protected] <mailto:[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
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