Yup! It's a pile o' crap! I downloaded it and tried it out and it seemed very inaccessible for the few minutes I tried it before it crashed! On Sep 28, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Gary King wrote:
> K-NFB Reading Technology, a company which you would think should have the > blind as their highest priority, has released the long-awaited Blio eReader > today. After it was announced in January with glowing promises that it would > bring access to a million books to blind readers, K-NFB Reading Technology, a > joint venture of the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzweil > Technologies, has released a version of the Blio eReader that is not > accessible to screen readers. They promise on the download page that an > accessible version of Blio will be available in October, but they've missed > so many release dates, I'll believe it when it happens. How can we expect > companies to release accessible software from day one when a company in which > one of the partners is a national blindness organization doesn't even follow > this principle? > > To make matters worse, I just got an email message from K-NFB Reading > Technology telling me about all of the books I can read with the Blio > eReader. It reminds me of all of those messages from AMAZON.COM about the > Kindle PC software. > > Gary King > mailto:[email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
