I take your point, however the software is not totally inaccessible.
While it is true you can't read books, or set the preferences, you seem
to think the app is totally unusable. At least you can browse their
bookstore and get a feel for what content they have.
Previously, Gary King said:
I had to read the note on the download page a couple of times because
I couldn't believe it, but after reading it, I didn't bother
downloading the program. We've grown to expect poor treatment from
Microsoft and from the bad boy of the assistive technology industry,
but I didn't expect it from K-NFB Reading Technology.
Gary King
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----- Original Message ----- From: "David McLean" <[email protected]>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: Inaccessible Blio eReader Released
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
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