It is not accessible on Macs iPhone and Windows. Greg
Sent from my iPhone On 16/08/2009, at 11:13 AM, Dan Eickmeier <va3...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > Yeah seems to me as if this company has made a deliborate effort to > not make their product accessible, rather than an effort to make it > accessible. Are their productsfor the Mac, iPhone, or both? > On Aug 10, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Greg Kearney wrote: > >> >> I got this back from Fictionwise.com the eReader people. This is the >> very thing I have worried about with the action of the Author's Guild >> in the United States. >> >> Here we have a company claiming that screen readers are a violation >> of >> copyright, which is not the case either in the U.S. or Australia. >> Furthermore in the case of the Macintosh and the iPhone the screen >> reader is a part of the operating system and not as Fictionwise.com >> would suggest "another program". >> >> It is also an interesting question if writing an application or >> device >> which deliberately inaccessible, as would seem to be the case here, >> as >> opposed to simply forgetting to include accessibility may well be >> illegal under civil rights laws in several nations. >> >> At the very least Apple should not be a party to such a thing and >> should never approve applications which have been so crippled by >> deliberate act. >> >> I have asked Fictionwise to put this statement into writing and to >> mail it to me. I would urge those of you who feel strongly about this >> issue to also contact them at supp...@fictionwise.com >> >> Gregory Kearney >> Manager - Accessible Media >> Association for the Blind of Western Australia >> 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 >> Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia >> >> Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202 >> Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) >> Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696 >> Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only) >> Email: gkear...@gmail.com >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: "Fictionwise.com" <supp...@fictionwise.com> >>> Date: 11 August 2009 2:49:02 AM >>> To: gkear...@gmail.com >>> Subject: Response for Support Ticket #102495 >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Unfortunately, the ability to scoop the ebook's text using another >>> application has been disabled for copyright-protection reasons. >>> >>> Being able to scoop the text out, into another program, would allow >>> for easy duplication of copyrighted materials. >>> >>> Our software cannot be used with screen-reader software. >>> >>> We apologize for the inconvenience. >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> >>> Ted >>> eReader.com Support Team >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> You wrote: >>> No accessibility for the blind using VoiceOver on either Mac or >>> iPhone. Your >>> Macintosh and iPhone applications are not accessible to the blind >>> using the >>> built in screen reader on both devices. Lists of book can not be >>> navigated and >>> books once loaded can not be read. Why is this the case? >>> >>> Greg Kearney >>> Manager -Accessible Media >>> Association for the Blind of Western Australia >>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
