Well, I guess I am not as convinced as you are. The truth is it really is
all about the money, and rich publishers figure they aren't going to make
much money off of blind people anyway, so why should they give in because
they have the money and the control and they would just as soon keep it that
way.
If blind folks would tell Amazon that the blind are going to start a
campeign to publically advertise the lame way that they have bowed to the
publishers and that every attempt would be made to convince people not to
buy from Amazon until they changed their actions then maybe they might get
somewhere.
But, I know a whole lot of blind people who complain about Kindell and go
right ahead and purchase all kinds of other things from Amazon. So, if they
really want to get the point accross they had better be willing to stop
making any purchases from Amazon until it starts to hurt a little. If you
tell them you want them to change then don't keep giving them any business
until they wise up and change Kindell.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ricardo Walker" <rwalker...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: Kindle App on iPhone
lol,
I agree its stupid but, I doubt these people huddled up in a corner and
said, " lets figure out away to steel money from a population base which
extremely small, and has a 70% unemployment rate. I just think their
paranoid about sighted people taking advantage of this, not how to make an
extra buck off blind folks.
JMO.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Mar 22, 2012, at 10:03 PM, Ray Foret Jr <rfore...@att.net> wrote:
That's not quite true. It's not because of copy right. The truth is
this. It's because of the Author's guild. They don't want the blind to
be able to read their books without extra costs. Their twisted reasoning
is that the text to speech technology will rob them of sales. Every
single organization of the blind is fighting this stupid infantile logic.
Sincerely,
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On Mar 22, 2012, at 8:39 PM, Hank Smith wrote:
so because of stupid drm copy write crap the blind can't read the ebooks?
On 3/22/2012 6:30 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Jeff,
There are a number of ebook apps that specifically disable VoiceOver's
ability to access the content in order to preserve digital rights
management. This is also true if you try to use the Barnes & Noble Nook
app, for example. You'll notice that usually you can access everything
except for the actual content of the text. That's being blocked. You
can verify this by taking a screen capture, and sending the results to
an OCR app like Prizmo or TextGrabber. The OCR app will tell you what
the contents are, but obviously you're not going to read the book by
screen capturing every page and sending it to an OCR app.
If you want to read another example of this viewpoint, that the ability
of screen readers to access text would promote copyright violation, take
a look at Greg Kearney's posted response from Fictionwise in the
archives, sent in reply to his inquiry about ebook accessibility for
their ebook reading app just a few months after the iPhone 3GS
was released with VoiceOver support:
• Fwd: Response for Support Ticket #102495
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg06200.html
Since this is the Mail Archive post, if you're reading on your computer,
you can also use access key shortcuts of Control-N to read down the
thread for other reader comments.
Best,
Esther
On Mar 22, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
Forget it. It ain't gonna happen.
It ain't accessible at all.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
Skype name:
barefootedray
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On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote:
Hi All,
I downloaded the Kindle app so I can read some of the books that my
wife is reading. I can't, however, figure out how to get it to work.
Has anybody had success with the Kindle app? Is it accessible? Any
tips?
It looks like, to me, that it is displaying images instead of
rendering the text.
Thx,
Jeff
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