[gui-talk] amazon.com caves in

[James Pepper]

 This is real simple, practically everyone does not know how to lay out a
book for accessibility.  This knowledge base does not exist.  I am trying to
fix that right now with a book on just how to do it but the big problem here
is that accessibility is very rare these days.

What did you expect amazon to do, their whole business is selling books,
thats their foundation and if hte publishers say hey you can't do this, and
pull their books from amazon, then amazon is in big trouble.

You have to wait for the technology to get better, for IT personnel to learn
the skills.  This is not going to happen overnight.  Most companies use
software that is 5 years or older.  This is going to take time.

James

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:

> You'd never get the last part passed.
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hoffman, Allen" <Allen.Hoffman at dhs.gov>
> To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 11:29 AM
> Subject: [gui-talk] amazon.com caves in
>
>
> I, for one, believe this deserves some official action by ALL groups who
> claim to represent people with visual disabilities.
>
> Claiming that rendering text via text to speech makes that an audio book
> for copyrights purposes is crap.  So, what seems to be needed is a
> specific amendment to copyrights law to indicate this is not the case,
> and can not be construed as such.  Furthermore, amend copyrights to say
> that unless the author offers an accessible product at the same price as
> others, no copyright shall exist.  Along with support of the law comes
> responsibilities in my view.
>
>
>
>
> Allen Hoffman
>
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