I'm sorry but publishers do have a right to sell audio books I have to disagree with you on this one. I've also personally seen a sited user use the TTS features meant for the blind in some devices, including going so far as buying a copy of mobile speak for winmo to add TTS to their books.
On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: > and why the hell do they care! publishers suck if its their choice > On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:15 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > >> If you go to the page on amazon for the accessible Kindle app, you'll see >> that they require that one have a screen reader installed to use the tts >> feature. that's why they can let us have access to all the books, even those >> that are tts disabled on the Kindle hardware. Sighted people generally don't >> have screen readers installed, but with Macs and I-devices, that's not the >> case. I hope I am proven wrong and amazon actually does make the thing >> vo-compatible, but I bet they don't do anything for I-devices, and they'll >> have to come up with a way to ensure that only screen reader users can >> access the tts on the Mac. How do you do that when VO is on all Macs? >> >> Mary >> Mary Otten >> motte...@gmail.com >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
