they certainly are better than the other main commercial concern. the only
problem I see with apple is that some of their hardware is a bit overpriced for
how its made.
-eric
On Mar 26, 2012, at 5:18 AM, Gigi wrote:
> Hi guys
> Well, as for me, I think I'll do business with one company that I
Hi guys
Well, as for me, I think I'll do business with one company that I don't have to
argue with. You know guys, the one that has iTunes. I can get all the books
I'll ever want to read from iTunes, and I don't have to argue with them.
Regards
Gigi
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On Mar 25, 2012, at 7:49
I would have asked a bit more abruptly than he did. the problem I have is that
I do not know if the NFB, ACB or any of the other blindness ors even support or
oppose litigation against the AAG (American Author's Guild). I am an NFB member
and if litigation is the tool to use, then I would use it
I have a nice solution if someone wants to know how I lost my sight. I simply
explain it. I give them the short story and let them fill in the blanks from
there.
now, if a prospective employer were to ask me about how I handle my blindness,
I can tell them "easily enough". if they press the iss
lol,
Isn't this getting a bit out of hand? Your asking this 1 person to defend
himself? IDK, either he's telling the truth, or he's not, either way, what
does it change? Sounds like your trying to put the guy up on perjury charges.
lol. Documentary evidence? come on.
JMO.
Ricardo Walker
ri
Hi all
Well I am not in the US either and I can tell you that the BBC has
featured a piece on the American Authors' Guild and their dog in the
manger attitude to this.
Some authors have been mentioned in the course of this discussion. Can
any of them be persuaded to speak out against this publicl
Hi guys Karen, doesn't sound like we're talking about what you care. It sounds
like we're talking about emotions. That's a very difficult thing to come back.
I have you decided decided if I wanted to weigh in on this topic, but I would
like to say that there's no way I would give people informati
Esther,
Two questions.
Does the author's guild have statistical evidence that the average mac
product user even knows that voiceover is there let alone that they would
opt for this behavior?
I might point out that audiobooks, commercial ones were not created for the
vision challenged population
Which is why this stupid nonsense will probably rob us of access in
the name of their closed minded greed until the old members of the
gild all die and we get minds in there with open minds to a moddern
world perspective. The good part is there excessive greed will put
them under extra stress which
not sure what they are, or are not, doing. I am thinking that they may think
the case may be hard to win. personally, it may be about the cost the lawyers
are going to extract before any monies get paid to the recipients of the class.
anyway, I really hate to have to use the hammer of the law,
Hi folks,
responding to a couple of comments here.
First the nfb and acb do not talk much to each other, they are hardly going
to unite on this, especially with some in their camp benefiting in a way
from the issues, they can still sell their own products at high process
for reading materials.
Hi all.
What is the NFB, ACB, and other organisations who support print disable people
doing about this?
They have the funds and expertise to challenge it in a class action. I
In relation to the number of people who have been restricted from reading
Ebooks via this method is larger then Americ
Say Steve, your reply appears to be way at the bottom of the message. Unless i
am mistaken, it seems to be common practice to set one's e-mail client to set
the reply at the top of the message. Less scroling down.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Mac use
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 07:03:30PM -0700, Jamie Tachiyama wrote:
> They get around it by making the Kindle for PC app accessible.
>
>
> On 3/22/12, 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
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> until they wise up and change Kindell.
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Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 8:53 PM
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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 ha
thats the very point: MONEY. to them, the 25 million of us that are print
disabled aren't a large enough market to worry about. considering how many
people actually read in the US, our population is roughly 10% of the overall
population. that is a non-trivial market. If they simply allowed us to
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
if any one does start a law sute count me in.
this is friggen rediculiss.
On 3/23/2012 5:30 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
that has already happened. you can't play it out loud because they have already
declared it a public performance. even the protests in front of the American
Authors Guild HQ a couple
that has already happened. you can't play it out loud because they have already
declared it a public performance. even the protests in front of the American
Authors Guild HQ a couple of years back didn't even sway them. they did offer
to setup a registry of blind people that purchase from Amazon
Hi all
I first cane across this when I looked into the speech on the Kindle
itself, when it first came out with that function and couldn't believe
the attitude of the Authors' Guild. It seems to me, if you buy a book,
it shouldn't matter a damn whether you want to access the text by
looking at a s
Hi Ray,
You're correct that the policy of blocking VoiceOver access to eBook content in
the Kindle app arises from the Author's Guild suit, but the guild is mostly
worried about readers who are not visually impaired making use of these
text-to-speech capabilities to listen to ebooks instead of
They get around it by making the Kindle for PC app accessible.
On 3/22/12, 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
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 tecnhology will rob them of sales. Every single org
Hi Hank,
The issue for the Kindle app is that the Author's Guild brought suit when
Amazon added text-to-speech functionality to the second generation Kindle. One
of the consequences was that subsequently, only ebooks where text-to-speech
access is specifically granted can have this turned on f
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
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 exce
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!!!
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On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I downloaded the
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