Justice Department Settles Kindle On-Campus Cases

AP via WSJ ^ | JANUARY 14, 2010

[CharlesWayneCT]

I think the blind can get hand-held book scanners that will read the words on pages of text.

Of course, the Kindle can read the words in the text too, unless the particular text license prevents it.

So the real issue should be against book-sellers, who could be made to provide codes to blind people to unlock the audio capabilities of their books, which otherwise they can ask more money for.

[sportutegrl]

I have a 20 dollar bill that doesn’t seem to have any sight impaired clues to distinguish it from a fiver.

[EDINVA]

This is the same DOJ that dropped the case of the baton-weilding thugs at the voting station in Philadelphia. What has become of our country?

[muawiyah]

Surprise, there's a lawsuit on that too. Blind people want talking money.

I think the last federal judge to look at the issue laughed out loud, but then it's on appeal and you just never know about them judges.

[Wonder Warthog]

Iagree with the complete asinity of both the bringing of the complaint, and with the gov't's judgment.

The Kindle already has sufficiently good sound output to handle "spoken books", thus it is already as fully available to the blind as any device largely focussed on vision can be. What more do they want, a tactile screen???