Access to e-books for People with Disabilities


NSCIA Joins Reading Rights Coalition in Urging Authors to Allow Everyone Access to E-books Informational Protest to be Held at Authors Guild Headquarters New York City (March 30, 2009): The Reading Rights Coalition, which represents people who cannot read print, will protest the threatened removal of the text-to-speech function from e-books for the Amazon Kindle 2 outside the Authors Guild headquarters in New York City at 31 East 32nd Street on April 7, 2009, from noon to 2:00 pm The coalition includes the blind, people with dyslexia, people with learning or processing issues, seniors losing vision, people with spinal cord injuries and disease, people recovering from strokes, and many others for whom the addition of text-to-speech on the Kindle 2 promised for the first time easy, mainstream access to over 255000 books.

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  1. bikentom May 21, 2010 4:52 pm

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  3. GreyWolfEyes1222 May 21, 2010 5:32 pm

    go get’em professirx! I’m also disABLED & would like to join the group, HighRollers. btw, the video sound screws up right around 1:41.
    also, please check out my channel to learn more about me. ty professirx.
    Piper

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