I wonder if Intel feels sheepish right now. Here they are, thinking they’ve just launched a great new product for the blind, a mobile device that reads text aloud. Intel partnered with assistive tech pioneer HumanWare and reached out to the blind community to get their input, too. But the Intel Reader, announced yesterday, has [...]
Amazon’s new Kindle DX, designed for reading textbooks and newspapers, will include text-to-speech to allow students with print disabilities to read textbooks out loud. Amazon’s Director of Kindle Books, Laura Porco, said the company is working with three of the top five textbook publishers — Pearson, Cengage Learning and Wiley, along with more than 75 University [...]
Today I attended the Authors Guild protest in New York City, and turnout was good. There were about 100 protesters in all, many who are blind or have sight impairments, along with representatives from the International Dyslexia Association. The protesters teamed up with the Reading Rights Coalition to press the Guild to allow books to [...]
Some pictures from the Authors Guild protest at the Guild’s headquarters in New York City. Related articles: “We Want To Read” On Kindle, Protesters Say
Huffington Post has compiled a list of powerful quotes from people who signed an online petition called We Want to Read, following Amazon's decision to allow the Authors Guild to disable the text to speech feature in its Kindle 2 e-book reader.
A coalition of disability groups is planning to picket outside the Authors Guild headquarters in New York Tuesday in criticism of Amazon's decision to let the authors and publishers disable the text-to-speech feature on its e-book reader.
Nine disability organizations are pressuring publishers and Amazon to make all books on the Kindle 2 book reader available in audio format to people with sight and reading disabilities.
Bookshare has rebuilt its library to make it even more accessible to the 10 million people in the U.S. who cannot read traditional books. New features include an expanded collection of books as well as enhanced navigation and more powerful search functions for books in the collection.
