The sooner we sue, the sooner we get results.  if we'd just sent a warning and not used the force of law, the pilot would most likely have become a full fledged lock out of the blind.

On Aug 3, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Mike Pietruk wrote:

Ana 

Unfortunately, I have to agree with the journalist and Redenbaug in this 
instance.  As much as access is nice, this was a waste of tax dollars as 
this was an experimental project at best.  Iff you demand access at every 
point, you are just adding cost to test projects and inhibiting their 
experimentation.
This country, given the mass waste of money by our politicians in 
Washington, can no longer afford law suits and federal actions each time 
someone somewhere seeks to test out something.
All that was needed, in this instance, was a memorandum that the schools, 
if this would be a universally established program for textbooks, be 
required to use accessible equipment.  That would have served warning to 
Amazon, the Kindel developers, and the schools that ultimately the device 
would have to incorporate accessibility features.

My stance may, on the surface appear blind unfriendly.  As a blind 
taxpayer, I like seeing my tax dollars used wisely and with discretion.  
There is a time and place for federal intervention; on the other hand, 
there is a time and place for the market forces to respond.  In this 
instance, the marketplace was not given that opportunity; and a warning 
would have more than sufficed and probably accomplisshed the same end 
without government waste and bureaucratic red tape interfering.  

There is far too much interference in the lives of the population by 
government as it is.  




God's answers are wiser than our prayerss.

--unknown


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