I remember there also being an issue with authors guild wanting the text 
to speech disabled if the author desired it so. there was no mention of 
the author's guild in this article. Did that issue get resolved?
Brian


On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, 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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