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Originally Posted by Marcy
As to the visually impaired, anyone impaired enough that they can't read the index of books and get their finger on the 1cm strip of screen devoted to each book, is in the legally blind range and not the target audience of an ereader. This is more nonsense like the school that banned the use of Kindles for a class because they couldn't be used by the blind. Guess what? The blind can't use a book either, so why not ban them? But I digress.
-Marcy
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No, you don't digress, you don't simply understand and you (apparently) don't care. E-readers are great for visually impaired people because (1) you can increase the fonts so much that even some people who are legally blind can read them; and (2) e-readers can use text-to-speech to read to people who otherwise can't read themselves. E-readers have allowed a lot of people to take back up reading who had to stop due to declining vision, and there's no point in crippling the device so that it can't be used that way. Even the iPhone has an accessibility mode to help the visually impaired.