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Originally Posted by DMSmillie
Totally agree.
I suspect the disabling of TTS is a "side effect" of the copy protection that DRM slaps on an ebook. It was a problem with PDFs several years ago - if it was created with security enabled, to prevent unauthorised copying of the text content, that disabled the ability of screen readers and other access software to access the content, making it impossible for a blind person to access it (the level at which screen reader software needed to access the content was the same level of access that was locked by the security feature). Adobe took a while, but they eventually sorted that out. Could be something similar going on with ebook DRM.
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Unfortunately, it's not that. It's actually a flag they have to go out of their way to specify to disable TTS. TTS works by default.
They fought to be able to disable TTS, and they won.
Thankfully, there are a ton of DRMd books that haven't had TTS disabled. I'm dopey on meds today - but .... was it the publisher who didn't join the big 5? Random House?
Anyhow, they made the biggest stink, and I think disabling tts is their policy, though I thought I saw one of their imprints the other day that wasn't disabled.
The guilt should also be shared by the "union" or whatever the group is called that read audiobooks. They all got together and fought tts too. A pox on them all, I say.