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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
What you don't get that is is NOT cool to leave people out. You made up a fictional book with all sorts of fictional reasons as to why someone should not be allowed to format shift. As soon as people bring up very valid points as to the entire segment of the population that you are making a POINT to leave out - and now it's that "I didn't say that." The fact is that digital is making EVERYTHING assessable. My blind cousin has an iPhone and a Kindle. Just because your fictional book didn't take into account those people with disabilities is no reason to get all huffy.
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Just because the tem I talked about was hypothetical doesn't mean such items don't exist... I have a book that is designed to showcase someone's design ideas using specific typography, hand made paper (with more design elements in it) and artwork - each page has a single letter of the alphabet on it in a different typeface... how do you make that accessible to a blind person??? Hey,I know let's OCR it and/or convert to speech, that'll be fascinating and really put the whole experience across - "A, B, C, D, E..."
What about art books and photography books - they're PRINTED, there's NO texture to be handled... sticking it on a computer screen doesn't make it accessible and just to repeat, simply because my discussion point was hypothetical doesn't mean that there aren't many things that can't be made equal opportunity accessible simply because we want them to be... I'm NOT trying to leave out sections of the population, the real world does that and wishing it wasn't so doesn't change a damn thing unless you want to make any expression, that can't be accessed by everybody, illegal - way to go... and you were the one who got huffy because I said that there were artisitic expressions that couldn't be equally accessed by people who may be differently enabled...