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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Yes, as a person with a disability, I definitely sit around waiting for everything in life to cater to me. LOL. 
You asked why a consumer wouldn't be willing to wait. I told you why that's not fair for a huge segment to the populace. If your position is that disabled people should just suck it, then YOU are the one with the entitlement complex, not I.  |
Since when has life been fair... people do the best they can... considering that the vast majority of paper books were never produced in braille/audio formats (and never will be) and films/TV similarly for subtitling, what's different about ebook reading (which can actually offer text to speech in some cases)...
Some things will be converted, for those of alternate abilities, at a much faster rate than others, some will never be converted if a need is not perceived or is insufficient... and in some cases there is no way a need can be fulfilled... blind watching "Wicked," listening yes but not watching and if you can't get it in a form you require then lobby the producers of the book etc, enough people do so and then you may get a result... I doubt that being "entitled" is going to get everyone to stop work on new material to retro-convert every printed item in the world and, in fact, things have never been better according to sight-impaired friends as text to speech tools work far better from ebooks than printed page scanning and conversion without having to rely on volunteers to read books onto tape for instance...
The same applies to other media and just because you (and others) think Wicked, is a life-changing experience that is vital to the well-being of members of the human race, doesn't give you a right to it at any particular time... especially as other people think that it is a meretricious piece of rubbish that offers nothing new to the human condition... works both ways...