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Originally Posted by elcreative
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...
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I know a couple that's hearing impaired, one of them complains constantly about the lack of a few titles that don't have closed captioning, the wife always tells him to shutup because they have more stuff than they ever did in the '80s or '90s by a huge margin. It's a valid point that plays directly into the topic of entitlement/"I want everything and I want it now".