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Originally Posted by BWinmill
How does nepotism apply here?
As for accessibility and software, that has always confused me. One of the great things about computers is that it's easy to make things accessible. It's not like books, especially in the olden days, when you'd have to typeset a separate large print edition and a braille edition and record an audiobook to address people with visual impairments and limited mobility. One file can address all of the above.
Alas, it is also a difficult battle to fight. I remember the early days of the web when people were doing funky things with images (sans alt tags) that screen readers and braille devices couldn't handle or when people were creating funky layouts that were hard for those assistive technologies found hard to follow. The solutions were simple and fast to implement, but people just didn't want to do so.
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Nepotism could be keeping a less than stellar employee because they are related
Probably not the case, but all I can think of in the way of an explanation.
And I agree that ereaders should and certainly could have more accessible menus. But most don't. Someone is losing out on a niche market of supplying special magnification sheets designed to fit ereaders. Or a stand at the right height. One does not have to use the menus that often, so it would be a viable option except for the very demanding.
Helen