Originally Posted by Sil_liS
The logic of the waiver is like this: the manufacturers are aware that ACS capable devices have to comply with the accessibility laws, and they are going to manufacture compliant tablets; however the current eink e-readers have gray-scale screens with slow refresh rates and in the words of the waiver: "if users attempt to access ACS on an e-reader device, the user experience would not be robust and likely would not encourage future use for ACS".
So color video capable eink has to keep missing from e-readers forever in order for the manufacturers to have a reason for keeping the e-readers exempt from accessibility laws indefinitely as opposed to temporarily the way other classes of devices got waivers.
And color eink with fast refresh rates would be nice. Yes, I am aware that most of us just read text which is black letters on white background (well, technically it's dark gray text on light gray background) but I think that the average consumer is happier to have 16 shades of gray instead of two, and is happier with faster turning pages for a more seamless reading experience.
If the manufacturers receive the exemption, e-readers won't see any great improvements anymore, because improvements would encourage future use for ACS, which would remove the reason for exemption. And as I said before, they made it clear that they want this to be a permanent situation.
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