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Originally Posted by darryl
Interesting that hardware like KIndle's is not included in the deal. Does this get Amazon off the hook, at least for a while, on accessibility? Presumably it seems students will be able to read on Android tablets and other devices. In this case Amazon only needs to provide acceptable accessibility features in its software. Mind you, it does make sense for Amazon to make its Kindle's and Fire's as accessible as possible, and I'm sure they will be working on this. But I'd say that it has bought some time and allowed this contract to proceed. I suspect Amazon will want to make its hardware part of the next deal!
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Android tablets are also touch devices, so even if this gets Amazon off the hook, unless there are a lot of Kindle Keyboards available, students with coordination problems are going to have to use regular computers to read the books.
And the tablets I've tried do not work well with external controllers. Having to start using the touchscreen, having to link using both devices and some fancy two-handed coordination, finding that you can't input text while using the controller, etc. it's hopeless.
And the tablets I've tried all have painfully bright screens, though polarized privacy filters might help.
Ada standards are worse than worthless for sensory processing issues. I think they require incapacitatingly loud and incapacitating bright strobing alarms.