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anne fleming · 02-11-2009, 02:30 AM

What's interesting to me, is this kind of tech was originally developed for the blind - to give disabled people access to written material. Clearly, this isn't the way Amazon is marketing the tool, but I think they could make an argument that their tech is much closer to a translation for the sight-impaired, than it is a dramatization like that intended in an audiobook format. Amazon might argue that using DRM to block this kind of tech might imperil access to the disabled accross all kinds of written reasources.

02-11-2009, 02:30 AM	#21
anne fleming Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: kindle	ADA Issues? What's interesting to me, is this kind of tech was originally developed for the blind - to give disabled people access to written material. Clearly, this isn't the way Amazon is marketing the tool, but I think they could make an argument that their tech is much closer to a translation for the sight-impaired, than it is a dramatization like that intended in an audiobook format. Amazon might argue that using DRM to block this kind of tech might imperil access to the disabled accross all kinds of written reasources.