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Originally Posted by pilotbob
How is a sighted person "adversely affected" because the book can not be read out loud of by a screen reader?
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There is a
campaign in the UK by dyslexic groups to differentiate between visual impairment and reading impairment.
"The Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Act 2002 created a legal anomaly. The Act gave visually impaired people rights to have copyright texts converted so that they can read them, without needing to get permission from the publisher. Dyslexic people, however, although equally covered by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (D.D.A.), were not included in the 2002 Act. So you could scan a book to make an electronic version for a blind person without permission, but not for a dyslexic one. People making alternative formats for dyslexic people were breaking the law."