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The blind and non-English speakers are most definately *NOT* at the same level of disadvantage. First, as you yourself pointed out, a non-English speaker can learn the English language. A blind person cannot learn to see. This is a huge difference -- fat man walking across a parking lot huge.
However, in terms of reading a book there is another difference between a non-English speaker and the blind. There is a financial incentive to produce books for non-English speakers. Over a billion people speak Chinese so this is a huge market that offers authors and publishers the promise of significant financial gain. The market of books for the blind on the other hand is not so lucrative. In fact, producing books for the blind is almost certainly a money losing prospect, and producing these books is almost always an act of charity, which is kind of the whole point of the exemption.
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