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Old 06-26-2009, 11:53 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
The law allows businesses to not market to the blind; it doesn't allow for schools that receive federal funding to discriminate against blind students by making some course materials (ebook readers, here) only available or useful to sighted students.
OK, but if the course materials are made available to the blind student(s) -- again, in braille, an audio format or a file accessible with a PC -- then it stands to reason that there is no discrimination.

I.e. unless students will be graded on their ability to manipulate an e-book reader, the "course materials" is not the e-book reader itself but the content. That would have to be provided to a blind student in a timely fashion anyway.

Plus, it's not like TTS is a brand new technology that Amazon invented from whole cloth. Apple has included a "speech" function that could read text aloud since the 1990's.
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