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Originally Posted by HarryT
I do find this type of case to be wholly without merit. Yes, it's very unfortunate to be blind, but it's not Amazon's fault that somebody is, and they are surely under no "obligation" to make the Kindle usable by blind people any more than MP3 player manufacturers are under an obligation to make their devices usable by the deaf. It's certainly not "discrimination".
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ohhhh! very good point!
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Originally Posted by badbob001
So in the mean time, how do their visually impaired students read? All their existing text books have braille versions? Or less likely, audio versions? If it's so important to them, take the money that would have been spent on kindles and pay a tutor to read the books out loud. Or boycott the publisher of the books that don't offer braille or audio versions.
Soon we'll see people boycotting GPS devices because they don't allow the visually impaired to drive...
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in my experience, universities go out of their way to accomadate special needs. one semester I broke both of my arms in a fall and had INCREDIBLE assistance in note taking and was able to dictate all of my tests and written work to a tutor. at the same school I helped a young lady who had a very strange short term memory issue. she could not remember where she parked, had to carry a map that she noted her parking location on every time, and she always had several "mentors" to make sure she got to the correct classes and was supplied with class notes. I was her history mentor for two years.
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Originally Posted by Lady Blue
 With the populace in general, and lawyers in particular, having such a propensity for litigation of every conceivable nature, it surprises me somewhat that there has not yet been a huge lawsuit over the fact that our currency is not more user-friendly to the visually impaired. Braille bills? Attachment 38847 |
you mean like how many times to fast food restaurants get gigged for not having braille intstructions at their drive-up windows?
(actually watching someone visually impaired dealing with US bank notes is fascinating and humbling)
as far as law suits of every conceivable nature... a quadraplegic fellow here was just legally awarded the right to go hunting.