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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Daithi - So it's acceptable for there to be a course which requires the Kindle, and which thus requires frequent aid from a sighted person to the blind person to handle the reading which, in the normal course of events, they could handle themselves on a PC?
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I do think blind people should be accomodated where possible, however I think it is a little strange to toss out the Kindle simply because it wasn't designed for blind students. Providing the blind student with a brail version of textbooks seems like a reasonable accomodation. Afterall, if you ban the Kindle and go back to paper textbooks then you're still in the exact same position -- blind people still can't read the paper textbook and need to be accomodated with a special version of the book.
On the other topic you mentioned, about 3rd parties having the right to produce versions of books for the blind when the publisher won't do it, well, there I agree with you completely. This is an important law and it is a shame that publishers are trying to get this law removed from an international treaty. We had a pretty lively discussion on this topic a few months back.
BTW, I have a son that is dyslexic, so I know the kind of affect it has on a kid's life.