Thread: Universities say no more Kindles till blind students can use it.....
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Old 11-13-2009, 01:33 PM   #74
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Originally Posted by Daithi View Post
Even if it was a course requirement, I don't see where that makes any difference from what happens now. If a course requirement is for a hardcover textbook, and a blind student takes the course then the blind student gets a brail version of the book. If the school is using the Kindle DX with a required ebook then the blind student gets a brail version. There is no difference.

Now if the school was requiring the blind student to buy a Kindle in addition to the brail book then there would be something to complain about, but that is not what is being argued here.
The only difference would be if the Kindle version of the book in question was the only version available I guess.

But that's still not much different than using a hardcover book that has no braille version available. The school still has to make a braille or audio version for the student in either case.
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