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Dulin's Books · 06-30-2010, 08:24 PM

did some googling. it still amazes me sometimes how easy it is to fidn things nowadays.

first i found this ASU article from last year about the "upcoming" kidle test

http://uto.asu.edu/blog/2009/05/06/p...us-the-kindle/

read response 16.

I google the person who wrote response 16

found his blog with reports about the suit and himself being interviewed

http://blindaccessjournal.com/?p=900

and found reports of the settlement from the NFB abotu the lawsuit

http://www.nfb.org/nfb/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=449

and read the settlement PRs .

From reading all of this I see a person who filed a lawsuit to stop a program that hadn't even started and that hadn't done him any wrong- his suit was based on possible future harm. he may not have even taken the class that the Kindles were going to be tested in.

the settlement had no monetary exchange and no admittance of wrongdoing on the part of the University. Amazon and the universities committed to what they were already committed to- working on making it accessible for all in the future. without this test they wouldn't have known how or what to do.

This student could have just asked to be part of the group evaluating the program and offered his help to everything more accessible to other blind students.

instead he chose to follow his knee jerk reaction from the original ASU blog post and file a suit. the suit caused the program to cease which may actually make it take longer to find the right ways to go because ASU and others will be reluctant to test things in the future.

06-30-2010, 08:24 PM	#26
Dulin's Books Wizard Posts: 2,806 Karma: 13500000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Portland, OR Device: Boox PB360 etc etc etc	did some googling. it still amazes me sometimes how easy it is to fidn things nowadays. first i found this ASU article from last year about the "upcoming" kidle test http://uto.asu.edu/blog/2009/05/06/p...us-the-kindle/ read response 16. I google the person who wrote response 16 found his blog with reports about the suit and himself being interviewed http://blindaccessjournal.com/?p=900 and found reports of the settlement from the NFB abotu the lawsuit http://www.nfb.org/nfb/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=449 and read the settlement PRs . From reading all of this I see a person who filed a lawsuit to stop a program that hadn't even started and that hadn't done him any wrong- his suit was based on possible future harm. he may not have even taken the class that the Kindles were going to be tested in. the settlement had no monetary exchange and no admittance of wrongdoing on the part of the University. Amazon and the universities committed to what they were already committed to- working on making it accessible for all in the future. without this test they wouldn't have known how or what to do. This student could have just asked to be part of the group evaluating the program and offered his help to everything more accessible to other blind students. instead he chose to follow his knee jerk reaction from the original ASU blog post and file a suit. the suit caused the program to cease which may actually make it take longer to find the right ways to go because ASU and others will be reluctant to test things in the future.