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How many DAISY ebooks have you come across, that adhere to either DAISY1, or DAISY2, or DAISY3 specifications?
99.999999% of the time, DAISY is used as nothing more than a container format for either audio files, or HTML files. Usually very poor quality renderings, at that. |
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Which was the point. Separate but equal is always unequal which is why the accessibility laws are so draconian. |
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Audible files their response (via Ars Technica):
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...-are-fair-use/ Sure enough, they're relying on the Betamax line of precedents: Quote:
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Hmmm... reminds of that idiot who was upset with the Crane library at UBC since most of their Braille books did not have standard text printed on the pages. That knife cuts both ways.
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But then, too many people with normal vision have trouble aiming. Like the gentleman in northern BC who shot in the direction of children playing in their yard. His lawyer tried to argue that their parents knowing it was hunting season should not have allowed the children to play outside. On a more serious note, you really want to be in the woods when someone who is legally blind is hunting? It's going to be a trifle hard to hunt while wearing that loud fluorescent outfit and carrying a boombox. Unless of course that is what attracts your choosen prey. |
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Especially among politicians. The rest of us have to live with the result of their deeds, like it or not. Fairness or common sense doesn't factor into it. If it says everything, it means everything. ADA is all-encompassing: no exceptions. Once it's invoked it's unstoppable which is probably why Audible is relying on fair use. They would rather have the option of doing captions or not than be forced to do so (along with *every* audiobook vendor). As an option it's a competitive advantage but if everybody has to do it it isn't. Last edited by fjtorres; 09-24-2019 at 08:41 AM. |
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If you need to read the words, buy the eBook and read along with the audiobook.
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I wish they would ship the feature already. I’ve been waiting for Amazon to implement Word Runner in the iOS Kindle app, so this would sort of be that: turn off the audio, and crank up the speed to 3.5x!
I probably would not use it much but I want to try it out. |
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Accessibility is mandatory, even on the internet.(?)
It's being litigated right now, heading to the SCOTUS: https://www.cnet.com/news/why-the-fa...izza-lawsuit/# Quote:
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https://www.cnet.com/tech-enabled/ The heart of this dispute is the "reasonable accomodation" clause. In this case, whether requiring the disabled to use the phone instead of the website (buy a different product, effectively) is a reasonable answer to ADA requirements. In this particular case, domino's has web only deals they will *not* honor by phone. This is not uncommon. The appeal has a variety of possible outcomes: - SCOTUS could refuse the case and let the Appeals court ruling stand - SCOTUS could overturn the ruling totally (possible, since the 9th Circuit is the most overturned court) and say ADA doesn't appeal online since the web didn't exist when tbe law was passed. - SCOTUS could overturn the law saying ADA doesn't apply online but that not honoring online deals by phone is discriminatory and that all channels must honor the same deals.(Which would affect everybody with multiple storefronts, online, phone, fax, and B&M.) The last is least likely, the first most likely. We'll see soon enough. Either way, lots of lawsuits are incoming... |
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Generally, blind people don't shoot long guns. Regardless, the target has a beeper, that the shooter can focus on. ##### I don't know if it was the specific range, or the usual practice, but before anybody could should at that range, they had to pass a safety course. Included in that course were: * Field stripping and cleaning your weapon; * Close range disarming of attackers with guns; * How not to be disarmed; * Basic First Aid; * Bullet extraction and cleaning of gunshot wounds; All of that, before you were allowed to fire anything. |
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