[macvoiceover] Re: Fwd: Response for Support Ticket #102495

Greg;
Thanks for this. if every word they are writing is accurate to the best of their knowledge, it seems there is a miss understanding as you point out. perhaps if they understood: 
1. the stakes and the stakeholder community;
and:
2the legalities of the situation;
they would solve this. it is solvable technologically and worse issues than this have been dealt with for lots better technical barriers than they are presenting here. we don't scoop anything, we use it the same way anyone else does. it is no more possible to "print" from a scren reader than it is to print from any other print blocked application.
I'veforwarded this to a couple of well positioned individuals within the stakeholder community. 

Thanks!

On Aug 10, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
I got this back from Fictionwise.com the eReader people. This is the very thing I have worried about with the action of the Author's Guild in the United States.
Here we have a company claiming that screen readers are a violation of copyright, which is not the case either in the U.S. or Australia. Furthermore in the case of the Macintosh and the iPhone the screen reader is a part of the operating system and not as Fictionwise.com would suggest "another program".
It is also an interesting question if writing an application or device which deliberately inaccessible, as would seem to be the case here, as opposed to simply forgetting to include accessibility may well be illegal under civil rights laws in several nations.
At the very least Apple should not be a party to such a thing and should never approve applications which have been so crippled by deliberate act.
I have asked Fictionwise to put this statement into writing and to mail it to me. I would urge those of you who feel strongly about this issue to also contact them at support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Gregory Kearney
Manager - Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of Western Australia
61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101
Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia

Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202
Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America)
Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696
Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only)
Email: gkearney@xxxxxxxxx

Begin forwarded message:


From: "Fictionwise.com" <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11 August 2009 2:49:02 AM
To: gkearney@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Response for Support Ticket #102495

Hi,
Unfortunately, the ability to scoop the ebook's text using another application has been disabled for copyright-protection reasons.
Being able to scoop the text out, into another program, would allow for easy duplication of copyrighted materials. 

Our software cannot be used with screen-reader software.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Best Regards,

Ted
eReader.com Support Team

============================================================
You wrote:
No accessibility for the blind using VoiceOver on either Mac or iPhone. Your Macintosh and iPhone applications are not accessible to the blind using the built in screen reader on both devices. Lists of book can not be navigated and 
books once loaded can not be read. Why is this the case?

Greg Kearney
Manager -Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of Western Australia





Click on the link below to go to our homepage.
http://www.icanworkthisthing.com

Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.
http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover

Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to  
macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface at http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover 






Click on the link below to go to our homepage.
http://www.icanworkthisthing.com

Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.
http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover

Other related posts: