[access-uk] Re: RNIB Right To Read campaign + a Kindle Conundrum
- From: Shaun O'Connor <capricorn8159@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:46:22 +0000
Oh don't get me started on that subject I would end up well and truly
off topic.
On 05/01/2015 14:12, Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> Whatever happened to the RNIB’s “Right To Read campaign?
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> If you click on the
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> Right to Read <http://www.rnib.org.uk/campaigning>.
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> Link on their site, it promises you that you’ll go to the campaign,
> but instead you go to a generic campaigns page…which is in itself not
> a great example of web usability.
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> Here’s one to give you food for thought:
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> I went to the Amazon site to find out whether David Blunkett’s book
> was available on Kindle. It is not, but there was a button you could
> press to “tell the publishers you’d like to read it on Kindle”. Click
> this, and Amazon will tell them you want it on Kindle. However,
> there’s no way to get them to “Tell the publishers you would like to
> listen to a speech enabled version on Kindle”. However, if the
> publishers decide they don’t want you to hear it on Kindle, they can
> forbid Amazon from speech enabling that version. My “Y O Y O Y” rant is:
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> “Why is it not as easy for a blind person to request a speech enabled
> kindle version as it is for publishers to insist that the Kindle
> edition be silent?
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> Any thoughts on the fate of Right To Read or the Kindle anomaly?
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> Best,
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> Clive
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