[vi-kindle] Re: Amazon, Why Do You Keep Burning Blind Readers?

  • From: kb7uengene <kb7uengene@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:16:52 -0600

I know what the issue is, and I also know that the kindles aren't ready for the 
classroom for any of the students, blind or sighted.

On Dec 14, 2012, at 1:06 PM, "Meka White, LMP" <meka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It doesn't matter what we had back when, or how far ahead we may or maynot 
have been.

What matters is the now.  And right now,  schools and amazon are having 
kindles which are not completely accessible in the classroom.

But I feel like at this point, you are arguing for the sake of argument, 
rather than actually wanting to know what the issue is about.


Meka



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kb7uengene" <kb7uengene@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 10:49 AM
Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: Amazon, Why Do You Keep Burning Blind Readers?


The Kindle really isn't designed for education even for people with normal 
vision, it really is just a reading device.  The iPad would get you closer 
to what you're wanting to see happen, but it still isn't really a viable 
substitute for a blindness specific notetaker or laptop.  The thing I find 
so ironic about all this when people talk about kindles and education, is 
that for years we were the ones in the classrooms with the electronic 
devices doing the notetaking, editing, reading, and referencing, of content 
all on a single device in some cases while sighted students were still using 
pen and paper and hauling around lots of heavy books to do their work.  In 
1987 when the Braille N' Speak came out, we were ahead of all these other 
students when it came down to what that device could do, and now here we are 
Complaining.

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