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

  • From: "Larry Lumpkin" <llumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:40:39 -0600

Point is, if sighted children are using the kindle or whatever, blind
children should have absolutely equal access to it also.

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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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