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Amazon Kindle Blind-Sided by the Blind

Posted by Editor on Jan 14, 2010 in Amazon Kindle, Tablets

Amazon and the U.S. Department of Justice recently settled a civil suit brought on by a number of blind person’s rights organizations over pilot projects to use the Kindle DX as a reader device in universities. The underlying issue for the blind is that although the Kindle has a text to speech feature which can read books aloud, the standard menu and navigation of the device is impossible for a non-sighted person to use. Also, that the universities intended to essentially replace traditional textbooks in the classrooms with the device. Did Amazon get caught in the middle?