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Schools Slam Kindle Over Blind Access Failure

Posted in: Technology News by admin on November 11, 2009


Amazon’s Kindle can read books aloud, but if you’re blind it can be difficult to turn that function on without help. Now two universities say they will shun the device until Amazon changes the setup. The National Federation of the Blind planned to announce Wednesday that the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Syracuse University in New York won’t consider big rollouts of the electronic reading device unless Amazon makes it more accessible to visually impaired students.

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