[access-uk] Re: Me (and George Galloway) v.s. Amazon
- From: <Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:53:30 +0000
Hello,
I'd say that for a long while, Kindle and Blackberry were in the same dark
place with accessibility, in that they did not understand that there's more to
making a device accessible than sticking a voice on something you've already
designed. A device that requires hand-to-eye co-ordination to operate it
wouldn't be any good to blind man or beast, no matter how well you made it talk.
Best,
Clive
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Edward Green
Sent: 20 November 2014 20:46
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Me (and George Galloway) v.s. Amazon
Hi Ibrahim,
Are you serous? How long did it take them to make the hardware Kindle
accessible, not to mention the Kindle apps (still no accessible one for the Mac
as far as I know)?
Cheers,
Ed
> On 20 Nov 2014, at 07:37, Ibrahim Gucukoglu <ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Hi James
>
> This is fantastic news! I know Amazon have always been committed to providing
> an accessible experience for all their customers, so this just in my mind
> reaffirms Amazon's commitment to this policy. Please let us know when and if
> this goes ahead if you have any more information. Take care and thank you for
> letting us all know.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 19 Nov 2014, at 22:03, James English <james13english@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> As some of you may know, I've been campaigning (a lot) in a one-man
>> crusade to get audio description added to video-on-demand services.
>> Well, today I received a phone call from the very helpful George
>> Galloway (whatever we may think about his political opinions) who
>> I've been talking to a lot about this, and he has managed to get me a
>> phone call with the chief operations officer of Amazon's instant video.
>> Having spoken to the American, I can now confirm that he has pledged,
>> and will be sending me this in writing (braille and print!) to
>> introduce audio description onto all of the video-on-demand services
>> that actually come out of the studio with audio description,
>> estimated at 25 % of all current titles.
>> -James
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