[access-uk] Re: RNIB Right To Read campaign + a Kindle Conundrum
- From: "Derek Hornby" <derek.hornby_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 15:35:34 -0000
Hi Clive
I think RNIB needs to set a good example, before it tells
other organisations what they should be doing.
Just consider what has happened to the Talking News papers service
since RNIB took over!
So to keep on topic (technical issues) I truly
do not understand why changes were made.
Change, is fine if it means an improved service,
but we have not ended up with improved service,
and there was no need to make changes.
Regards, Derdek
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Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 3:19 PM
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: RNIB Right To Read campaign + a Kindle
Conundrum
Hello Ian,
Yes, I rember your saying you got Jeremy #Vine to lean on his
publishers. It would be somewhat ironic if DB found that his
publishers had withheld speech from his own book.
More generally, whatever did happen to RNIB right to read? Have they
ditched it? I'd hate to think that they have, or that if they have,
they've left out-of-date stats and info on their website? I saw
figures relating to the percentage of books available to the public
at large which were accessible to blind people, followed by a link to
the 'Right To Read' campaign which took me to the page that didn't do
what it said on the proverbial tin.
Best,
Clive
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Sent: 05 January 2015 14:28
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: RNIB Right To Read campaign + a Kindle
Conundrum
When I discovered that Jeremy Vine's book had not been speech enabled,
I got him to put the arm on the publisher to make it so. Perhaps DB
could be persuaded to do the same. I realise that this is a piecemeal
approach to a general problem. And, of course, the whole publishers'
refusal thing collapses round their ears when a book is bought on the
app and read by the device's own TTS.
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On 5 Jan 2015, at 14:12, Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello all,
Whatever happened to the RNIB's "Right To Read campaign?
If you click on the
Right to Read <http://www.rnib.org.uk/campaigning> .
Link on their site, it promises you that you'll go to the
campaign, but instead you go to a generic campaigns page.which is in
itself not a great example of web usability.
Here's one to give you food for thought:
I went to the Amazon site to find out whether David Blunkett's
book was available on Kindle. It is not, but there was a button you
could press to "tell the publishers you'd like to read it on Kindle".
Click this, and Amazon will tell them you want it on Kindle. However,
there's no way to get them to "Tell the publishers you would like to
listen to a speech enabled version on Kindle". However, if the
publishers decide they don't want you to hear it on Kindle, they can
forbid Amazon from speech enabling that version. My "Y O Y O Y" rant
is:
"Why is it not as easy for a blind person to request a speech
enabled kindle version as it is for publishers to insist that the
Kindle edition be silent?
Any thoughts on the fate of Right To Read or the Kindle
anomaly?
Best,
Clive
Clive Lever
Diversity and Equality Officer
Kent County Council
Office: 03000 416388
Email: clive.lever@xxxxxxxxxxx
Kent County Council
Room G37
Sessions House
Maidstone, Kent.
ME14 1XQ
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