[access-uk] Re: RNIB Right To Read campaign + a Kindle Conundrum
- From: <Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 15:57:57 +0000
Hello Derek,
What I'm hering is: If it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Best,
Clive
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Derek Hornby
Sent: 05 January 2015 15:36
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: RNIB Right To Read campaign + a Kindle Conundrum
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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Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx
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out-of-date stats and info on their website?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
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian
Macrae
Sent: 05 January 2015 14:28
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.
Ian Macrae
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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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