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Thanks  to Ron Graham from the AccessAbility Blog for giving RMM a shoutout!   He pointed us to a blog post by Marcus over at Engel’s Ensights titled Pardon My Geekiness.   Ok, first, a lesson to all, never ever apologize for your geekiness! I don’t care what kind of Geek you are, it’s all [...]

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I received the below email from the Author’s Guild in response to the Reading Rights Coalition protest held yesterday in NYC. Based on their statement it  still appears that the definition of audio rights will have to first be agreed upon. As someone who has been reading both books using TTS and audio narration, I [...]

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This was one of the slogans chanted during Tuesday’s protest  organized by the Reading Rights Coalition. The demonstration, held  outside of the NYC office of The Author’s Guild, seemed to be well attended both in person and virtually. Thanks to Mika Pyykhala and John Oliveira of the Association of Blind Citizens for streaming the event. [...]

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I just signed the petition started by the  Reading Rights Coalition.   This organization began after Amazon released their latest version of their E-Book reader, the Kindle 2.0. The product which has built in Text to Speech has been attacked by the Author’s Guild. The Guild argues that this feature which uses synthetic speech to [...]

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Amazon announced that they will now modify the Kindle to allow the holder of the copyright to turn on/off the Text To Speech (TTS) functionality.   I thought I would put this in plain English, well sort of…   Amazon got Punked!   Now I don’t have any inside information so this is entirely speculative. [...]

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Let me first say, I believe every consumer electronic product should be made accessible for all. No one community should be relegated to a specific brand or device based on a characteristic. There should not be computers, mp3 players or microwaves “for the blind.” These products and others should simply be universally designed with all [...]

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For quite some time now I have been reading and listening to various Tech blogs and podcasts talking about Twitter. The conversation seems to focus on how Twitter can be used for various purposes.   I decided to try it after listening to a SeroTalk podcast on social media. I think I have a way [...]

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ABC’s "What Would You Do?" aired a segment on accessible currency. As a way to bring attention to the difficulties US currency presents to people who are blind, the producers decided to stage a store clerk purposely cheating two separate customers who were blind. The question, "What would you do?" applied to both, would you [...]

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When I was first introduced to screen readers a little less than five years ago, I had the impression that Freedom Scientifics’ JAWS was the only game in town. It wasn’t until I began feeling comfortable using the technology and made my way back on the web, that I realized there were other solutions available. [...]

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You’ll rarely catch me without my sweet Vicky AKA my Victor Reader Stream. I changed the otherwise masculine named device to a more feminine based on my strong feelings for her. Last week, Vicky and I expanded our relationship a bit. We tried a little experimentation, you know, just to keep things interesting.I brought Vicky [...]

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