By Jacqui Cheng, ars technica
E-readers are becoming increasingly popular, due in part to plummeting prices and the growing availability of books in various digital formats. One area where these companies are notoriously weak, however, is accessibility—and we’re not talking about the Internet kind. One of the big strengths of digital books should be their easy support for technologies like screen reading and large print, tools that can help the visually impaired. But as it turns out, such progress has been slow and unsatisfactory for many users. The accessibility problem was highlighted when several universities recently settled a lawsuit with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and the American Council of the Blind (ACB). At issue was the schools’ plan to deploy the Kindle DX among students, thanks to accessibility limitations on the device.
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