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	<description>A blind photographer's exploration of his vision through photography and accessibility.</description>
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		<title>Accessibility @ Amazon: The Kindle, Audible.com &amp; a Chief Accessibility Officer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos at Amazon Does Amazon have a Chief Accessibility Officer? Someone who oversees accessibility issues across the company? It does not seem so. With Amazon at the heart of both online shopping and digital books (audio and e-books), you need a strong corporate position on accessibility. Not only is there a moral duty for this, but a fiduciary one as well. The market for accessible products is only beginning to bloom as the baby boomers stat to retire. As tech savvy customers age and their eyesight fades, there will be a strong market impetus towards offering accessibility. The first issue facing Amazon is this Kindle controversy over the Talk to Me feature. Offering this capability makes the Kindle 2 nearly the holy grail of accessible reading devices for the visually impaired. Yet, allowing the publishers to disable text to speech reduces the accessibility of the device and may lose a significant market for the Kindle. Amazon needs someone who can find solutions for this situation. Perhaps Amazon should partner with the National Library Service for the Blind to provide TTS-enabled books to qualified individuals until the publishers see that Talk to Me is in their [...]]]></description>
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