Manufacturers of ereaders seem least interested in promoting their devices among the disabled, something borne out by the recent attempts by Sony, Amazon, and Kobo to seek permanent exemption of ereaders from
the Federal Accessibility Law.
Amazon (s AMZN), Kobo and Sony (s SNE) are petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to permanently exempt e-readers from certain
federal accessibility laws for the disabled, arguing that e-readers are barebones devices designed for a single purpose: reading text.
Not exact matches
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After an explicit memoir called Schlauchgelüste (Pantyhose Cravings or, as Google Translate tells it, «Hose Lusts») provoked a legal complaint over its easy online
accessibility, Germany's
Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons (Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien) is now enforcing a
law created in 2002 to protect the youth of Deutschland from the perils of sexy media.
In my opinion, this would have been a great opportunity for the
federal government to take the lead in this area, and implement a national
law and standards regarding
accessibility.
In California, a kind of crybaby cottage industry has popped up around, of all things, the Americans with Disabilities Act — the
federal law that requires all public places to meet a minimum level of
accessibility.
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