But as long as the interface of the Kindle DX is inaccessible to the blind —
denying blind students access to electronic textbooks or the advanced features available to read and annotate them — it is our position that no university should consider this device to be a viable e-book solution for its students.»
Eight decades after Nemeth's college days, the University World News reports that Argyris Koumtzis, a top
student and winner of math and physics prizes who is
blind, was at first
denied admittance into the physics program at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.