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The mission of the National Federation of the Blind is to achieve widespread emotional acceptance and intellectual understanding that the real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight but the misconceptions and lack of information which exist. We do this by bringing blind people together to share successes, to support each other in times of failure, and to create imaginative solutions.

Universities Will Not Deploy Kindle DX

The NFB today applauded the decision of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Syracuse University to not deploy Amazon’s Kindle DX as a means of distributing electronic textbooks to their students. The Kindle DX features text-to-speech technology that can read textbooks aloud. However, the menus of the device are not accessible to the blind. Both universities have experimented with the Kindle DX to learn whether e-book technology is useful to their students, but will not adopt the device for general use unless and until it is made accessible to blind students. For more on this, please read the official press release or the Associated Press article that was published on the topic this morning.

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