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English Course in Audio-Braille Format for Blind

Adding an alternative accessible version just for blind people is discriminatory. According to accessibility guidelines - and common sense - alternative access for people with disabilities should only be used when there is no other way to make web content accessible. Besides, access to the text version would also simplify life for scholars - and for people using portable devices with a small screen: text can be resized far better than a puzzle of images with fixed width and height

In short, while "kids" with brains that are hard-wired for written language may get a kick out of learning phonetic transcription tricks, I submit that synthetic phonetic devices such as Truespel, Shavian, etc., are devastatingly confusing and counter-productive for dyslexic or other language-disabled individuals or for second language learners.

Amazon has announced that it will give authors and publishers the ability to disable the text-to-speech function on any or all of their e-books available for the Kindle 2. The Reading Rights Coalition, which represents people who cannot read print, will protest the threatened removal of the text-to-speech function from e-books for the Amazon Kindle 2 outside the Authors Guild headquarters in New York City at 31 East 32nd