US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students 492
angry tapir writes "Three US universities will stop promoting the use of Amazon.com's Kindle DX e-book reader in classrooms after complaints that the device doesn't give blind students equal access to information. Settlements with Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Pace University in New York City and Reed College in Portland, Oregon, were announced Wednesday by the US Department of Justice. The National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind had complained that use of the Kindle devices discriminates against students with vision problems."
Re:Amazon should love this precedent (Score:5, Funny)
It's a viscous cycle.
What does liquid resistance have to do with it?
Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. (Score:3, Funny)
Let's take this to it's logical extreme (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Lowest Common Denominator mentality (Score:2, Funny)
Wait. Sighted people can see. That puts blind people at an unfair disadvantage. So all the sighted people should poke their eyes out with knitting needles to make life fair, right?
Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. (Score:5, Funny)
As far as I can tell, the only way a Kindle can hurt a blind person in the classroom is if somebody throws one at his head.
Re:Lowest Common Denominator mentality (Score:3, Funny)
And you clearly cannot spell. Perhaps we should drink until we are brain damaged :)
Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. (Score:5, Funny)
When I was at university, these were called professors. I kid you not. I had more than 1 professor who simply read to us from the textbook. They couldn't have taught a rock to just sit there, but they brought in the grant money, so they stayed.
Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. (Score:5, Funny)
(sorry)
Re:your highest achievable standard.,.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. (Score:2, Funny)
In Sweden, they just kill all the smartest kindergartners.