{"id":1760,"date":"2007-11-20T19:52:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T19:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2007-11-20T19:52:03","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T19:52:03","slug":"feeling_left_ou_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Left Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I caught Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, on <i>Charlie Rose<\/i> last night (in the wake of the writers&#8217; strike, Rose has replaced my nightly dose of <i>Letterman<\/i> before bed). He was pitching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FI73MA\/ref=amb_link_5873612_2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&amp;pf_rd_r=0WJ8PF1GRN9FEYPNHTXY&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=329252801&amp;pf_rd_i=507846\">Kindle<\/a>, Amazon&#8217;s new e-book reader. The device has received <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/ebooks\/comparing-amazon-kindle-to-e+book-readers-of-yesterday-and-tomorrow-325037.php\">mixed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.boingboing.net\/2007\/11\/19\/amazon-kindle-ebook-1.html\">reviews<\/a> in the gadget press, but one thing keeps bugging me. People with disabilities are a natural consumer market for e-book readers, but Amazon and other hardware manufacturers have shown zero interest in even exploring the needs of readers with disabilities. I recognize that these companies are in business to make a profit and I&#8217;m not expecting them to cater to a niche population, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m asking for the moon, either. Lots of really brilliant people are working on these readers and I&#8217;m fairly certain they can figure out how to include switch access, voice recognition, or text-to-speech capabilities. And, as with most accessible technologies, the average consumer might find them useful as well. <\/p>\n<p>Sooner or later, a reading device will come along that has universal design elements built into it and I&#8217;ll eagerly give that company my hard-earned cash. The wait is getting frustrating, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, on Charlie Rose last night (in the wake of the writers&#8217; strike, Rose has replaced my nightly dose of Letterman before bed). He was pitching Kindle, Amazon&#8217;s new e-book reader. The device has received mixed reviews in the gadget press, but one thing keeps bugging me. People with <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1760' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-so","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}