About The Reading Rights Coalition
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The Reading Rights Coalition is a collaborative effort by 27 30 nationally recognized organizations that represent those who can not read print. The member organizations of the Reading Rights Coalition believe access to the written word is the cornerstone of education and democracy; and that new technologies must SERVE individuals with disabilities, NOT impede them. Therefore the member organizations, as listed below, protest the threatened removal of the text-to-speech function from e-books for the Amazon Kindle 2.
Millions of people with print disabilities have been using text-to-speech to read for years; most people are unaware of how we read and access information. Many have not considered what e-books on an accessible device means to us – the ability to buy and read books for the first time in history on an equal basis with everyone else.
- Background on how the controversy about text-to-speech on the Kindle arose
- The Reading Rights Coalition: What We Believe
