Schools shun Kindle, saying blind can't use it
From: ECN Magazine - 11/11/2009

Amazon's Kindle can read books aloud, but if you're blind it can be difficult
to turn that function on without help. Now two universities say they will
shun the device until Amazon changes the setup. 

The National Federation of the Blind planned to announce Wednesday that the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and Syracuse University in New York won't
consider big rollouts of the electronic reading device unless Amazon makes it
more accessible to visually impaired students. 

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http://ecnmag.com/news-schoolds-shun-kindle-111109.aspx?menuid=0

Links:
Universities Will Not Deploy Kindle DX as Textbook Reader
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/universities-will-not-deploy-kindle-dx-as-textbook-reader-69765857.html

NFB
http://www.nfb.org/nfb/default.asp?SnID=795184988

Kindle DX at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015TCML0?ie=UTF8&tag=zaggy-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0015TCML0