Ann, The url you posted below does not work for the full story. Am I missing something? Keith On 07:45 PM, Ann Parsons wrote: Content-Description: forwarded message > From: Prof Norm Coombs <nrcgsh at RIT.EDU> > Subject: Bridging the Gap Between the ADA and the DMCA > > This might turn out to be very significant regarding disability > accessibility to information technology! > > There has been an unpleasant conflict growing between laws guaranteeing > people with disabilities the right to have access to information and the > Digital Millenium Copyright Act which aimed to protect the rights of > authors and publishers. It seemed that this act may seriously undercut > what we thought we had gained in the ADA and other legal provisions. But > here is what looks like good news. > > In the original Digital Millenium Copyright Act, (DMCA), the Library of > Congress > has the ability to make exemptions to provisions of this act. Cracking > encryption can be permitted in certain specified situations. They just > announced the first exemptions, and it includes cracking e-books for > accessibility > reasons. > > Here's the specific language > > Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook > editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by > authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling of > the ebook's read-aloud function and that prevent the enabling of screen > readers to render the text into a specialized format. > > For the full story, see http//www.copyright.gov/1201/ > > ***** Check out EASI's November short hour-long web conference clinics: > http://easi.cc/clinic.htm > and month-long November courses: > Barrier-free E-learning http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm > Accessible Internet Multimedia http://easi.cc/workshops/mmedia.htm > > Students and professionals have the same right to access information > technology as does anyone else! > > ------------------------------ > EASI's November, month-long online courses: > Barrier-free E-learning: http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm > Accessible Internet Multimedia: http://easi.cc/workshops/mmedia.htm > (a package of five courses will earn the Certificate in Accessible > Information Technology) > http://easi.cc/workshop.htm > > Norman Coombs, Ph.D. > CEO EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) > 22196 Caminito Tasquillo > Laguna Hills CA 92653 > home: (949) 855-4852 > Cell: (949) 922-5992 > E-mail: nrcgsh at rit.edu > http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh > > ----------------------- > Check out EASI's New Synchronous Clinics: > http://easi.cc/clinic.htm > > EASI Home Page http://www.rit.edu/~easi > Online Courses and Clinics http://easi.cc/workshop.htm > To sign off this list > send e-mail to listserv at maelstrom.stjohns.edu saying > signoff itd-jnl Content-Description: .signature > > -- > Ann K. Parsons > email: akp at eznet.net > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Keith Watson kwatson at smed.yi.org Among the major impediments to discovery are not the ignorant but those with illusions of knowledge. - B. Alan Wallace
