The Kindle AND Jargon

via the Twitterverse, an old article about the Kindle, one of RantWoman's very favoritest rant themes and accessibility and the attitudes of many in RantWoman's and others' experiences.

http://www.planet-of-the-blind.com/2009/07/higher-educations-studied-indifference-to-people-with-disabilities-reflects-the-rehab-model-ad-nauseum.html

Special jargon alert: this post is replete with some academic usage the meaning of which almost emerges from the context. "Almost" means RantWoman notes the usage of the term "rehabilitation model" and RantWoman cautions that the term probably has other nuances when used by actual practitioners rather than what is referred to here, which RantWoman would characterize as "Let George do it." Let someone else figure out accessibility. Make excuses all over the place. Do not build the need for accessibility into requirements. Do not take into account that many people, not just people with disabilities benefit from multiple learning modalities, multiple ways to interact with information.

But there, RantWoman is really starting to rant.

In partial defense of the Kindle, RantWoman saw an article recently, she wishes she had bookmarked, about how the Kindle could save college students A LOT on textbooks. RantWoman can relate. On the other hand, this global savings makes it all the more infuriating that full accessibility was not built into the Kindle from the beginning.

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