Text to speech feature on Kindle 2 limited - in many ways

My friend Steve over at Planet of the Blind posted about the inaccessibility of the Kindle 2 today.


And now news comes from Pitt Rehab that Amazon has caved on the text to speech feature, allowing permission for individual book titles to be withdrawn for its use.

Never mind that, for some, this is the use for which they bought the Kindle 2 on good faith and the only way some can read. What about Amazon's responsibilities toward readers with disabilities who planned to use the Kindle 2 for its text to speech features?

Shame on them.