{"id":13972,"date":"2013-08-11T11:11:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T16:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13972"},"modified":"2013-08-11T11:11:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T16:11:46","slug":"ebook-vendors-argue-against-accessibility-laws-for-ebook-reading-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13972","title":{"rendered":"eBook vendors argue against accessibility laws for eBook reading devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"eBook vendors petition FCC against accessibility laws for eReaders.\" href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/14005\"><strong>Tidbits<\/strong><\/a> reports that eBook vendors <strong>Amazon<\/strong>, <strong>Kobo<\/strong>, and <strong>Sony<\/strong> are pushing for exemption from <strong>U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)<\/strong> accessibility laws that require \u201cadvanced communication services&#8221; be accessible to the disabled.<\/p>\n<p>The vendors argue that <strong>eReaders<\/strong> are limited devices designed for text displays only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tidbits reports that eBook vendors Amazon, Kobo, and Sony are pushing for exemption from U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) accessibility laws that require \u201cadvanced communication services&#8221; be accessible to the disabled. The vendors argue that eReaders are limited devices designed for text displays only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,12,15,14,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13972"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13980,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13972\/revisions\/13980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}