{"id":224,"date":"2012-09-23T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T14:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2014-10-23T13:40:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T17:40:26","slug":"drm-and-visual-impairment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/drm-and-visual-impairment\/","title":{"rendered":"DRM and Visual Impairment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was happy to discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rupertgoodwins.com\" title=\"Rupert Goodwin's Blog\" target=\"_blank\">Rupert Goodwin&#8217;s blog<\/a> today, thanks to Cory&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/09\/22\/how-drm-screws-people-with-vis.html\" title=\"DRM Screws the Visually-Impaired\" target=\"_blank\">post on BB<\/a> about the terrible situation that the visually-impaired have with DRM on ebooks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say that for at least the next 25 years or so, our best bet is on improved machine assistance rather than a biological solution, so things such as DRM really cause an undue hindrance to folks who just want to read a book. I&#8217;m hoping DRM will meet the Americans with Disabilities Act in court and get its ass kicked someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was happy to discover Rupert Goodwin&#8217;s blog today, thanks to Cory&#8217;s post on BB about the terrible situation that the visually-impaired have with DRM on ebooks. I&#8217;d say that for at least the next 25 years or so, our best bet is on improved machine assistance rather than a biological solution, so things such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}