PaidContent reports that the Kindle Mobile Learning Initiative that
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Amazon's Jeff Bezos were supposed
to announce today was postponed. The State Department says that the
reason is Clinton's schedule at the G-20 Mexico summit and
the Rio+20 conference later this week. However, the State Department
knew about those events for many months and scheduled the Kindle press
conference anyway, so it's likely that there's another reason for the
postponement.
The National Federation for the Blind sent a letter to Secretary Clinton on June 18th that said that “any agreement by the United States to
procure inaccessible Kindle, or other, e-readers is a violation of the
law, including
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.” That could be a
reason for the decision to postpone the event.
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