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Round II of the Paris Accord took place in Paris on October 23 and 24, 2009.

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    • Six Myths about the treaty for people with disabilities that should be debunked next week?
    • Text to Speech - Misc Links
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    • Tiflolibros Letter to Kareem Dale regarding WIPO treaty for disabilities
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    • Why would a government oppose a WIPO Treaty to expand access for persons with disabilities?
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Text to Speech - Misc Links

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The main coalition addressing the text to speech issue is the Reading Rights Coalition.

May 19, 2009. KEI Statement on Random House decision to turn off text to speech in ebooks.

April 10, 2009. James Love, People vs the Authors Guild, don't turn off text to speech in Kindle 2, Huffington Post.

George Kerscher and Jim Fruchterman, "The Soundproof Book: Exploration of Rights Conflict and Access to Commercial EBooks for People with Disabilities," First Monday, Volume. 7, Number 6 - 3 June 2002

Examples of Amazon's Soundproof Kindle books.

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