When I heard the word “readable” in the following quote from the Personal Democracy Forum, I immediately read into it “accessible” for blind readers. Via Eric Kuhn: TwitNotes from #PDF09:
Andrew Rasiej: Public should be redefined as being searchable and readable on-line. In a connected society we need to redefine “public” in an open framework. We have a right to be re-defined in the content in the technologies we have today.
About the context:
Over 1,000 people earlier this week descended upon the Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall in the Time Warner building in Midtown Manhattan for the annual Personal Democracy Forum. A who’s who in the fields of government, technology, and media, the conference focused on how technology and the Internet can create a stronger democracy.
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