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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009Amazon will soon make available the latest generation of Kindle, a wireless reading device. What makes Kindle 2 of interest to persons with visual and reading disabilities is the Read-to-Me feature. With the new Text-to-Speech feature, Kindle claims to be able to read every book, blog, magazine, newspaper, and personal documents out loud. Other features include male and female voices which can be sped […]
RFB&D Free AudioAccess Memberships
Friday, February 6th, 2009Beginning on January 26, 2009 through January 25, 2010, any student with a qualified learning or print disability in the U. S. can sign up for 12 months of free access to RFB&D’s CV Starr Learning Through Listening Library of more than 46,000 textbooks and literature titles, via Internet download. The offer, in celebration of […]
2008 Nominations for Network Library Award
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) is calling for nominations for the 2008 Network Library of the Year Award. The awards commend excellence, innovation, and special achievement in providing library service to blind and physically handicapped individuals in a calendar year. NLS network regional (talking book) libraries may be nominated […]
Google Engineer Helps Visually Impaired
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009T.V.Raman, a blind computer scientist and engineer at Google, “is a leading thinker on accessibility issues”, says Paul Schroeder from the American Foundation for the Blind. He designs and alters technology by asking the question, “How should something work when the user is not looking at the screen?” He developed a search engine that encourages preferences to […]
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