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LITCHARTS is Screen Reader Accessible

digitaltext wrote 1 month ago: LITCHARTS aren’t just the newest series of literature guides on the web. They’re also the fastest, s … more →

Tags: Accessibility, screen readers, speech to text, Study Skills, free electronic text, text to speech

Amazon, meet 1984. 1984, meet Amazon.

dalesniaski wrote 4 months ago: From the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Not surprisingly, Amazon’s recent deletion of George Orwell … more →

Tags: Intellectual Property/Copyright, technology, Publishing Industry, kindle, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Amazon, 1984, Nicholson Baker, Reading

RFB&D Free Audio Access Membership until January 20, 2010

digitaltext wrote 6 months ago: RFB&D logo If you already are a member of Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic, you probably are a … more →

Tags: Accessibility, audio books, etextbooks, Daisy, Digital Textbooks, Landmark_College, Print_disability, rfbd

Library of Congress with UNESCO Launches a World Digital Library

digitaltext wrote 8 months ago: The Library of Congress in cooperation with UNESCO launched the World Digital Library today which gi … more →

Tags: creating digital textbooks, Faculty Resources, Accessibility

GOVERNOR LAUNCHES "VIRGINIA ON ITUNES U", ISSUES MATH-APPLICATIONS CHALLENGE

digitaltext wrote 8 months ago: This morning, I saw this news release and was excited by Virginia’s Department of Education vi … more →

Tags: Assistive Technology, Faculty Resources, etextbooks, Accessibility, open a

CourseSmart and Section 508 Compliance

digitaltext wrote 9 months ago: I was pleased to see that CourseSmart has acknowledged the issue of  the inaccessibility of their e- … more →

Tags: creating digital textbooks, Faculty Resources, Publisher digital request for, etextbooks, Accessibility, open access, open, CourseSmart, publishers digital requests

SPARC announces Open Access Week 2009

digitaltext wrote 9 months ago: I was excited when I read  this post this morning and wanted to share it. http://www.arl.org/sparc/m … more →

Tags: text to speech, screen readers, creating digital textbooks, Faculty Resources, etextbooks, Accessibility, Kurzweil, text_readers, Digital Textbooks

The Death of Typography8 comments

Steven Harris wrote 9 months ago: I’ve been mulling this topic over for some time now. I thought if:book might have scooped me t … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Books, E-Books, technology, Sony Reader, eBooks, Reading, kindle, iPhone

Comments, questions on NPR's "Paper Cut: Missouri College Embraces E-Textbooks1 comment

digitaltext wrote 9 months ago: Yesterday, several people asked me if I had heard a news story on NPR reported from station KCUR in … more →

Tags: screen readers, etextbooks, Accessibility

News from Bookshare.org

digitaltext wrote 11 months ago: New Bookshare Final Announcement More accessible, easier to use, more books than ever Dear Bookshare … more →

Tags: Accessibility, assistive_Technology, Bookshare.org, Read:Outloud, eBooks

Bookshare and Don Johnston

digitaltext wrote 1 year ago: CBrown wrote:                                     Bookshare.org and Read:OutLoud by Don Johnson Last … more →

Tags: text to speech, screen readers, Assistive Technology, etextbooks, text_readers, Bookshare.org, Read:Outloud, screen_readers, eBooks

List of Publisher Digital Requests Links1 comment

digitaltext wrote 1 year ago: I had sent out an email plea for help in requesting digital copies from publishers in a timely fashi … more →

Tags: text to speech, Assistive Technology, etextbooks, Kurzweil, Publisher digital request for, Landmark_College, Digital Textbooks

Two More Sources for Obtaining Digital College Textbooks: textbook.com and WW Norton.com

digitaltext wrote 1 year ago: Actually finding a digital textbook is finally becoming an obtainable goal that doesn’t take longer … more →

Tags: screen readers, Assistive Technology, etextbooks, Landmark_College

Publishing Companies Making Digital TextBooks Available

digitaltext wrote 1 year ago: 4. If you want a digital copy of your book, and you don’t need it to be in Kurzweil format, you can … more →

Tags: etextbooks, assistive_Technology, Landmark_College

Another Faculty Resource for Custom Etextbooks

digitaltext wrote 1 year ago: I didn’t know about this service from McGraw Hill when I posted a piece about faculty creating … more →

Tags: Faculty Resources, etextbooks

Great Resource; Often Overlooked - Kurzweil 3000 Classic Literature CD

digitaltext wrote 1 year ago: Included in every software bundle of Kurzweil 3000 is an incredible resource; a CD of classic litera … more →

Tags: Kurzweil, Classic Literature CD

What word goes with bachelor? Collocation & Reveries of a Bachelor

Lisa Spiro wrote 1 year ago: I was curious about what words would occur frequently in relation with “bachelor” in Don … more →

Tags: text analysis


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