[accessibleimage] Google Book Search discussion

In an article on the DAISY Consortium's website about Google Books new accessibility George Kerscher discusses improvements, two of which are tactile graphics and descriptions "By this Raman may mean that the OCR recognition approaches will be improved by Google and the errors will be corrected through an automated process. I agree that there will be the ongoing need for the alternative versions that have figure descriptions, tactile graphics and the other important enhancements that the libraries serving the blind provides." First Step in Adding Accessibility to Google Books - Was It Enough? by George Kerscher 
http://www.daisy.org/news/default.asp
Google Book Search
http://books.google.com/
from the Google Book Search blog
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/?utm_source=gbssite&utm_campaign=gbsblog&utm_medium=et
Today we launched a new feature for Book Search to help more people access the world's great public domain works <http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/download-classics.html>. Whenever you find an out-of-copyright book in our index, you'll see a "View plain text" link, which lets anyone access the text layer <http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA7&id=myYaas-8LYoC&output=text> of the book. As Dr. T.V. Raman explains <http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/ever-more-books-to-read.html> on the main Google blog, this opens the book to adaptive technologies such as screen readers and Braille display, allowing visually impaired users to read these books just as easily as users with sight.
This is an exciting step for us in our mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. To learn more about Google's efforts to make books and other digitized content more accessible to everyone, check out Dr. Raman's full post <http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/ever-more-books-to-read.html>. 

Regards,
Lisa

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