RE: Help with finding suitable accessible java learning material

Thanks! I'll check it out. 
 

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Hi Jay,
We have a corporate account with Safari. They were able to set up a way
to
have the visually impaired customers always view books in their HTML
view
rather than the graphically rich view. You might want to check into that
with them.

Thanks.

Jim

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Michael,
Don't know if you have checked into it but I use O'Reilly's Safari
online book service. It costs about $20 a month for up to 10 slots on
your online bookshelf but you have over 3,000 titles to choose from. I
usually have 2 or 3 different java books checked out at any given time
plus books on Service Oriented Architecture, UNIX, and several other
topics. I've found them all to be quite accessible with Jaws.


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Whapples
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 6:25 AM
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Subject: RE: Help with finding suitable accessible java learning
material

I know that there are work arounds to get plain text (or basically plain
text), and we have done that for the oracle book I needed for the oracle
stuff. The problem with that though is that any useful features which
may have been in the PDF are lost (eg. links, etc).

Thanks for the suggestion though, and I know what I might be asking
might be a lot as when I was at university studying physics getting
accessible books from publishers was difficult/impossible.

From
Michael Whapples
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 18:02 -0800, Ken Perry wrote:
>
> I think you would find no matter what its security options are you can
send
> the pdf book to either Kerswell or Open book.  You might even be able
to get
> it to convert with Jamal's PDF2txt converter that you can find on the
grab
> bag.
>
> Ken
>
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> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael
Whapples
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 2:52 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Help with finding suitable accessible java learning material
>
> Hello,
> I know that questions like this can come up quite a bit, so if answers
are
> in the list archive I am sorry about that, and could you point me
towards
> the sort of dates these answers were given (to save me searching the
entire
> archive).
>
> Basically I am going to need some books (or other suitable learning
> material) for learning java (with the intent that at the end I will be
> taking the SCJP test). I believe that the books that normally
suggested by
> those providing me with the training is the "head first" books. There
will
> also be the books for preparation for the SCJP exam itself as well.
> I would like to know if people know where an accessible version can be
got?
> What I mean by accessible is that I can read it in some form
(including
> using a screen reader). I ask this as for the oracle part of the
training
> the book that I was given in PDF was not accessible due to its
security
> options.
>
> Also if anyone has any tips that might be useful before I start to
learn
> java, please let me know. I will be mainly using Linux but could (if
> necessary) use a windows machine.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Michael Whapples
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