[bksvol-discuss] Bookshare's population
- From: juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 21:10:14 -0500 (EST)
Hey doesn't that sound like an island or something. Smile. Actually a lot
of LD and Visually Impaired people look at the screen while it reads to
them. There are programs like K 3000 and "Read Please" that highlight the
word as it is spoken.
Actually speaking of making things easier to read.
There is a free font that was researched and designed to be easier to read.
You can download it at
www.aph.org do a search for "Aphont" and it will pop up. You can bold it,
italicize it, enlarge it, and do much more with it, and it is been
researched and done focus groups and it is more easier and comfortable to
read than more traditional fonts.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
www.guidedogs.com
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
-- Vance Havner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 8:03 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: paragraphs for validators, general question
Yes, I know that BookShare attempts to serve other handicaps besides
blidness.
But if someone is sighted but is eligible due to another covered handicap,
they're not gonna read the book off the screen, are they?
If they could do that, they wouldn't need Bookshare, or would they?
I would think that they would be listening to the book via a Daisy reader;
and for them paragraphs and formatting would be rendered irrelevant.
If I am failing to understand something, please enlighten me someone.
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