Re: Text tutorials on content management systems
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:14:03 -0400 (EDT)
I'm interested in any such material that you have and would consider
making it available on
http://NonvisualDevelopment.org
In the U.S., the spirit of the copyright law is for blind people to gain
timely access to information regardless of copyright. From experience
and observation, sighted learners are not interested in plain text
tutorials with no font differentiation or images. No class or book gives
them learning material in such a form: it would be unacceptable.
Archiving such material makes it even less likely that someone intending
to abuse its intent would chance upon it over the web. Unfortunately,
PDFs, though electronic in nature, continue to involve substantial
barriers to effective access by blind people. Given the pace of
technological change, a blind person may never access material that would
enable employment if he or she had to wait for an agency to convert it to
an accessible form. For years, my web site has included archived text
tutorials on technology topics, and no publisher has expressed a concern
to me. Of course, please use discretion so that we can continue to help
one another in this way!
Cheers,
Jamal
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008,
Ishe Chinyoka wrote:
> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:25:37 +0200
> From: Ishe Chinyoka <chinyoka.consultant@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Text tutorials on content management systems
>
> Hi,
> Thanks for the offering. I find that the stuff is good and helps in
> many places where we need easy to grasp short tutorials for the job.
> We appreciate the effort.
>
> Well, I have got a collection of documents which I can send to anyone
> interested on LaTeX, XML, Assembly and Linux. These documents are
> packaged in the same way you usually package your books, but I
> hesitated to post some of these documents online for legal reasons: I
> am not sure about the copyright issues involved. I could perhaps post
> them to you or Inthane for others to download from the Grab Bag site.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On 7/31/08, Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > These were obtained from PDFs that are essentially inaccessible to screen
> > readers. After unsuccessfully trying several different programs to access
> > the content, I wrote code to do it myself. The text sometimes has missing
> > words, and is not as good as a quality scan/correction result, but I hope
> > is still helpful to blind individuals who cannot practically obtain the
> > information otherwise.
> >
> > http://EmpowermentZone.com/cms_doc.zip
> >
> > Jamal
> >
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