Re: What's the market for accessible books on programming?
- From: "The Elf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:30:11 -0700
hi,
I have only the scantest notion of the real market size, the big trouble I
believe is not lack of caring, but that there is no one mainly used manual,
so the publishers get a batch of single requests spread out over time and
location, which amounts to little in there eyes.
a note to the positive, many will if you work persistently to contact them,
provide an alternative version of there books to folks for a fair price,
some, for students will send a disk of the book for simply sending them a
photo copy or fax of the receipt from the college store for the print copy
of the book.
I was involved in this a bit when attending local college in my area at that
time, which had one of the most excellent disabled student centers I have
seen to date, and assisted some of the students with the contact work.
HTH,
inthane
proprietor, The Grab Bag,
for blind computer users and programmers
http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com
Owner: Alacorn Computer Enterprises
"own the might and majesty of a Alacorn!"
www.alacorncomputer.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Martz" <pmartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:45 AM
Subject: What's the market for accessible books on programming?
Hi folks -- I know we're all blind or visually impaired here, and we'd
like any programming manuals to be in an accessible format. But does
anyone have any hard data on the size of the market for blind-accessible
programming books?
It seems that if the market size were significant, publishers would take
steps to make more programming books accessible.
Paul Martz
Skew Matrix Software LLC
_http://www.skew-matrix.com_ <http://www.skew-matrix.com/>
+1 303 859 9466
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