[Blindmath] Accessible Textbook Finder Beta: Federated Search

[Richard Baldwin]

Right now, the following note appears on the website:

AccessText is now free of charge!

Renew <https://www.accesstext.org/account.php> your membership or become a
member <https://www.accesstext.org/membership1.php> today.


Dick Baldwin

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
birkir.gunnarsson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Isn't the AccessText network something that only disability student
> service office are allowed to access through paid membership, or has
> that changed?
> Otherwise, good to see an integrated search tool if it works.
> I'll add it to that famous presentation (which went very well last
> week at the NFB Youth Slam, I've meant to get it up sooner, but I had
> to make a last ditch effort to translate all of NVDA 2011.2 into
> Icelandic before the deadline, by end of this week, I do expect tohave
> the presentation up for comments by the end of this weekend, though
> many of the A2S gys are in Europe so busy).
> Cheers
> -B
>
> On 7/26/11, Richard Baldwin <baldwin at dickbaldwin.com> wrote:
> > I entered the ISBN # 9780321559678, which is a textbook that one of my
> > students is interested in.
> >
> > It sent back information about the book, including title, author, etc.,
> but
> > I didn't see any information about accessibility in the response.
> >
> > What does that mean?
> >
> > Dick Baldwin
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Kevin Chao <kevinchao89 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> The Accessible Textbook Finder (ATF) searches multiple sources of
> >> accessible books and provides the results in a combined format.
> >> The ATF search includes six accessible media producers and libraries.
> >> Search results and materials are provided by the individual sources.
> >> Additional sources may be added during the beta.
> >>
> >> Current sources: AccessText Network, Alternative Media Access Center,
> >> BookShare, CourseSmart, Learning Ally, and National Library Service
> >>
> >> Please give it a try, it's a one-stop search for all accessible books.
> >> http://www.accesstext.org/fedsearch.php
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Kevin
> >>
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