[nabs-l] Textbook Questions

[David Andrews]

Well, do you have a techer of the visually impaired?  Can she/he be 
of some help?  Your state should have some mechanism in place for 
getting NIMAS books from publishers, through their resource center 
for the blind or something?  What state are you in?

Also, digital isn't necessarily your only solution.  You might have 
to use yhuman readers -- as we did in the old days.  Not perfect but 
we should have a variety of tools available to us so we can adapt to 
all situations.

Also, RFB&D and bookshare should do bookd when requested.  You will 
have to provide copies and they may not have them right away, so you 
may have to fill in with scanning or human readers.  You can't ever 
assume everything will be available.  When in college I used to work 
one semester ahead, if I could that was back in mid 70's.


Dave

At 06:01 PM 8/26/2010, you wrote:
>Thanks for your answer, but I forgot to mention. I am in high 
>school, and high schools don't have a college stile disability 
>office. The school did what they know, AKA contacting RFBD and book 
>share, but they are like, we don't know what to do. So, to be able 
>to have the books by the time school starts, I have to find a 
>solution on how to make the text books digital.
>
>Thanks
>Mark

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