[nfbcs] Accessible books of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Image Processing

Mon Nov 21 16:06:52 UTC 2016

>will an official from disability services request a book for a person if it is job related and not school related?

Not officially. It's not legal. At least not in California.

That would be a good thing to ask the NFB legal council; if there is a legitimate way to make this happen.

If not, perhaps the NFB needs to do what the legal council for schools did; force publishers to provide electronic formats to print-impaired people who can show proof of purchase for the printed book.

Be aware that you can buy electronic copies of many of these books in lieu of a printed book, and when we get publisher requests fulfilled, we often get just this same ebook that a non-disabled student would have purchased anyway.

And accessibility is all over the map. Sometimes the books are amazingly accessible; sometimes just images.

For the person who asked about accessible STEM content, there is no magic source.  Nemeth isn't happening in Bookshare books.UEB math is still influx. Math ML shows up on some online courses and MOOCS; in other places the only way you get Math ML in your ebook is to have it hand-entered, usually when you are a student and there are disability support staff to do it.

--Debee

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From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of david hertweck via nfbcs
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you stated
"Most of Prentice-Hall and Pearson's books are readily available in electronic format, but you need an official from disability services to acquire that for you. "
will an official from disability services request a book for a person if it is job related and not school related?
thanks.

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Which service
www.learningally.org
or

www.bookshare.org

--Debee

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Did not know about the service you are talking about.  I am a blind engineer working in R&D I need a text now and again can I also use such a service or is it just for stoodents.
thanks.

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Most of Prentice-Hall and Pearson's books are readily available in electronic format, but you need an official from disability services to acquire that for you. I see you are in India and I don't know how things work there, but here in the  U.S., the student would contact Pearson or its state representative and request the book for a particular blind student.

I do this in my job several times a week. Here in California we have an agency we do the requests through, because the publishers want to send their ebooks to a central, authorized repository for students with print disabilities. That's also true in some other states. I can however contact publishers directly if the agency is slow to process my request or I am in a state that doesn't have such a service for colleges.

If you are your college's official, then contact the publishers directly; both of them have online forms you fill out to certify that you are indeed officially acting on the part of a student. Again, rules for India might be different.

Another possibility is Learning Ally. These kinds of books will be filled with visual elements, diagrams and charts that need to be described.
Learning Ally does describe images, though there quality is uneven. Neither Bookshare nor Learning Ally, being library services require you own the printed textbook; publisher requests require either a proof of purchase or proof that your agency has one on file.

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To avoid potential copyright issues, check with Bookshare if you don't want to purchase the titles you are seeking.

Luis

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Dear members,

Hope you are doing great.

Do you have a copy of the following books- 1. Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Prentice-Hall, Third Edition
(2009) 2. Rafael C. Gonzalez & Richard E. Woods, Digital Image Processing, Pearson Education.

If you have, will it be possible to provide them to me? or can you provide me any other book related with above topics?

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Thanks and Regard
Aakash Bansal
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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