Comments | kestrell: Number of people with severe vision impairments expected to double by 2020

kestrell

Number of people with severe vision impairments expected to double by 2020

Apr 30, 2010 09:45

Kes: The statistics cited below are contextualized within Bookshare.org's volunteer outreach program as described in their most recent newsletter, but I'm posting it here to remind folks that not everyone who has a severe vision impairment identifies as blind ( Read more... )

accessible books, aging baby boomers, blindness statistics, ebooks

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vvalkyri April 30 2010, 16:28:08 UTC

Eventually managed to find the volunteer 'manual' - took a bit to figure out whether it's possible to be of use without owning a scanner: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/2.+What+All+Bookshare+Volunteers+Should+Know

Query: When books are released in electronic format are they immediately readable by screenreaders or is there something else that has to first be done?

kestrell April 30 2010, 17:30:50 UTC

When someone donates a scanned text to Bookshare--making certain that it fulfills all the requirements such as including all page breaks and it should be in rtf format--then there are still a few more steps before the book is officially accepted and included into the library ( ... )