dial-a-book
Mary Otten
choose to provide the book in adobe only. That leaves blind people, who
would be chief beneficiaries of on-line books (after all, sighted folks
can get them in book stores or libraries) out of the loop. I wonder why,
since the first chapte is available in ascii format, they couldn't
provide ascii for the whole thing if somebody wanted it. Just another
example of something that should be a benefit being inaccessible to us.
Oh well. What's new?
Todd DeVries
I thought readers of this list mmight be interested in this resource.
http://www.psi.net/DialABook/index.html. The service offers the first
chapters and tables of contents from recently released books. It also
offers a limited down-load service of "trade" books in PDF format.
Welcome to Dial-A-Book
Download Bookstore
Complete books for download delivery to your hard disk. Browse
excerpts in ASCII, download in Adobe Acrobat 2.0 PDF.
Chapter One
Browse first chapters and tables of contents of :
Books reviewed by Atlantic Monthly
Books reviewed on the C-SPAN Booknotes television program
Books from leading public policy organizations
Books from major university presses
American Library Association Newbery Award Children's books
Books Reviewed By Astronomy
Chess books selected by the U.S. Chess Federation
Excerpts from eleven Bibles translations
Ziff-Davis and Albion Books computer Books...
Books Reviewed by Foreign Affairs Magazine
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To read Dial-A-Book's Inc.'s press release on the Download Bookstore
service click here . Chapter One is brought to you by Dial-A-Book, Inc.
and Performance Systems International, whose new WWW service will
be available in the first quarter of 1995.
Feedback to s...@dialabook.com
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"I was impelled to think. God, was it difficult!"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
David Poehlman
one step farther and offer complete works and in accessible form?
Hands-on Technolog(eyes)
Touching the internet.
Call for services:
voice only 1-(500) 488-1955
email:
Deborah Gillespie
access this dial-a-book at this time, but we must remember there are
other types of disabilities represented on this list as well. What about
those who are mobility impared for example and unable to go to a book store.
Just my 2 cents.
Debbie
Todd DeVries
wanted people to know about a place where textual information ,no matter how
limited, could be obtained; 2) people need to know about services which are
not completely accessible so they can act to bring about positive change.
We as blind people need to stop whining about the state of the world and act
proactively to make positive changes. Perhaps if ten of us wanted to
purchase books from this establishment, and asked for them in ASCII, it
would have an impact.
I submit that this organization chose PDF because they thought it would
most closely represent the look of the original print copy. Questions of
access to a screen reader never entered into the picture.
Take care!
Todd DeVries
AKP...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Ann P.
P.S., What was that web site again? I think I lost it. If twenty of us
got off our, err, um, well, and sent the webmaster at 'whatever'. They
might think more than twice. They might think a dozen times.
Ann P.
Ann K. Parsons
On-line Assistant to the EASI Chair, &
Chairman of the International Tutors'
Special Education Committee
akp...@rit.edu
"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not All those who wander are lost."
(J.R.R. Tolkien)
Barbara Laxon
I'm trying to write a paper about internet access for the blind.
However, I've been trying for several weeks to access anything myself to
write about. This is as far as I've gotten. My original intent was to
demonstrate how a blind user would be able to access software over the
internet through a freenet (I'm on seflin freenet). So far I've been
spinning my wheels (and my brain), when I realized that easi had a
listserve that I could join. Please excuse my long winded request for
help(!). Thanks in advance to anyone who respond.
PEACE AND LOVE, BARBARA
Barbara Laxon
z008...@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us
Paul Peterson
for some.
Paul