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Books - Electronic Texts

And Educational Resources

(Revised May 20, 1999)

This collection of links should serve as a good starting point for locating books in accessible formats. You will also find links to innovative projects whose objective is to make education more accessible.

• Association Of Higher Education And Disability

• Alex Electronic Text Project has over 700 full electronic texts from various sources that can be downloaded.

• Amazon Speech Friendly Search Engine. A simpler way to search and order from Amazon, courtesy of Cathy's News Stand

• American Literature

• American Printing House for the Blind

• Assistive Media (requires Real Audio)

• Audible.com is a place where you can purchase a wide range of business, professional and traditional texts in real audio format, along with walkman-lime machines that allow you to play them when you're away from your computer.

• Bookshelf again, courtesy of Cathy's News Stand. All kinds of book resources.

• Braille Authority Of North America

• Braille Institute Of America has extensive braille and talking book collections.

• Braille Music List includes the opportunity to subscribe to a mailing list and other braille music resources.

• Braille Planet Inc Aside from being the home page for the MegaDots braille translator, this site offers a lot of braille-related links.

• B&R Samizdat Express: Internet Trends, Reading, Fiction Etexts See what the Europeans are doing! Electronic texts for education and conducting business on the Internet.

• CSUN 1999 Papers represent the leading edge of developments in access to information, integration of technology into education environments, etc.

• Enabling Support Foundation has undertaken projects to do with computer technology, education and much more.

• Dancing Dots Inc. Computer-based braille music translation.

• DOIT Project (Disabled Opportunities In Internetworking And Technology) is one of the most innovative projects for integration of technology in education and employment of disabled people.

• EASI (Equal Access to Software And Information) offers on-line workshops in web design, adapting computer labs for the disabled, etc.

• Electronic Childrens' Books On-Line

• Great Books Index

• Great Text Links -- Blindness, Technology and Computing contains links to all kinds of material including everything you'll need to make Adobe Acrobat documents accessible.

• Hadley Correspondence School For The Blind

• Internet Public Library is a massive resource hosted by the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

• In Touch Graphics produces tactile and low vision maps, charts, diagrams, etc.

• Learning Disabilities Association Of America

• National Braille Press produces both general and computer-related publications in braille and electronic formats,

• National Digital Library from the Library of Congress.

• National Early Childhood Technical Assistance System

• National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.

• NLS Search Page.

• On-Line Books Page has over eight thousand titles on-line and much more.

• Project Gutenberg produces material in universally accessible electronic formats.

• Read To Me has links to over 400 on-line texts, as well as software allowing web pages and electronic texts to be verbalized. Also offers resources for the Hawaiian language.

• Recording For The Blind & Dyslexic produces audio and electronic texts on request, for employment and education.

• SNOW (Special Needs Opportunity Windows) provides free on-line educational opportunities in special education. Partners include Ontario Ministry of Education, Adaptive Technology Center at University of Toronto, etc.

• Teaching Math To Visually Impaired Students

• Texas Text Exchange has now gone national and is building an archive of scanned texts.

• Texas Library For The Blind And Physically Handicapped

• Virtual Computer Library from the University of Texas

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