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Bookshare: Leveraging Impact Through Technology

Proposal No: 462

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Length of Session (in hours): 1Format: Lecture Expertise Level: Intermediate Type of session: General Conference

Summary of Session

Digital books and mobile devices are changing the way students with print disabilities access printed materials and Bookshare is changing the way that those materials are being created. Learn how Bookshare?s innovations will help you better serve your students.

Abstract

For 10 years, Bookshare has been providing books in accessible formats for people with print disabilities. The next ten years offer new challenges for Bookshare around content, tools and utilization. What new approaches are on the horizon to solve problems of access? In addition to DAISY and BRF formats, Bookshare will be making all books in English and Spanish available in two, text-to-speech audio formats: MP3 audio and DAISY audio. Other innovations include a cloud-based ?bookshelf? accessible from the Bookshare website, Read2Go, Go Read (the free Android accessible e-reader), or dozens of other AT products from other vendors. Bookshare is also looking ahead to other projects, as well as continuing its work describing images using the Poet tool developed under DIAGRAM, and providing them as open content assets for all to use. Join Cherie Miller, Bookshare?s University Program Manager, to learn about Bookshare`s new initiatives and how your students will benefit.

Kepoints

  1. Participants will understand all of the new ways/tools students use to access Bookshare books.
  2. Participants will learn how the open-source Poet tool can be used by them to create image descriptions in the books they process.
  3. Participants will learn why Bookshare memberships benefit their students with print disabilities.

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Howard Kramer

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