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Accessing Digital Textbooks

Accessing Digital Textbooks. Accessible Instructional Materials. Jeff Diedrich Ira Socol. Accessible Instructional Materials…. Legal Obligations…. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act American’s with Disability Act (ADA). Why?.

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Accessing Digital Textbooks

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  1. Accessing Digital Textbooks Accessible Instructional Materials Jeff Diedrich Ira Socol

  2. Accessible Instructional Materials…

  3. Legal Obligations… • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) • Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act • American’s with Disability Act (ADA)

  4. Why?

  5. Does Text-to-Speech give an unfair advantage to students who use it?

  6. Do students have Access to Text-to-Speech at School?

  7. Do students have Access to Text-to-Speech at Home?

  8. Do you consider accessible, digital content when purchasing instructional materials?

  9. Are publishers inherently obligated to submit files to the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC)?

  10. Accessible Media Producers (AMPs) http://bookshare.org Accessible Book Collection

  11. Free Libraries Free Digital Books Gutenberg  http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Gutenberg Australia http://gutenberg.net.au/ UVA http://etext.virginia.edu/ebooks/ Fordham http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/Sbook.html Online Books at the University of Pennsylvania http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ Literature Network - http://www.online-literature.com/Antique Books http://www.antiquebooks.net/readpage.htmlBartleby http://bartleby.com/ Bookshare (Free to Schools for Students with Print Disabilities) - http://www.bookshare.org/

  12. Free Audiobooks Free Audiobooks LibriVox (AudioBooks) - http://librivox.org/ Free Classic Audio Books - http://freeclassicaudiobooks.com/ Books Should Be Free http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/ Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2006/10/audio_book_podc.html

  13. Free Text-To-Speech Speech Enabled within Acrobat Reader Adobe Acrobat Reader with Speech (v. 9.x): http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html Netbook (Adobe Reader for Project Gutenberg) http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1328518

  14. Free Text-To-Speech Microsoft Reader with RMR, Dictionaries, TTS Download the basic program - http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/pc.aspx (desktop or laptop) - or - http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/tablet.aspx (tablet PC) Then download the Text-to-Speech (TTS) software - http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/tts.aspx Then the Dictionaries (the Encarta if you want right-click word definition) - http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/dictionaries.aspx - Finally, right-now for Word2000 or Word2003 only, the "RMR" tool, which puts a toolbar icon in your Microsoft Word which allows instant conversion of any text into the E-book format - http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/rmr.aspx - Microsoft folks assure me that a Word2007 version is on the way.

  15. Free Text-To-Speech Natural Reader Free Version http://www.naturalreaders.com/ (install Free Version Only)  Read Please Free http://www.readplease.com/english/downloads/#rp2003

  16. Free Text-To-Speech Firefox 3 with CLiCk-Speak, and translation, and dictionary http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ (Install Firefox Browser) Click speak is a text reader embedded in the Firefox web browser. http://clickspeak.clcworld.net/downloads.html (Install CLiCk, Speak) https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/918/ (Install gTranslate) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4037 (Dictionary Lookup Extension) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3414 (Dictionary Switcher) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4870 (Google Map Locator)

  17. Free Text-To-Speech Alternative Speaking Browser http://www.opera.com/ Word Talk – TTS for Microsoft Word http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/ PowerTalk – TTS for PowerPoint http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/powertalk/PowerTalk-1.2.11.exe?download

  18. Free Text-To-Speech Amis - Free Daisy Reader for Windows http://amis.sourceforge.net/ Convert PDF to Accessible Text http://www.scannedpdftoword.com/ Convert Phone Pictures to Accessible Texthttp://www.topocr.com/

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