Category Archives: free print disability tools

Open Content Textbooks Available to All Without Proof of Disability

Posted on 22 December 2009 by Lon

U. S. Department of Education Grants Funding to Bookshare to Convert OpenContent Textbooks to Accessible FormatsI have been doing a lot of training this past fall on Accessible Instructional Materials and copyright issues. When I share about the conten… Continue reading →

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Create EBooks with Your Cell Phone Camera?

Posted on 7 April 2009 by Lon

Click! Take a picture of that page with your nifty smartphone or digital camera and turn it into a MP3 sound file in 3 steps.1. Open it on your computer with Top OCR, a free open source program in the Access Apps Suite, or you can download it separate… Continue reading →

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