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  Free Kindle books (10/23) – 30 + discounted-book forum alerts

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  Read2Go Accessible e-Book Reader App

  625 readersIf you have a reading disability and are qualified to use Bookshare, then there is a new ereader app available.  Here is part of the review of it from TechLearning: Quality and Effectiveness Bookshare materials are available in several formats, including HTML, Text, Braille and DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System).  Recently Bookshare released Read2Go, an iPad app

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  Read2Go Accessible e-Book Reader App

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• Publishing for Accessibility – Perth IDUG

  2659 readersOn Wednesday, 30 September 2009, Perth IDUG celebrates its first anniversary and is hosting a meeting with the theme Publishing for Accessibility with InDesign. Info & Registration: http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/938/ More and more organisations now-a-days, require that publications are made accessible in accordance with Government guidelines. Accessibility enables those people in the community with visual impairments or

• EPUB 3 Best Practices

  1014 readersCategories: QuarkXPressTags: extNewsletterCBEPUB 3 Best Practices…, by Matt Garrish, guides you through the most advanced features of EPUB 3 for digital books. For example: global language support; embedded multimedia; scripted and interactive content; advanced metadata; and fixed and adaptive layouts. 372(Read more...)

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  Tools of Change: Keynote – Making the book truly accessible, by Jim Fruchterman

  1308 readersJim Fruchterman of Benetech and BookShare Taking care of people with disabilities. Need to make the book truly accessible. Founded Bookshare, largest online library for poeple with print disabilities. Users download over 1 million books a year, but not doing nearly enough to get to disabled readers. Blind, low vision, quadriplegic, etc. People who just

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  IDPF Annual Meeting: EPUB 3, First Look

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  Accessibility and ereaders: functional requirements, by Sue Polanka

  691 readers eReaders aren’t designed with accessibility in mind. Ken Petri, Director of the Web Accessibility Center at The Ohio State University, contributed a chapter about eBook accessibility to the forthcoming No Shelf Required 2:  Use and Management of Ebooks title from ALA Editions.  Due to the need for currency of this topic, Ken has posted some

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  #BEA11: EPUB 3 Introduced at IDPF Conference

  32948 readersBy Hannah Johnson At the IDPF Digital Book Conference preceding BookExpo America, Bill McCoy (Executive Director, IDPF) discussed today’s release of EPUB 3, an update on what the IDPF hopes will become the universally accepted standard format for e-books and digital book content in the future. Specifications the new EPUB 3 e-book format were posted today