That All May Read Have you heard of the NLS campaign, That All May Read? NLS is a free braille and talking book library service for people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness, or a physical disability that prevents them from reading or holding the printed page. Through a national network of cooperating libraries, […]
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YouDescribe is a free, web-based tool that allows anyone, anywhere to add audio descriptions to any YouTube video, and share them quickly and easily. YouDescribe allows describers to record brief descriptions that are stored in the cloud and played back when the viewer watches the YouTube video with the YouDescribe player. Here is a quick […]
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A weekend with the Blaze EZ Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP First, HIMS made the BookSense. It was a fine little device which could play all of your books and media. It’s the pocket-sized version of the large, but free, Digital Talking Book player available from the National Library Service for the […]
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Avoid Screen Reader “Freak Out” Modern screen readers are able to read dynamic, scripted content updates within a web page. However, if the content a screen reader is currently reading or focused on changes or is removed/hidden from the page, the screen reader “freaks out” due to this loss of focus, and typically reverts focus […]
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NVDA 2015.1 Has Arrived Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Keeping to their regular milestone schedule, the folks at NV-Access (Non Visual Desktop Access) have released the first official release of the popular NVDA screenreader of 2015. The unimaginative yet descriptive title of NVDA 2015.1 can’t lead you astray. If you are […]
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Turning Your iPad Into a Braille Writer Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Writing Braille on an iDevice is not new. It all started back with BrailleTouch, which would copy text you had written into any app. Then there came mBraille, which expanded upon this idea with many powerful features. With iOS7 came […]
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