{"id":1860,"date":"2013-06-17T10:47:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T14:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2013-06-17T10:47:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T14:47:03","slug":"accessible-textbook-program-61713","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1860","title":{"rendered":"Accessible Textbook Program, 6\/17\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might be the beginning of summer but it&#8217;s not too early to start thinking about getting the beginning of the school year\u00a0text books ready to go. And the Maryland State\u00a0Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped\u00a0maintains a program to\u00a0help students who are blind or low vision access their textbooks in alternate formats.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Maryland Accessible Textbook Program<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The Maryland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped operates a program that helps post-secondary students with print disabilities gain access to textbooks in an accessible electronic format. Call the Maryland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped for more information at 410-230-2424 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbph.lib.md.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">click here for the library&#8217;s website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1860\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might be the beginning of summer but it&#8217;s not too early to start thinking about getting the beginning of the school year\u00a0text books ready to go. And the Maryland State\u00a0Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped\u00a0maintains a program to\u00a0help students who are blind or low vision access their textbooks in alternate formats. Maryland Accessible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}