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| An exemption in copyright law that allows the text of books to be freely available to the visually impaired has prompted a new web-based service for the blind: Bookshare.org. Subscribers must fax in a disability affidavit and pay $50/year for the service, which allows users to file-share scanned text from (currently) over 7500 books. The electronic text can be easily fed into text-to-speech software programs. | |
| Keywords: disabled, disabilities, accessibility, assistive technology, physically challenged, visually impaired, blind | |
| http://www.bookshare.org/ | |
| Focus Area: Teaching and Learning | |
| Scope: Global | |
| Resource Type: Online Collections (databases, lists, etc) | |
| Entry Date: March 7, 2002 |