Books for blind scientists: the technological requirements of accessibility

This paper describes three new developments that hold great promise for improving the accessibility of scientific literature for people who are visually impaired or who have significant vision-related learning disabilities. All rely on the availability of information in high-level electronic form. A...

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Published inInformation technology and disabilities Vol. 1; no. 4
Main Authors Barry, William A, Gardner, John A, Lundquist, Randy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information 01.10.1994
Subjects
Access for the disabled
Blind
Methods
Printing and writing systems
Self-help devices for the disabled
Technology application
Visually disabled persons
United States
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Summary:This paper describes three new developments that hold great promise for improving the accessibility of scientific literature for people who are visually impaired or who have significant vision-related learning disabilities. All rely on the availability of information in high-level electronic form. A brief review of methods for storing high-level information and an example of their use in printing Dotsplus documents are given.
ISSN:1073-5127
1073-5127