Have you tried Daisy books? They're a particular format of publication for people who have difficulty accessing printed matter. I think I'm right in saying that these are narrated, rather than relying on those mechanistic screen readers. Also I believe these are sold at a discounted rate.
Best,
Christopher J. Rossiter
PhD Researcher & PsyPAG Representative (BPS Wessex Branch)
Department of Psychology & School of Management
03 AD 00 University of Surrey
Guildford. GU2 7XH
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Subject: Re: Book Accessibility to Blind People?
I Wasn't sure if you were looking for the screen reader or the books.
For the screen reader Thunder is free (I've heard mixed reviews about how well it works)
For books there are there are lots of places. Besides e-book repositories like project gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ there are also services such as Google books
And if you are looking for something to work with braille aware devices The American Action Fund has just made a number of free braille books availabale on line: http://www.actionfund.org/actionfund/default.asp
-Gregg
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:03 PM, LILITH Finkler <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Dear Colleagues. I recall hearing that digitized books were available to blind readers via
Shareware. Is anyone aware of this program and whether copyright laws permit Canadians
(as opposed to Americans) to access this service?
Also, are there text-to-speech readers that can read materials in PDF format?
Thanks, Lilith
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