Books for Blind Scientists: The Technological Requirements of Accessibility
By William A. Barry John A. Gardner Randy Lundquist Department of Physics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon; Information Technology and Disabilities, Vol 1 No 4Publication Date: November 1994
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.
Published by: EASI - Equal Access to Software & Information (Website:http://www.rit.edu/~easi/)
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