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People who use adaptive technologies (like screen readers
or screen magnifiers) to access information on the
internet dont need any more barriers in their way because
they have enough to worry about with the incompatibility
of different softwares and security systems. Library
service to this
group of people should be as direct as
possible so that they have a little extra as possible to
worry about. At present the download process from the
National Library Service's Braille and Audio Reading
Download system (BARD) involves "extracting" and
"unzipping" and finding files in Microsoft's arcane
"Windows Explorer" file management system which may
seem like old hat to some of us but to people who are blind
is preventative. Someone needs to hack together a
streamlined download process and device so that adaptive
technology users can phone in their library requirements
and have them show up "magically" on a device that only
has buttons for play, speed, tone, forward and backward a
chapter.
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