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ABA’s Virtual Library Services for Blind and Visually Impaired People

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2002)

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Today, Internet technology provides a multitude of low-cost solutions for small organizations to become on-line services providers. On the other hand, advances in assistive equipment and software interfaces expanded the opportunities for blind and visually impaired people to communicate and access information via Internet. In this context, the ABA conducted a pilot project with the aim to offer on-line library services to its beneficiaries. Several issues have been raised during this project concerning digital content production, access, protection and distribution via Internet.

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References

  1. DAISY Consortium: http://www.daisy.org

  2. Techniques for Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS

  3. CAST’s Bobby system: http://www.cast.org/bobby

  4. WebSound Software: http://websound.unige.ch

  5. Jaws Software: http://www.freedomscientific.com

  6. Home Page Reader: http://www.ibm.com/able/hpr.html

  7. Microsoft’s WMRM: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/wm7/drm.asp

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Association pour le Bien des Aveugles et Malvoyants, 34, Place Bourg-de-Four, 1204, Geneva, Switzerland

    Karim Taha

  2. Netfonix, 10, Rue de Blavignac, 1227, Carouge, Switzerland

    Lori Stefano Pertucci

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  1. Karim Taha
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  1. SZS — Study Centre for Blind and Partially Sighted Students, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Engesserstr. 4, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. i3s3 — integrated studying, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Joachim Klaus

  3. i3s3 — integrated studying, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/366-1B, 1040, Wien, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Taha, K., Pertucci, L.S. (2002). ABA’s Virtual Library Services for Blind and Visually Impaired People. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2398. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45491-8_69

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45491-8_69

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