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E-Textbook Publisher Strives to Make Titles More Accessible to the Blind
By admin | December 15, 2009
E-Textbook Publisher Strives to Make Titles More Accessible to the Blind
Flat World Knowledge Inc. on Monday announced an effort to make its electronic textbooks more accessible to blind students and those with other disabilities.
The upstart textbook publisher, which makes its textbooks free online but hopes students will purchase print copies or related study aids, said it will form a partnership with a nonprofit group to offer its titles in formats that are easy to use by electronic Braille devices or by software that reads texts aloud. The group is
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