Gary D. Price, MLIS sent along Word From Canada on a $33-million program to digitize the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) library, book production and distribution processes likely will be copied by other libraries for the blind around the world.
Blind or visually impaired people can access books and other textual material in four ways: through Braille, recorded \”talking books,\” computer-generated synthetic voice and (for those with low vision) enlarged text.
By creating a database of electronic texts, the CNIB is now able to use the same digital file to create material in various formats.
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