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jesse_the_kjazzyjj for proofreading!jesse_the_kkestrell explains how we can make more books readable.
Bookshare.org provides ebooks to folks who have official status as print-impaired. Unlimited access is free for students and US$50 per year for adults.
Many writers and publishers still don't know about Bookshare, so in my emails I usually include a link to the Bookshare page describing how authors can get their books added to the library
https://www.bookshare.org/cms/partners/authors
jazzyjjjesse_the_kElsa Sjunneson-Henry questions the dearth of disability community in a context where it would naturally thrive: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina series on Netflix. In the first of snarkbat's Tor.com essays Constructing Blindness she asks why her family seems clueless, since Sabrina’s witchy powers are accompanied by hereditary blindness.
It’s important to acknowledge that it is scary to lose vision when you don’t know how to cope. Of course it would be frightening to Roz—but what bothers me is that her family treats it like it should be frightening, rather than giving her the adaptive tools to lead a life she’d be happy with. In a family that knows what blindness is like, a holistic approach that would give Roz safety and security seems like something I would expect—and something I’d love to see depicted on screen. A family that copes through knowledge and adaptability; a family (like the one in A Quiet Place) that understands and utilizes interdependence to create access.
jesse_the_kCADET is free, downloadable caption-authoring software that enables anyone to produce high-quality caption files that are compatible with any media player that supports the display of captions. CADET can also be used to generate audio-description scripts. CADET does not require an internet connection in order to operate: it runs locally in any Web browser, so users do not need to upload private videos or proprietary content to servers or video-hosting sites in order to create captions.
( feature overview and origins )
Variously called “The Caption Center,” the “Media Access Group,” and currently “The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media.” ↩︎
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