Accessible Books for Students with Disabilities

Students with Disabilities

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Summary

Adding more accessible textbooks and supplemental reading material for K-12 students with visual and learning disabilities to the Bookshare.org online collection.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $2,420 was raised for this project.

Received $2,420 from 23 donations from people like:

(Anon.)

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Fewer than 5% of books are produced in formats that are accessible to people who have visual or learning disabilities. To read other books, more than three million US residents, including one million students, are forced to laboriously scan them into computers. In particular, K-12 students need accessible textbooks and outside reading material. Schools are legally required to offer textbooks in these formats, but access is often inadequate and little supplemental reading is made available.

Activities

To purchase and scan 100 books that have been requested by teachers and parents. Ten of these will be textbooks that will be proofread for perfect text accuracy. All 100 will be shared nationwide through the Bookshare.org online collection.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $2,420

Funding Policy: subsidized/guaranteed

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $2,420 as of Feb 26, 2004. The original project funding goal was $5,060.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project will help to develop a core collection of K-12 books to serve students with disabilities.

Project Message

Bookshare.org is an expression of my love for books. I want to make sure that everybody can share in the joy of literacy and access to information, which will help promote education and employment.
- James R. Fruchterman, President and CEO