AccessText Brings Braille Textbooks Online

AccessText is a new effort to help disabled students get a solid footing in the classroom by providing access to texts that support their disability:

AccessText, a new service that rolled out a beta version this week, has created an online database that makes it simpler for disability-student services at colleges to track down alternative forms of course materials from book publishers. When electronic versions don't exist for a particular book, the college would get permission to scan the pages so a student could either make the font larger, or use other text-to-speech or refreshable Braille reading devices.

We wonder what took so long!

The internet can be a tremendous place to help the disabled find equality on campus.

Sometimes, the traditional classroom binds the mind more than expanding the learning of the spirit, and projects like AccessText can only help celebrate true learning and real equity and a genuine logic that is equally shared between student and instructor.