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Wayne County Braille and Talking Book Library for the Blind & Physically Handicapped

Hidden Disabilities, Helpful Technology: Improving Library Accessibility

Vanessa J. Morris

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Hide-and-Seek in the Stacks

Did you lose a patron?

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Hide-and-Seek in the Stacks

Is your hardware helping or hiding?

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Hide-and-Seek in the Stacks

Are patrons searching for

software?

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Hide-and-Seek in the Stacks

Can you find any assistive technology?

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Hide-and-Seek in the Stacks

Do you know what services

to seek?

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Is your hardware helping or hiding?

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Large Print

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High Contrast

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Website

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Catalog

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Large Monitor

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Large Print Keyboard

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Trackball Mouse

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Trackball Mouse

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Headsets

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Headsets

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Are patrons searching for software?

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Ease of Access Center

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Universal Access or Accessibility

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Magnification Go from this…

to this!

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Magnification

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Screen Readers

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Screen Readers

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Screen Readers

http://nvaccess.org/download/

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Screen Readers

Window-Eyes: Free with Office 2010 or later

http://windoweyesforoffice.com

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Text-Only Browsers

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Text-Only Browsers

http://www.webbie.org.uk

http://lynx.isc.org

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Speech Recognition

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Speech Recognition

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Can you find any assistive tech?

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Magnifiers

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Magnifiers

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Magnifiers

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3D Printers

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3D Printers

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Smart Brailler

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Braille Printer

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Braille Displays

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Do you know what services to seek?

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http://www.loc.gov/nls/

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https://www.bookshare.org/

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http://www.learningally.org

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Olly Olly Oxen Free

Want to win Hide-and-Seek?

Get a BARD account

Get a trackball mouse

Get a large print keyboard

Use Voiceover on an iOS device

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(734) 727-7300 or (888) 968-2737

Vanessa J. Morris [email protected]


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