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Program Development Associates Disability and the Workplace Hotbraille Publishing Portal
Ideas, Training and Solutions for Today's Disability Professional
Resources for libraries, agencies, centers, schools, parents and advocates!
(Books, CD's and Videos)
Disability Training
Awareness & Sensitivity Training
Advocacy
Employment
Staff Development
Assistive TechnologyVisit us on the web - www.pdassoc.com
Call 800-543-2119 or Fax 315-452-0710
Program Development Associates
PO Box 2038
Syracuse, NY 13220http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/reference/GUIDES/DW_Primer/default.html
Catherwood Library, located at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, offers an extensive guide to Internet Resources dealing with several levels of physical and mental disability and the workplace. Detailed annotations of indexed sites cover topics including the Americans With Disabilities Act, government sites, worker's compensation, and job hunting. The Getting Started section lists resources for those with disabilities.
HotBraille
HotBraille.com, Inc. is the only free Braille transcribing service on the internet. Located in sunny Oakland, California, HotBraille was founded in September by a group of Web and Braille enthusiasts with the mission of providing anyone with free Braille.
We will soon be launching more web-based services of interest to the visually impaired.
If you have any more questions about HotBraille, feel free to contact us at http://www.hotbraille.com
If you are blindYou will find HotBraille.com to be a very useful service. Instead of buying and maintaining your own Braille printer and translation software you can use hotbraille.com for all your documents needs. Use hotbraille.com to print your class notes, recipes, written reports, internet sources, or make a record of your everyday notes, all in Braille! As long as you limit each letter size to 4 Braille pages, we will print the message you provide on the screen and send it to you, or any of your friends, for free.
If you are not blindWith HotBraille.com you'll be able to send letters in Braille to your visually impaired friends. The service is fully web-enabled and free. Once you register as a member, you can use our services as many times as you want and send to as many people as you want. As long as you limit each letter size to 4 pages, we will print the message you provide on the screen, Braille it, and send it.
Don't forget to tell your blind friends, or family members, to use this site as their own personal transcribing service. Visually impaired members will enjoy the speech-friendly web environment and the easy navigation within our site.
The Publishing Portal
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- NetRead, Inc -- The Publishing Portal(TM) -- today announced it launched its website at www.netread.com The company seeks to make the tangled business of publishing easier for those involved in publishing and more accessible to those who are not -- but would like to be.
The company was founded by Pete Alcorn, a veteran of educational publishing, and Kent Lindstrom, a Senior Manager at Deloitte & Touche LLP. The NetRead project began at a book club started by Alcorn and a local San Francisco writer named Jason Flores-Williams. They met to discuss mostly philosophy and social texts, from Dante to Nietzsche, Sowell to Zinn. Flores-Williams' frustrations as a writer and Alcorn's knowledge of publishing led to discussions of recent developments in publishing. After Lindstrom penciled out the economics of a "publishing portal" in early 1999, they realized that they were looking at a vast opportunity. Alcorn and Lindstrom incorporated NetRead and left their jobs to start NetRead. Flores-Williams remains dedicated to his writing.
NetRead's goal is simple: make it easier to publish books. The company provides free information, helps people and businesses connect, and offers services that make book publishing practical and accessible. NetRead believes that many types of books, which have been blocked from the market by traditional economic and practical factors, will soon emerge. NetRead will assist in this evolution.
NetRead supports all forms and formats of book publishing, from print to Braille, audio to ebooks. For now, all of NetRead's services are free. Ultimately, NetRead will offer a service for distributing books in multiple formats through a variety of channels.
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