Brian Charlson, technology director at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, MA. demonstrates a variety of devices that provide the ability to access books via voice, large print, or Braille. Among the devices Brian demonstrates are: the Victor Reader Stream, the Booksense, The Bookport Plus, the Kindle, the iPad and the iPhone.

Chapters: 1 — Accessible Technology Options for the Blind and Visually Impaired; 2 — Braille; 3 — Large letters; 4 — Access to books via voice; 5 — The Victor Reader stream; 6 — The BookSense; 7 — The Bookport Plus; 8 — The Kindle; 9 — The iPad; 10 — The iPhone; 11 — Optical character recognition; 12 — Conclusion.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to ever-changing technology upgrades, a number of points were made in this webcast that are no longer true: 1. The cost of the Refresh-a-braille is much lower than it was at the time this webcast was recorded and, 2 The Kindle digital book player has had two new iterations since these recordings and Brian's comment that "all Kindles" have the ability to play books out loud is no longer true. Neither the Kindle Fire nor the latest Kindle have the voice functionality that the original had.

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