You might be interested in this upcoming audio description workshop on on OPAL/Online Programming for All Libraries.... (and you don't have to be a librarian to attend... everyone is welcome!) Here's more info from the email from Tom Peters/TAP Information Services: Audio description is a great method for making non-verbal visual information ...

On March 20, 2008, at 2 p.m. Eastern time, there will be a free EASI webinar: Updating NLS Library of Congress Uses of Digital Book Formats. The presenters will be Lloyd Rasmussen, Acting Head, Engineering Section, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, and 3 patrons who have been part of the NLS digital download ...

For those looking for a free audio tutorial on the Victor Reader Stream, go to http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/support/victor_reader_stream. Or, click the direct link at http://www.humanware.ca/web/en/media/stream_audio_tutorial.zip In case you are not familiar with the Victor Reader Stream, this is the reader currently used with the National ...

My Way News website has an article titled Retailers to Sell TV Converter Boxes at http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071211/D8TFGVJG1.html. It discusses the fact that American consumers will need to buy converter boxes for analog televisions by February 17, 2009, as programming will switch to digital on that day. Coupons will be available to help ...