What apps and technologies are readers with disabilities using?

[kestrell]

This is from the Bookshare Blog, so it reflects a specific subsection of readers with visual and print disabilities, but my advice is to support that the trend toward using mainstream tech and avoiding assistive tech as much as possible.
http://bookshareblog.wpengine.com/2019/03/apps-bookshare-members-use/

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[kestrell]

What format is Open Library using?

Also, I highly recommend this book I've been reading that I found on Bookshare: Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design (2018) by Bess Williamson. It starts right after WW2, but while reading it, I realized that we are still having the same struggles and the same debates. The government wants to tell the disabled people how to "overcome" their disabilities, andhas to take the paternalistic stance because PWD don't really understand what they need. The gov. insists on handing out shoddy equipment to PWD, instead of letting PWD make their own choices. So much of the gov. issued stuff is crap, that PWD have been hacking their own tools from the beginning. Paratransit was a gove.-invented solution that got signed in by Ronald Reagan because adapting public transportation was too much of a burden on the automobile companies that make mass transit buses. Seriously, none of this is new.