Accessibility Resources. Home. Account Overview. American Printing House for the Blind. Feds Give $1.1-Million for E-Textbooks for Vision-Impaired Students - Wired Campus. A pilot program to improve access to e-textbooks for students with disabilities that make it hard for them to read print got a $1.1-million grant from the U.S.
Department of Education, the program announced today. The Student E-rent Pilot Project, or STEPP, a public-private partnership, will digitally format and distribute digital versions of textbooks for use by students with disabilities like blindness and dyslexia. Presently, most of these students have to rely on limited college resources to access these books, but in this program, books will be electronically reformatted so that they can be read out loud by computers or e-book readers in a way that makes sense to students. The grant will help the project add 1,000 books, including 80 percent of the best-selling textbooks on college campuses. CourseSmart.
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