Many hundreds of Bookshare volunteers are also Bookshare Members: A particularly active and engaged core of the volunteer community who also have a print disability (such as blindness).
Member volunteers use Assistive Technology (AT) devices and software in order to scan and sometimes also to proofread books. A few examples of AT software used to scan and proofread are: Kurzweil 1000, OpenBook, JAWS, and Victor Reader Soft. Additionally, volunteers who scan books need to upload OCR (optical character recognition) software so that books can be converted in to “Rich Text Format” (RTF) files, which can be utilized by Bookshare and accessed by various AT for our members.
In this section you will find posts related to using AT to scan and proofread books, as well as information on how screen readers and various applications actually handle Bookshare files for our members.
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