Scottish Accessible Book Library
The Books for All report recommended creating a Scottish Accessible Resources Network to help schools and pupils share accessible resources and in so doing improve provision and reduce duplication. Over the next few months CALL, LTS and SCRAN are going to work together to create an example database which will list accessible books that have already been created, and will also have some samples of books in a range of accessible formats. We would like to make a range of resources available for download, covering primary and secondary, different subjects, and different types of materials (e.g. reading books, textbooks, worksheets, assessment and exam papers). If you would either like to donate a resource or tell us which books you would like and in which format, please add a comment to this post. The database can have both copyright and non-copyright material and the copyrght resources will only be available for pupils who are copyright exempt, which at the moment means those with either a visual impairment or a physical difficulty in handling books or turning pages.
This is a very exciting development and we hope it will demonstrate the possibilities for sharing accessible resources, and also provide a mechanism for it – the database will have a facility for teachers to upload adapted resources that they have created.
Please post a comment with the books you would like to donate or see available on the database, and the format (e.g. PDF, Daisy, Clicker, DOC so you can change the font and print it out, plain text so you can print Braille, with symbols, audio etc).
