Almost Weekly Round-up

Here’s this week’s summary from the sgLEAD discussion postings:

1) Accessibility: The Current Situation and New Directions (July 2005)

Re-discovered this article that a colleague sent to me (Jul 2005):
“Kevin Carey describes accessibility by disabled people to digital information systems across broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet, looks into the future and makes recommendations.” … [Read More]

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2) Project Gutenberg’s Distributed Proofreaders (PGDP)

Shared by Yi Lin: “PGDP is a support site for people to volunteer, taking part in the process of making an e-book as proofreaders for the OCR scans from the books. Own time own target. Very interesting way of volunteering at the comfort of own home. “Preserving history, one page at a time.” [Read More]