Bookbole.com is seeking ideas on creating a sustainable and scalable user verification system. The goal is to ensure that Bookbole is reaching its intended users i.e. print-impaired, caregivers of print-impaired or organisations /individuals accessing for the print-impaired and NOT sighted users who are none of the above.
Archive for November, 2009
Workable User-Verification system for Bookbole: A Call for Ideas
Posted in Inclusive Planet, tagged Call for Ideas, Inclusive Planet on November 29, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Braille without Borders
Posted in Inclusive Planet Staff Picks on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A couple of weeks earlier, Yoshi joined us as a new member on BookBole. She is a young aspiring social entrepreneur whose dream is to set up a reading caravan project in Thailand. And she is currently in the final stages of completion of a one year course at the International Institute for Social Entrepreneurship(IISE) [...]
How Equal is Equal?
Posted in GEEKABLE, tagged equality, military schools, persons with disability on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We may not have a problem building a few ramps in movie theatres and malls or reserving desk-jobs. But what about areas where the average person has long held a monopoly? Or areas where we may feel disabled persons cannot be ‘accommodated’ easily. Like the army. We seem to be unwilling to even let disabled [...]
Khan Academy
Posted in Inclusive Planet Staff Picks on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It might be a bit strange to pick a site where all of the content is in video, but our research shows that Youtube is a pretty popular site for our users. So, today, we would like to feature the Khan Academy. The Khan Acadamy was started by the efforts of Sal Khan to realize [...]
Raising Pandu
Posted in Inclusive Planet Staff Picks on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Fayre couple visited India to adopt a 5-year-old boy who was born blind, abandoned at a hospital gate, and who had subsequently spent the last five years isolated in an orphanage with virtually no human contact. Reading this blog gave me cheer and hope…. Lots of hope. Read about this loveable family and the [...]
Sandi Wassmer's Blog
Posted in Inclusive Planet Staff Picks on November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In today’s staff pick we feature Sandi Wassmer’s blog which is on the Action for Blind website. Sandi is a businesswoman based in UK, who registered blind a year ago, and blogs about the ‘shenanigans of visual impairment’. Her posts cover her day to day experiences as a blind person, and tend to address a [...]
Marco’s accessibility blog
Posted in Inclusive Planet Staff Picks on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first blog which are covering as part of the BookBolé staff picks is Marco’s Accessibility Blog. Marco’s blog covers accessibility related topics, and offers musings, tips and tricks. Marco has an overall experience of over 13 years in the assistive technology field, and has worked with companies like Freedom Scientific and Mozilla. He has quite [...]
BookBolé Staff Picks
Posted in Inclusive Planet Staff Picks on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BookBolé is all about accessible content for persons with visual impairment. During one of our team meetings we came up with the idea of BookBolé Staff Picks. The concept is simple, the BookBolé team will share links to blogs, websites and other resources which could be relevant for the visually impaired. We have come across brilliant blogs written [...]
The BookBolé Vision
Posted in Inclusive Planet Updates, Inclusive Planet Vision on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post briefly describes the BookBolé project and seeks to articulate our vision The Need One of the biggest challenges in the world of the visually impaired – the lack of accessible content i.e. content in formats accessible by the blind such as audio, digital text that can be ‘read out’ by a screen reading software, [...]
