When will Google Book Search be fully accessible for all print disabled users?
Currently images show reference information that cannot be accessed as text and spoken by a screen reader. This is a major discrimination for proposal writers, memoirists, reviewers, researchers in general. Note that U.S. copyright provides exemptions for print disabled persons and organizations such as bookshare.org provide readable text to special ed students as well as all certified print disabled subscribers. If there’s a way around his limit in Google Book Search, please let me and others know. I recently discovered multiple references to a paper I had written in 1975, but could not access critiques of nor progressions from those results. Further experiences are related in http://asyourworldchanges.wordpress.com/2007/07/14/seeing-through-google-book-search/ The blog search often shows queries such as “reading google book images” that suggest others are hampered in their personal or professional research. Distributing out of print books in PDF is kind, and useful for some. However
