2010 Annual Conference Guide Available in Accessible Formats for ALL Kinds of Readers

Once again, ReadHowYouWant is proud to offer you the Conference Guide to the ALA in multiple accessible formats! Our award winning technology converts standard books into five different EasyRead® print formats as well as braille, DAISY, and e-books so that visually impaired and reading disabled persons can read all kinds of books. We use the same technology to create accessible editions of the official ALA guide. Over 7,000 librarians downloaded our editions of the ALA 2008 Annual Conference documents.

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Before you download your ALA Conference Guide, click here for a chart of your formatting options. The download links to the Conference Guide are below.

EasyRead® Print Formats

Our EasyRead® format has been designed to make reading easier for all kinds of readers. EasyRead® books have been optimized to improve both word recognition and ease of eye tracking by adjusting word and line spacing. Line spacing has been increased to stop the eye moving to adjacent lines, but is still close enough for the line above and below to be used as an eye tracking guide. Hyphenation has been minimized.
 

	EasyRead® Comfort for people who don’t yet need large print, but find normal type tiring: Click here to download the Annual Conference Guide in EasyRead® Comfort format
	EasyRead® Large for people with reduced vision: Click here to download the Annual Conference Guide in EasyRead® Large format
	EasyRead® Large Bold for people with retinal problems who need to read high contrast text: Click here to download the Annual Conference Guide in EasyRead® Large Bold format

EasyRead® Super Large Formats

Our EasyRead® Super Large Formats have been designed to make reading easier for people with a broad range of vision issues. The EasyRead® SuperLarge books are available in:

	EasyRead® Super Large 18pt: Click here to download the Annual Conference Guide in EasyRead® Super Large 18pt
	EasyRead® Super Large 20pt: Click here to download the Annual Conference Guide in EasyRead® Super Large 20pt
	EasyRead® Super Large 24pt: Click here to download the Annual Conference Guide in EasyRead® Super Large 24pt

BRAILLE

ReadHowYouWant's braille store offers Grade 2 (contracted) braille files. We have developed a house style that supports automated transcription while maintaining accuracy. Our files meet the BANA standard. These files may be read with a refreshable (electronic) braille display or embossed to make traditional braille books.

Our braille is transcribed using the Carnegie Mellon Dictionary, and only the words found in the dictionary are contracted. Therefore, it is easily understood by anyone with a reading knowledge of braille. We do not split words at line ends because this makes reading more difficult, particularly for newer braille readers. We are working with several organizations to produce braille books for library use.

We offer a large number of current in-copyright as well as classic titles in Braille. Visit our Braille site for details at http://www.readhowyouwant.com/braille/

Click here to download the Annual Conference Guide in braille

DAISY

DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) is a talking book format that synchronizes an audio rendition with the written text. DAISY books play on DAISY players, which are either standalone units or computer applications. DAISY is ideal for vision-impaired and blind readers, dyslexic readers, and for readers who are unable to hold a conventional book or turn pages. ReadHowYouWant is a member of the DAISY Consortium and has developed a method of automatically converting books into DAISY format. We are the first company to publish DAISY books commercially. See our DAISY site at http://www.readhowyouwant.com/daisy/ for free samples.

DAISY empowers a reader to:

• Listen to the text as it is read aloud.
• Read the text in very large fonts.
• Read the text while listening to the audio.
• Read and listen to the text without using one's hands.
• Bookmark passages.

Click here to download the Annual Program Guide in DAISY