When looking for schoolbooks for the severely dyslexic little brother of a friend we tried looking for audio books. Turned out there was an organisation which used to deal with that here. Notice "was". For schoolbooks which had no audio book available from the publisher they'd got teachers who volunteered to record audio books for blind students. Guess what the publishers thought of that. Now they aren't allowed hand out recordings to blind students and the publishers aren't interested in making or distributing any since the market is so small.
There's an interesting comment on Sen. Ford's practice of filing bills that go nowhere in today's Charleston paper: "Ford continues to file a stack of bills every session. Not many make it into the law, at least not directly. He puts the bills on record to please his constituents and then pursues other avenues to get them in the law books." http://www.charleston.net/news/2009/jan/14/the_odd_couple68284/ I guess it's better to satisfy a complaining constituent that way than to attach the text to some bill that might actually pass.
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When looking for schoolbooks for the severely dyslexic little brother of a friend we tried looking for audio books. Turned out there was an organisation which used to deal with that here. Notice "was". For schoolbooks which had no audio book available from the publisher they'd got teachers who volunteered to record audio books for blind students. Guess what the publishers thought of that. Now they aren't allowed hand out recordings to blind students and the publishers aren't interested in making or distributing any since the market is so small.
Did you check with Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic? They do require documentation of a print disability for membership.
There's an interesting comment on Sen. Ford's practice of filing bills that go nowhere in today's Charleston paper: "Ford continues to file a stack of bills every session. Not many make it into the law, at least not directly. He puts the bills on record to please his constituents and then pursues other avenues to get them in the law books." http://www.charleston.net/news/2009/jan/14/the_odd_couple68284/ I guess it's better to satisfy a complaining constituent that way than to attach the text to some bill that might actually pass.
Unfortunately, it's real: http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/56.htm
Alternatively, you could implement RFC 1149