Can Your Blog Talk?
Depending on the scope of your blog and your audience you may be seriously interested in getting your blog converted to audio. Autocast is a free open-sourced program that creates mp3 audio files from your blog.
Why on earth would this be helpful for medical librarians? Well are you a consumer health librarian who has a consumer health information blog? There are many seeing impared people (blind, elderly, macular degeneration, etc.) who need and seek access to health information. What about blind librarians? They would want to know the most current information and helpful resources.
Blind Chance: David Faucheux's Audio Web Log is a blind librarian who provides other librarians with an inside look at the world of the blind. All librarians, web designers, and accessiblity experts should take note and listen to Yahoo, Part I: An Audio Maze for Blind?, Yahoo, Part II: Beyond the Maze, Lesson for Librarians: 'You know about biology, I know about being blind', and 'Blind like me': Try Web surfing with accessibility software and a blindfold.
He is also a authored Is There a Place for Us? Toward the Full Inclusion of Blind and Other Librarians with Disabilities, Interface Magazine Volume 25, Number 1, 2003.

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