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Curriculum Access: Newspapers


Curriculum materials, such as newspapers, are often difficult for students with vision impairments to access. Some issues include:

Newspaper articles are available in a number of formats:

If voice or enlarging software is to be used in conjunction with these, you will need to check for compatibility.

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Title and Source
Price
Comments
Book in The Sky (BiTS)
www.rsb.org.au
Free
Downloadable text (books, newspapers, learning material etc) via satelite to a portable audio playback device, The Audio Navigator
Fox News
www.foxnews.com
Free - online version of the daily paper Today's international news available on the internet
Includes some video clips
Herald Sun
www.heraldsun.com.au
Tel (03) 9292 2000
Free - online version of the daily paper Today's articles from the Herald Sun are available on the internet
Online Newspapers
www.onlinenewspapers.com
Free

Links to thousands of worldwide newspapers available on the internet
Select Australia then follow the link to the newspaper of your choice

The Age
www.theage.com.au
Free - online version of the daily paper
View newspapers for the past eight days

Today's articles from The Age available on the internet
Search facility for past 10 years - purchase articles from the Fairfax Shop in Sydney (02) 9282 3801

Today's News Now
www.visionaustralia.org.au
Free service for people who are are members of the National Information and Library Service (NILS)
(Just the cost of the phone call)
Service for people with vision impairments and print disabilities
Use your phone to access daily readings of a wide range of Australian newspapers and magazines
Can select sections of the paper
To try it call (03) 9864 9777 and use 1234 as the user number and password
Tel: 1300 654656 to obtain a user number and password

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Website editor Deb Lewis, Statewide Vision Resource Centre - Victoria, Australia. Last updated November 2007.
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