Bookshare introduced its services in Sri Lanka. They offer free memberships to all end users in Sri Lanka.
This way, all books produced in Sri Lanka can be made available from this single platform + more than 450000 titles available on Bookshare.
In order to achieve the above, the Bookshare team visited Sri Lanka in December 2018 and partnered with The Employers’ Federation of Ceylon. It is the first time in the history that Sri Lankan vision impaired community got the opportunity to get the Bookshare Library membership free of cost.
The Bookshare team was accompanied by a team from Enable India [www.enableindia.org]
Who is India’s leading organization working for Digital Literacy and Employment for persons
With visual Impairment.
The Employers’ Federation of Ceylon together with the #InternationalLabourOrganisationSriLanka (ILO) and Bookshare conducted a training on e-book editing for 20 participants who have a passion in creating e-books in accessible formats for vision impaired persons and people with print disabilities in December 2018 at The Employers’ Federation of Ceylon. Participants were trained on how to create e-books in English, Sinhala and Tamil languages. The participants were also sensitized on Orientation and skill development of persons with Visual and print disabilities for accessing bookshare system, granting free membership, membership roles and procedure for bookshare and Digital literacy.
With more and more titles being uploaded in more languages, Bookshare is the world’s most popular source of accessible reading resource for more than 5,50,000 print disabled individuals.
Picture descriptions for vision impaired persons:
1 Ayasana training participants.
2 Dr. Homiyor and Manique with the audience.
3 Dr. Homiyor and Manique.
4 Dr. Homiyor and Manique conducting the training.
5 Dr. Homiyo, manique and asoka.
6 Manique with the participants.
7 Participantss attending the session (View from the back)
8 Front view of the participants.
9 Participants speaking.
10 Practical session.
11 Teaching e-book editing.
12 Ms. Zenath from Bookshare conducting the session.
Manique Gunaratne
Manager – Specialise Training and Disability Resource Centre of The Employers’ Federation of Ceylon
