Audio Books, Podcasts and Related Resources

Free Sources of Audio Materials

• Assistive Media (articles from recent publications)
  1. Assistive Media Archives
• Free Audio: Free Audio Books on Liberty and Freedom
  1. Free Audio's Authors' Last Name Index
  2. Free Audio's Title Index
  3. Free Audio's Subject Index
  4. The "Politics" of Free Audio
• LibriVox: Free Audio Books in the Public Domain
  1. LibriVox Catalogue
  2. LibriVox Podcasts
  3. LibriVox Forums: discussions on reading, recording and more
  4. Volunteering for LibriVox
• The Listening Booth: poems read by their authors (format: Real Audio)
• Podcasts from OpenCulture

Fee-Based & Commercial Sources of Audio Materials

• Audible
• Recorded Books

Free and Accessible Playback Software

• Foobar2000: an accessible media player can also play conventional CDs and ogg Vorbis files
• Pubcatcher (podcast program which can be run from menues and/or hotkeys)
  1. Download the Windows version of Pubcatcher
  2. Download the Mac OS X version of Pubcatcher
  3. Pubcatcher Help Files
• WebbIE is a web browser designed specifically for blind and visually-impaired people, especially those using screen readers and high levels of screen magnification. webbIE comes with a suite of accessible applications, which enable easy and accessible access to news and audio on the internet. the webbIE Accessible Applications suite include a podcast manager, a live radio player, an accessible Project Gutenburg Reader, and an RSS feed manager, all designed to work with a screen reader or any other access solution.
  1. more information about webbIE
  2. download webbIE and its accessible applications suite
  3. webbIE Download Options page
     • Accessible Podcast Downloader
     • Accessible Podcaster
     • Google RSS and Podcast Searcher
     • Accessible iTunes
     • Internet Explorer Appearance Editor

Contents of this page last updated December 17, 2007