There may be a few sides to this question:
1) Most all countries have a national library which supplies braille
and other accessible media in their native languages.  For a far from
complete yet lengthy list see this link from the DAISY Consortium:
http://www.daisy.org/members/memblist.htm

2) From an U.S. legal perspective, there is no federal statutory
requirement to provide language accommodation in the provision of
services to non-English speakers, regardless of whether or not they
have a sensory disability.  I cannot speak to the existence of possible
state laws requiring such an accommodation.  Language accommodation is
separate and apart from the context of the accessible program
requirements of Section 504 and the ADA.  There may however be isolated
policies in some states or other non-federal political entities which
do require this.  Perhaps other list members are better informed on
this point than me.

3) On the question of obtaining accessible content, here are some
thoughts:
--if the individual is a citizen of another country, they can likely
receive services from their native national library even while living
in the USA;
--some access organizations within the USA supply non-English texts,
although the number of available works to choose from may be rather
small.  Try the RFB&D or APH online catalogs;
--many older "classic" texts in languages other than English can be
found on the net in electronic form.  Unfortunately, Project Gutenberg
only has a few non-English books.  I noticed only 8 in Spanish and only
12 in French.  I did not take the time to do a good search for some
better sites, but here are a few:
http://www.griffe.com/projects/worldlit/etexts/
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/admin/foreign.html
http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/rr/forlang.html

I don't know if this any of this actually answered your question.  If
you have any more specific questions, I would be glad to lend a hand.

Steve Noble
Policy Analyst
Kentucky Assistive Technology Service Network
Co-Listowner, AXSLIB-L, Access to Libraries Listserv
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--- michael krieg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>     I am a library science student and was wondering how non-English
> speakers who are blind or deaf are helped at libraries for the
> disabled?
>     What Braille, audio or special materials are available in other
> languages?
>     Thank you.
>                                             Sincerely,
>                                             Michael Krieg
>
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