Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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Accessibility and ACTA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A great (bad) example is Adobe, one of the leading ebook technology vendors, who just introduced their Digital Editions. Unfortunately, although accessibility was in the prior Adobe product, the Digital Rights Management (DRM) of Digital Editions locks out print disabled people.

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Literacy for a billion: PlanetRead

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The team I met were working on multimedia literacy content as part of Bookbox, and were busy using Adobe products to deliver cool ways to learn to read. They have also done extensive measurements of their impact and see real progress on advancing literacy. Another example of scale, South Asian style!

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