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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Having learning disabilities or various learning differences, they need alternative reading environments that rely on their strengths rather than on their weaknesses. Schools are back in session, and with them millions of American children who struggle daily to learn using traditional printed books.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

What is even cooler is that Perseus Books, Patrick's publisher, reached out to us during the production process to make sure that the book was available to people with print disabilities.

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OCTOBER 19, 2013

Of course, we talked about data entry and QA testing, but also less obvious and exciting alternatives that have great potential both to revitalize the South Bronx and address the problem of the loss of American manufacturing jobs. Brainstorming what these jobs might look like was one of the highlights of our conversation.

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MARCH 28, 2011

We don't think that SMS was a very good measure of building damage, relative to the obvious alternative of using a map of building locations. If an SMS stream was ever going to work as a pattern measure, it was going to be in a context like this -- and it didn't work very well.

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MAY 15, 2012

The teacher could then add alternate image descriptions and download the book again when they are done. Any ebook in the DAISY 3 format can be submitted for image descriptions and read by DAISY compatible software that supports image description playback.

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JUNE 24, 2010

This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico).

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

In addition, I’ve learned alternate approaches to resolving the technical challenges that abound in statistical coding from the talented team of HRDAG statisticians I worked alongside. I’ve picked up more tricks of the trade in six months at HRDAG than I did in all of college.

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MARCH 4, 2007

I've decided to work on this, not as an alternative to the enabling environment goals but to complete them. In spite of that, it would be great if GAID could outline some big ideas about using ICTs to make real impact on the global poor. A cogent vision could mobilize some substantial resources.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Over 90% of these people live in third world countries, where books and newspapers in Braille or other alternative formats are very difficult to acquire. According to a 2002 WHO estimate, there are 162 million visually impaired people in the world.

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JUNE 14, 2009

Putting on my technical hat, I pointed out that the technical advances needed to make synthetic speech a reasonable alternative to human narration were years away and that gave author’s plenty of time to price these conditions into their negotiations with publishers.

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JANUARY 17, 2014

In addition, Section 121 is quite short and doesn’t explicitly discuss some important accessibility issues, such as making the content of pictures, math equations and diagrams available in alternate forms, like textual descriptions or tactile graphics (see the next section on this!).

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OCTOBER 28, 2005

Gone is the de facto censorship that resulted from publishers of texts in alternative formats trying to cater to their largest demographic. Since any user can contribute a scanned book to the site, it takes just one person to add a book to the collection.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2006

To get that book in large-print or as an audio book somebody else (the publisher, in most instances) had to decide to make the book available in alternative formats. There are some options, but the selection is limited: fewer than 5% of books are available in accessible media.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2014

For instance, about 40 per cent more eighth-grade students with disabilities are reading below the basic achievement level compared with peers without disabilities.

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JULY 27, 2011

They note that whenever industry wants intellectual property action globally, they only want a treaty: why should people with disabilities settle for a softer alternative? The advocates for people with disabilities strongly favor a treaty.

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JULY 16, 2006

Any IT setup has to be distributed as we saw so many single point data sources taken out by Hurricane Katrina, with no alternate location for getting same data stream. Sure, not as important as search and rescue, food and water, but I think it's up there with healing from the incident. - Information management on a large scale.

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