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Join Benetech in the Skoll Foundation’s 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Challenge!

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To communicate his thoughts, he uses an alternative augmentative communication device. With Bookshare’s accessible ebooks and reading tools, Zach made a successful transition to college. This wasn’t always the case, though. Tasks like turning a printed page are difficult for him, which makes reading standard print discouraging.

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Bright Idea: Hybrid Scavenger Hunt Fundraiser

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass had to find a socially distant alternative to their annual Bowl for Kids’ Sake fundraiser. You could have teams submit pictures of completed challenges as an alternative to an app. Download eBook. What they did. Ultimately, your focus should be on fundraising.

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Getting Close to a Treaty!

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We believe that this means that circumvention needs to be addressed in the Treaty to ensure that access does not become a dead letter in an increasingly digital world, where people with disabilities get locked out of ebook content by contractual and technical means. Alternative B qualifies this issue so much as to make it ineffective.

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DIAGRAM Center

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This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. Of course, just as we're solving the text problem, more and more content is moving to richer, more visual forms like graphics, simulations and flash!

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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

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Poet supports image descriptions for electronic books created in the international DAISY standard for digital talking books and will be compatible with descriptions for ebooks in the EPUB3 format. The teacher could then add alternate image descriptions and download the book again when they are done.

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Objecting to Accessibility Weaseling

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You might ask: why would an organization that in many ways provides a competitive alternative to e-readers object to e-readers being exempted from accessibility requirements? We all want the same ebook that people without disabilities buy (sorry, I mean license) to work perfectly well for people who are blind, physically disabled or dyslexic.

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How to Fundraise with AI for Nonprofits

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These tools help you enhance visuals, apply filters, or suggest alternative compositions, which can speed up the editing process. Check out this eBook to help you get started on your AI journey. This helps you deliver impactful content across your organization. ChatGPT Prompts for Nonprofits: Get Started Today [Samples].