Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program.

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Literacy eBook Images Accessibility 208

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities. said Stevie.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

Few people want to read a 388-page book online, and I've received several notes from people who checked out the online version and then decided to buy a physical or ebook copy. available for free at your library and on the web. Why does it matter that CreateSpace is owned by Amazon? And that shocked me.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The first was the ebook. Fundamentally, the Arkenstone Reader allowed blind people to create their own personal ebook as a text file that could be read in something like Microsoft Word. By the time of Bookshare’s creation in 2001, new and better XML digital book formats had been developed.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Patrick Duggan, Digital Marketing Manager. Includes Netflix, Hulu, Xfinity, Amazon and lots of others. Overdrive media console – is an audio and ebook downloader and reader app which is especially useful for ebooks you get from the library. Amir Shirani – Digital Marketing Specialist.

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