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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This has created the ironic situation where blind people, who because of their disability require access to digital copies, have been effectively locked out of purchasing ebooks for the last decade. In many cases textual content is not delivered as text, but as a digital image of a page of text.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The increasing focus on digital content, rather than its printed form, and the shift to electronic distribution of ebooks pave new avenues for removing the barriers to accessibility. At Benetech, we want to ensure that in this brave new world of digital content, braille is as available as any other ebook format to those who want it.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

After all, in the world of eBooks, ten years is pretty old! We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read. In 2012, this meant a growing push to add image descriptions, especially to math and science content. DIAGRAM This increase in accessible images would not have been possible without great tools.

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Leveraging Impact through Technology (LIT)

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Here’s a glimpse at what we’re delivering: Open-content, publicly available and freely shared image descriptions and reusable graphical models to improve accessibility of NIMAC textbooks and Common Core content (this is so cool, I'm going to write another blog just on this aspect: look for the Triple Play blog!)

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App Recommendations from the TechSoup Staff

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90% of the apps that people use are free ones. PDF Viewer to look at PDF documents and also eBooks. is a free way to listen to music, sports and news from all over the earth. It lets you make audio and video calls, run online meetings, check my team’s presence status, and send instant messages. TuneInRadio.

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10 Types of Fundraising Event Software for Virtual Events

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BEACON for Adult Literacy’s peer-to-peer page draws users in with a branded banner image showcasing what this event is and the core mission—adult literacy. Download eBook. Here are the popular tools you might look into: OBS is a free and open-source software that can be used for video recording and livestreaming.

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This Digital Marketing Process Will Make You Write Better Content

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Best of all, this 7 step marketing process is easy to learn and will free your time to focus on more value-adding activities. When there are no rules, our minds are free to wander to thoughts of the future, or perhaps dwell on a particular issue of the past. Create Your Own Images. The Value Of Image Search.

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