Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 22, 2013
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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 28, 2014
Gerardo’s contributions related to the Benetech Global Literacy Program include: Overseeing the building of the tech infrastructure that has taken Bookshare from serving tens of thousands of members to over 300,000 members, with a rapidly growing collection of 280,000+ accessible ebooks.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
After all, in the world of eBooks, ten years is pretty old! For those who want to use audio with other mobile devices or DAISY players, we have added DAISY audio and MP3 format download capability for all of our titles, in addition to our existing DAISY text and Braille Ready Format (BRF) options. Thanks again!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 3, 2011
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!)
Tech Soup
APRIL 7, 2014
PDF Viewer to look at PDF documents and also eBooks. It lets you make audio and video calls, run online meetings, check my team’s presence status, and send instant messages. Images: TechSoup Global. This app has stuff to distract my kids, without disabling some of the things I want to have still work. I also use the Lync.
Qgiv
APRIL 26, 2021
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. OBS users can create live scenes made up of different windows, images, webcams, capture cards, and more. Bidding Software. Graphics Software.
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