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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The miracle of ebooks What if we had the ability to overcome these accessibility barriers, barriers that affect most of humanity, not just people with identified disabilities, wouldn’t we have the moral obligation to act? We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!

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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The View from an Authorized Entity Many Bookshare users (and potential Bookshare users!) First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The world has finally moved beyond just electronically creating books that are then distributed as ordinary print books to actually delivering digital ebooks. In technical terms, this means that the next version of the DAISY format, version 4, will be the same as EPUB3, the main format used by commercial publishers of ebooks.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. The Bookshare library is made possible by a copyright exception: Section 121 of the United States Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment. The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education.

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Free Graphics Software and Images

Tech Soup

This is a round-up of some of the free graphics tools that various folks have recommended to me including some sources for copyright free images. It also creates digital documents like eBooks, reports, PDFs, and webpages. " These are fine for noncommercial use by charities or libraries with attribution to the author.

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