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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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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. So, in the meanwhile, we will need to rely on licenses: permissions agreements. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries. What’s next?

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 4: Adventures in Self-Publishing

Museum 2.0

I decided to self-publish The Participatory Museum for four reasons: OPENNESS: I wanted the flexibility to license and distribute the book using an open structure to promote sharing. Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. I chose the Attribution Noncommercial license.

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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. Some of them are really easy to use and some of them are geared to professional quality image editing.

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