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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 15, 2012
This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
Thousands of ebooks are pouring into the collection each month thanks to the dedication of our volunteers around the world and partnerships with more than 500 socially responsible publishers who donate their digital files. These milestones represent a giant leap forward in the number of students and individuals we serve.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
One of the biggest reasons is that among people who are blind, braille literacy has been linked with higher education levels, higher likelihood of employment and higher income. Data from the American Printing House for the Blind’s annual registry of legally blind students shows that in 2012 only 8.8% Accordingly, U.S.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
It became a burden to his family and caregivers to constantly drop what they were doing to turn a page, so he began seeking out ebooks. It also demonstrates how each ebook that is added to the Bookshare collection is a brick in our members’ foundation of independence and inclusion. Eventually he had to ask others to turn pages for him.
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. So, the student might be able to read only 60% of the relevant content, and have no idea about what the equations say.
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