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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. It remains an option under the Treaty, though.

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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Most of this community doesn’t have access to formal education, most of this community doesn’t have access to jobs and most of this community isn’t recognized by larger society as equals.

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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is an academic conference on access technology, full of researchers trying out new things that will help people with disabilities. My first day was hanging out at the Young Researchers seminar, which was organized by Professors Paul Blenkhorn (the UK's first professor of access tech) and the ICCHP host Klaus Miesenberger.

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Guest Post: Collections Access - Open the Door Wider

Museum 2.0

are well versed in new ideas for audience engagement and committed to opening up their institutions to increase public access. Some collections stewards, steeped as they are in professional artifact-protection standards, are reluctant to shift toward the more open version of institutional access that engagement advocates promote.

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We know, however, that we’ve only scratched the surface of meeting the global need for access to books and information. If giving disabled vets the gift of accessible reading resonates with you, I would definitely appreciate anything you can do to support our cause. The Treaty was signed on the spot by over 50 countries.

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Leveraging Impact through Technology (LIT)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Day aims to raise awareness of disability issues with a focus on the rights of persons with disabilities and the benefits derived from their integration in the social, economic, cultural and political life of their communities. One of these sub-themes is “Accessibility: removing barriers and promoting disability-inclusive development.”

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TED thought for Benetech: health care education material and Bookaccess

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of the main reasons for attending TED is to get new ideas for Benetech and for the Raising the Floor movement. This is unlike Bookshare, which is for the 1-2% of the population who qualifies for the copyright exemption. Tags: RtF TED2009 Raising the Floor Bookaccess Bookshare. And, Joy supplied my TED insight for the day.

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