Accessibility eBook Library Presentation 
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. To bring the power of books to everybody on this planet, we must make books truly accessible. Third, the print book is not universally accessible.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
The nonprofit Benetech team built the revolutionary Bookshare library for this community, all online, and based on the powerfully flexible ebook. You can take an ebook, push a button and make it Braille. This results in an ebook, which can be shared by Bookshare legally with many thousands of other disabled readers.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 15, 2012
Poet supports image descriptions for electronic books created in the international DAISY standard for digital talking books and will be compatible with descriptions for ebooks in the EPUB3 format. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
The first issue is that the treaty would not permit direct access by consumers to international authorized entities. Everyone who is not disabled globally can directly access Amazon.com and order books. Being silent on the big issue of circumvention would lead to a world where accessibility could be prohibited by contract.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 11, 2013
Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development. In the first installment of this series, I described the Bookshare International library and where we hope to take it next.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. The road toward full access for braille readers has a number of other hurdles that must be overcome.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 7, 2013
Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities.
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