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Big News at Benetech (and for me!)

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Born Accessible: Working with publishers to ensure that any new ebook is accessible to people who read differently - with the goal of one day making Bookshare obsolete. Data for Inclusion: Enabling people with disabilities to provide firsthand reports on the issues they face to inform policy at the local, national, and global level.

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

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Even back then, we included information about his service in the box of each Arkenstone Reader because we knew people would rather not have to scan a book before reading it! that made Bookshare possible, by putting the power to make accessible books into the hands of blind people in far more countries of the world.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

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We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. If any single publisher or author of any one of the more than 130,000 accessible books in our library gets antsy, they can send a notice to VISA and MasterCard and say, stop money from going to Benetech and Bookshare. Wonderful stuff.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

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We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. If any single publisher or author of any one of the more than 130,000 accessible books in our library gets antsy, they can send a notice to VISA and MasterCard and say, stop money from going to Benetech and Bookshare. Wonderful stuff.

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Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

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Organized by the nonprofit group Access and sponsored by Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla and other major tech companies, the conference brought together business leaders, policy makers and online activists, especially from the Arabic-speaking world. When you restrict me from doing this, you violate my human rights."