Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

The digital content is presented as text, but the built-in read-aloud capability is disabled because of ambiguity over audio rights. So, the student might be able to read only 60% of the relevant content, and have no idea about what the equations say. Amazon now ships more ebooks than print books in the United States.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Before Benetech was founded, blind people were read to either in person by a family member, volunteer, or paid reader, or via audio cassette tape. Fundamentally, the Arkenstone Reader allowed blind people to create their own personal ebook as a text file that could be read in something like Microsoft Word. The first was the ebook.

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