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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 22, 2013
Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. Love of the print book. It made me who I am.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
Bookshare has over 175,000 total titles and well over 1 million book downloads each year, mostly by our student members of all ages. In 2012, this meant a growing push to add image descriptions, especially to math and science content. After all, in the world of eBooks, ten years is pretty old! Have an Android device?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 7, 2013
The View from an Authorized Entity Many Bookshare users (and potential Bookshare users!) That makes it legal in these countries for people with these disabilities, and the organizations that serve them, to make accessible versions of books without having to get permission from the author or publisher. Defines Authorized Entity.
Connection Cafe
JULY 15, 2019
Sure, you could pay for some audio books — but there are also a wealth of podcasts that are just as, if not more interesting than said books. Just make sure to add downloading a few of these to your packing list before you take off on your next summer adventure! The sgENGAGE Podcast. Because the truth is, nonprofits ARE messy.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. These ebooks can be instantly turned into the accessible format needed by the student with a disability, such as braille, enlarged print, or our most common format, audio through a computerized synthetic voice.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 12, 2014
This guest post was written by Steve Yalowitz, one of its authors. I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective. Bilingualism in the U.S.
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