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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
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
At Benetech, we always ask ourselves how our existing successful programs can reach more people who need our services and how we can apply technology in new ways to enrich and improve more lives. a11y accessibility Bookshare Braille DAISY ebooks Global Literacy print disabilities Reading' The majority of our members are U.S.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Love of the print book. We can do better!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As We strongly support this position and believe the digital content revolution holds the best promise for the future of braille.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
Benetech was a proud endorser of these objections (under our legal organizational name of Beneficent Technology, Inc.). People with print disabilities are the most natural customers in the world for digital versions of books. She wants to see every piece of content that is born digital be born accessible.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Thanks again!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.
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