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Bookshare Users Downloading Long-Awaited Apple e-Book App

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Benetech got a call recently from an excited Bookshare member who had been waiting to download our new Read2Go accessible e-book application for Apple devices. Graduate student Maria Georgakarakou, who is blind, gave us a rave review for the Read2Go app which allows those with print disabilities to listen to books in the DAISY audio format.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. Even in the United States, this was true of probably a quarter of our student users.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

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What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. At the close of 2012, we are five years into our work in education and are serving over 230,000 students.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

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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. Conclusion TPMs are blunt and frequently stupid instruments.

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10 Volunteer Training Ideas for Onboarding All Types of Volunteers

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Then download the Volunteer Onboarding Essentials Checklist to keep on hand to help you onboard all your new volunteers! You can decide whether the story is written, told in video , or audio, spoken person to person or to a group, or better yet, in some combination of the above. Be there when your volunteers arrive.

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7 Ways to Create a More Diverse and Inclusive Virtual Event

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When pricing your virtual event, consider including a free ticket tier, pay what you can (PWYC) options, and student pricing. Include audio and visual closed captioning to ensure that all audiences can maximize their event experience. If you understand that PWYC isn’t quite right for your audience, instead offer tickets by donation.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

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Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. The Bookshare promise to American students with disabilities is that if they need a book for education, Bookshare will ensure that they have it. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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