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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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The miracle of ebooks What if we had the ability to overcome these accessibility barriers, barriers that affect most of humanity, not just people with identified disabilities, wouldn’t we have the moral obligation to act? We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!

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Why Your Country Should Ratify the Marrakesh Treaty

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The international legal landscape for people with these disabilities dramatically changed on June 28, 2013, when the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled. It is politically popular.

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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

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have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. So, this means books, periodicals and other similar textual works, including audio versions of those titles. It doesn’t cover movies. Article 2(c).

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

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Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. All e-books should have an audio capacity, using whatever smartphone or music playing device a person has in their pocket. a11y accessibility Bookshare disabilities ebooks education equality Reading students tech4good UNICEF'

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10 Types of Fundraising Event Software for Virtual Events

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Virtual events have skyrocketed in popularity, with more and more nonprofits moving to the digital space to facilitate traditional face-to-face engagement efforts like auctions, galas, and walkathons. Download eBook. Master peer-to-peer fundraising by connecting with your incredible supporters. Bidding Software.

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This Digital Marketing Process Will Make You Write Better Content

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Your ability to add value to the conversation, whether by facilitating a thoughtful discussion or by presenting industry changing data, is what gives your content meaning. For example, you can take 5 related blog posts and combine them into a massive ebook or white paper to distribute as a content upgrade.

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