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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
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!
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
Benetech was a proud endorser of these objections (under our legal organizational name of Beneficent Technology, Inc.). We think the best long-term way to solve this equal access problem is, well, equal access. And, increasingly, that means through inexpensive e-readers like the Amazon Kindle.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
“As organizations,” Osborne said, “we must liberate spending to focus on the promotion, learning and innovation around braille,” and recognize that we ought to embrace today’s changing economics and technology so that braille can be part of an equation which delivers access to information for all, not just to those who can afford it.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 20, 2015
We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology). No problem! Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia. and we needed more help.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
Bookshare’s role was mixed: we didn’t end up attending many of these meetings and critiqued early efforts that were crippled by heavy-handed publisher influence, although we did propose at one point to supply technology to TIGAR based on Bookshare. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education. All e-books should have an audio capacity, using whatever smartphone or music playing device a person has in their pocket.
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