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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility.

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Record Your Grandma's Stories: StoryCorps' National Day of Listening is Nov. 27

Have Fun - Do Good

StoryCorps provides a free, downloadable Do-It-Yourself Instruction Guide , as well as an Education Toolkit to use in a classroom or library, and a Community Service Toolkit to use in, "veteran’s hospitals, senior centers, homeless shelters, and other community centers." I also like their Great Question List.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Although legal and regulatory requirements stipulate that schools must provide accessible ‘equivalent’ resources for students with disabilities, in practice the majority of these students do not have equal access to textbooks and other instructional materials that make up the primary resources of the general curriculum.

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Top 11 Tips for Hosting a Virtual Conference

AccelEvents

Do they have proper audio and video setup? Pre-recorded content allows for greater flexibility in scheduling the conference and it allows you to add the session to a content library for attendees to access even after the session or conference is over. . Can they upload and connect their slide show? Early on, send updates.

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Top 11 Tips for Hosting a Virtual Conference

AccelEvents

Do they have proper audio and video setup? Pre-recorded content allows for greater flexibility in scheduling the conference and it allows you to add the session to a content library for attendees to access even after the session or conference is over. . Can they upload and connect their slide show? Early on, send updates.

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