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Go Green with Video, Audio, and Web Conferencing

Tech Soup

The multimedia applications allow virtual work groups to use the Internet to see each others' faces in small windows on their monitors, hear each others' voices on computer speakers, deliver presentations, edit files, and collaborate on whiteboards. So far, the Skype premium mobile phone app allows only group audio calls.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I’d like to share our experience with Lavelle, where they took a series of calculated risks in grantmaking. Worth Trust , an Indian social enterprise providing employment to people with disabilities, partnered with Bookshare to provide book-processing services and expand the library.

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Advancing Reading Equality with Bookshare’s Exponential Growth

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. Bookshare titles range from vocational to research to teacher-recommended reading.

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New and Notable: What’s Coming With WordPress 4.9

Byte Technology

Some people have already been fortunate to get a beta version preview of the update and are sharing some of the tantalizing tidbits. And if you want feedback on your theme changes, you can share a preview with friends and colleagues with a dedicated URL. which is due for release on November 14 th. Read on for a small look ahead.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. 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. And that’s how Bookshare was founded.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem. I decided to follow through and attend.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. How can we make tactiles easier to produce, use and share?

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