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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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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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And what are some of the social benefits and impact that may result from such a relationship? Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia.

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TechSoup Global Donor Partner Profile: BetterWorld Telecom

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They supply charities, libraries and foundations with discounted Cisco and Polycom office phones. These are packaged with discounted voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone services that unify all your organization's telephones, mobile phones, fax machines, and computers through a virtual PBX software application.

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Supporting Teleworkers with the Right Tech for Success

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As part of celebrating Earth Day throughout the month of April, we'll be featuring posts about how to make your nonprofit or library. ReadyTalk’s audio and web conferencing can help managers realize a variety of benefits: Employee engagement. Reduced environmental impact. more environmentally friendly. confidence.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS. My main point is that the two high grounds are not the name in impact.

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43 Digital Marketing Tools & Resources for Nonprofits

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Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. See also Duda , SquareSpace , and Wired Impact. Year.ly :: yearly.report Yearly makes it easy to design online annual and quarterly impact reports.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

If you're not print-disabled, you can stroll into your favorite bookstore or library, browse the shelves, pick a title you like, open it up, and jump right in. To get that book in large-print or as an audio book somebody else (the publisher, in most instances) had to decide to make the book available in alternative formats.

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