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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

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Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages. Digitally processing Arabic-language content is no easy task.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In 2012, this meant a growing push to add image descriptions, especially to math and science content. Our team also made a dramatic investment in teacher training efforts, by not only providing several webinars each month, but also delivering our hands-on professional development workshops nationwide. Is Spanish more your bag?

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