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DIAGRAM Center

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. Of course, just as we're solving the text problem, more and more content is moving to richer, more visual forms like graphics, simulations and flash!

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The Kindle: Pretty Cool!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Amazon.com: Kindle This is the first ebook product that gives me a vision of where the book is going to go. And, while not perfect, it gives a vision of where this technology will go. The flash at each page turn was initially bothersome, but quickly faded from notice. It's comfortable to hold and to read.

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MagnaFlyer: New Tech Helping People with Central Vision Loss

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For more than 20 years I’ve worked to harness the power of technology to do social good. So for me, it was incredibly cool to be introduced to a new piece of technology that has a clever and (as far as I know) new approach to making information accessible to people with vision impairments.

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