eBook Goal Group Law 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
The miracle of ebooks What if we had the ability to overcome these accessibility barriers, barriers that affect most of humanity, not just people with identified disabilities, wouldn’t we have the moral obligation to act? We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 24, 2018
Most importantly, he walked me through how to frame the goal of any agreement with another organization, and to think through scenarios of how it might go sour. What if we could scan once, proofread the resulting scan, and share that ebook with tens of thousands of eager readers? He called these “imaginary horribles.”
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. federal law supports braille instruction. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem. Accordingly, U.S.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! The context We’ve been supporting the World Blind Union and other groups in the pursuit of a Treaty for the Visually Impaired for the last five or six years.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. I wrote a post at the time with the detailed suggestions from the expert group about the text of the draft. So, in the U.S.,
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 10, 2009
But, it's a dream that the commercial ebook vendors keep dashing. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible. We just announced that a major publishing group (Hachette) has voluntarily decided to help Bookshare deliver high-quality versions of their books to people with disabilities.
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