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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

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Benetech has long been a pioneer in providing innovative services to people with print disabilities. This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities.

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Thank You, Gerardo!

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A passionate technology-for-good advocate, Gerardo has made major contributions to Benetech’s social mission since he joined us over four years ago. He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

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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. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program.

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. The homeless services nonprofit, Invisible People , does virtual case management check-ins with homeless clients by phone to see what they need and to provide them with resources.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

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The world has finally moved beyond just electronically creating books that are then distributed as ordinary print books to actually delivering digital ebooks. In technical terms, this means that the next version of the DAISY format, version 4, will be the same as EPUB3, the main format used by commercial publishers of ebooks.

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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

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Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development. In 2011, we began collaborating with the Mada Center (Qatar Assistive Technology Center) to create accessible Arabic-language digital books.

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Blackbaud Discontinued Crystal Reports – Now What?

Cloud 4 Good

However, unless you engage a partner, such as Cloud for Good, who can offer infrastructure and reporting services, this is an option that will require substantial up-skilling of your nonprofit team’s technical knowledge and infrastructure, in addition to causing your organization operational delays due to the lack of automation. .