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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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!

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A Call for Millions: Ending the Global Book Famine for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Cheap devices and internet connectivity mean everything is digital. We have the ebooks. The Global Treaty for the Blind makes it legal to create ebooks for people with disabilities without having to pay a royalty or getting permission. We have hundreds of thousands of ebooks in a dozen languages already available globally.

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Start Using AI in 2024

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Each of these tools could be the subject of its own article, and the internet abounds with resources on how to utilise them. To get started, download NFPs.AI’s Introduction to AI for Nonprofits eBook. However, the best starting point might be to engage with projects that spark joy. Image created using DALLE 3 through ChatGPT

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12 Online Fundraising Tools to Watch in 2019

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Emotion AI, the Internet of Things, voice-giving, facial recognition payments, and human microchips. Humble Bundle is an online store that sells games, ebooks, and software. BitPay :: bitpay.com. BitPay enables nonprofits, such as Mercy for Animals , to accept Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash payments without risk or price fluctuations.

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How One Library Is “Loaning out the Internet” Using Mobile Technology

Tech Soup

But borrowing the Internet? There are many barriers to access, such as a limited number of public computers available on-premise at a library, and an estimated 100 million Americans without access to the Internet at home. “Access to library resources can be greatly expanded with mobile Internet devices. How does that work?

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Today, Bookshare serves over 330,000 American students with a rapidly growing collection of hundreds of thousands of accessible ebooks. a11y accessibility blind blindness Bookshare DAISY ebooks education giving India Lavelle Fund for the Blind philanthropy print disabilities' government and states like Texas.

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