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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
federal law supports braille instruction. We are confident that technology can continue to improve the quality of electronic braille such that a blind consumer can expect both immediate AND high quality braille on demand. Accordingly, U.S. In this sense, you could say that we are radical braille advocates.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 7, 2013
literary and artistic works … in the form of text, notation and/or related illustrations, whether published or otherwise made publicly available in any media;”. This is satisfied by having a law like the Chafee Amendment in the U.S., or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. Technological Protection Measures.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 17, 2014
Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. It affected every step of the evolution of digital media—from the VCR to the digital video recorder to YouTube.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 2, 2012
Betsy Beaumon, Benetech VP and General Manager of Bookshare During the event, our Bookshare staff offered demos of our Bookshare library and our Go Read accessible ebook reader for Android. They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 15, 2009
Accessibility of digital media has been repeatedly and systematically denied because of digital measures to “protect” content. A great (bad) example is Adobe, one of the leading ebook technology vendors, who just introduced their Digital Editions. These approaches usually lock out people with disabilities.
Tech Soup
JUNE 4, 2014
The finalists are an impressive roster of charities from diverse fields doing great work in nonprofit technology. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. Google then invited the public to vote for the top winners. 500,000 Grant Winners. 250,000 Grant Winners.
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