Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

We're really proud of the rapid growth of our Bookshare online library for people with print disabilities. We're up to more than 125,000 users, with over 95,000 books available, and our users are now accessing content at a rate of more than million downloads per year! What is the school signup process for Bookshare?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

The Goal The goal is pretty clear: insuring that every person on the planet with a serious print disability has access to the books and other printed material that they need to get an education, make a living and be included in society. So, your lawyer’s opinion may vary, and is likely to be better informed on the legal aspects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

The goal of the DIAGRAM R&D Center is to greatly improve access to graphical information for students with print disabilities (for example, helping blind students get access to important graphics inside textbooks). We are also building a content model for making images more accessible.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Not all leaders think that way, but organizations that value equity of access must consider the plights of those who might be systematically excluded from engagement efforts. Although we did not start with a particular emphasis on equity and access, this theme came up regularly in our conversations with the field.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For them, Bookshare —Benetech’s Global Literacy initiative and the world’s largest accessible digital library for people with print disabilities—opens up a lifeline to reading. We’re honored to be included in this elite group of nonprofits known for their innovative approaches to tackling social problems.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

A related, but slightly different and less recognized issue, is the fact that people with disabilities such as blindness often have limited access to printed materials, even if they are well-educated. One of the programs developed by Benetech is a digital library called Bookshare.org. Bookshare managers. www.bookshare.org.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The Kansas City Public Library. They have developed a way for anyone with a Kansas City public library card to use expensive professional applications like those from Adobe and Microsoft without owning them. They are building a free software lending library. How The Lending Library Will Work.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

As smartphones and tablets grow in popularity, mobile optimization is something libraries and nonprofits should pay close attention to in the coming year. Why should mobile be part of libraries and nonprofits' game plan? Multiple studies have found that more people are accessing the web from a mobile device. Why Mobile?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Zach has Cerebral Palsy , which causes movement and coordination problems, and which keeps him from speaking and walking. They get frustrated and don’t want to read,” she says, “but access to digital books and reading technologies changed all that for Zach.” Zach Bryant loves reading non-fiction. This wasn’t always the case, though.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2022

If you’ve logged onto YouTube today, you may have noticed that something was off with the homepage: the sidebar that lets you access things like your subscriptions feed , trending videos , and “Library” that keeps your Watch Later list and video history, is missing (though you can access some of the pages by clicking on the links we’ve included).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It also says the app has reporting tools for problem conversations and 24/7 human monitoring in case of safety issues.). “The mission is to democratize access to mentorship and to democratize access to knowledge. “[But] if they follow you on Wisdom whenever you go live they’ll get an alert. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2011

The world has big problems. Our work to date repeatedly demonstrates bridging this market failure gap: Our Literacy team has reinvented the traditional library for the blind, reducing the cost of producing an accessible book by a factor of 100 and ending the book famine that people who are blind or print disabled have faced for years.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The page contains a whole library of questions that users can get answers to, including how to track packages, cancel orders, or start a return. To access Amazon’s Customer Service Help Page, go to the website landing page and click on " Customer Service " in the top left of the screen. .

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

may prove to be a key resource for solving some of our most pressing real-world problems," according to game designer Jane McGonigal in The Wall Street Journal. Gamers are already helping tackle real-world problems, just by playing games. New York Public Library: Find the Future. Why are games important? When we play, we.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

Cooking a meal shouldn’t be fatal: clean-burning stoves, as well as clean fuels and energy all help combat this problem. Since I’m a software guy, I asked about what software could do to help with these two real-world problems. If Andrew and his peers can’t cure their blindness, could we help them with access to information?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Billions have been spent addressing the problem over the past decade. I have good news: For $5 million a year, we can build a global library that provides tens of millions of people around the world who are blind, low vision, or dyslexic free access to books that will work for them. This one does. We have the technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea. To explain our approach, let’s look at Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with print disabilities. Converting and delivering these accessible books was expensive and time consuming.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The world’s problems are many, and we keep seeing opportunities for technologists to address those problems effectively. We believe that having more minds working simultaneously on a problem increases the odds of solving that problem well and quickly. We passed this milestone in less than 3.5

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2021

But the academics say they are being silenced for exposing problems on Facebook’s platform. NYU’s research offered new insights into Facebook’s problems. Data collected by Ad Observer is then made publicly available to researchers and journalists who use the information to reveal trends and problems on Facebook’s platform.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Accessible Social :: accessible-social.com. Accessible Social is a free resource hub for digital marketers to discover how to make social media content accessible. wpbeginner :: wpbeginner.com.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Amazon’s crucial web services business AWS is experiencing problems today, with issues affecting services like Slack, Imgur, and the Epic Games store for some users. Asana said the problems constituted a “ major outage ,” with “many of our users unable to access Asana.” Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. Burlington Public Library was one of our test installation sites. It is a medium-sized library about 60 miles north of Seattle in northern Washington State. Windows MultiPoint Server. Adobe Flash Player.

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Candid

OCTOBER 2, 2024

A walk through a public park, a visit to the local library, and the convenience of tap water and affordable public transportation. Federal and state governments spend trillions of dollars annually, yet the quality of our public services is wholly inadequate—in terms of both access and affordability.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Not to say that voice based apps will improve accessibility for a person with a disability. rst glance, implementing a speech synthesizer/recognizer library may seem like a relatively simple task of determining the phonetic sounds of the input and outputting a corresponding sequence of audible signals. Popular speech libraries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. If you discover that you are blacklisted, call your web and email host immediately to fix the problem. A LinkedIn Group for nonprofit professionals where they can share and access resources about social media.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

While PlayStation says it has since resolved the issue, it looks like there are still some players having problems accessing the game. The PlayStation teams have told us the early access issue is now resolved, and the game can now be downloaded! Problems arose when the game was set to go live Sunday morning at 7AM ET.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Solving a major problem involving information is beyond the capability of any one enterprise – no matter how terrific. Furthermore, instead of having to scan many books at $100 to $5000 apiece, our library now gets five to 10 thousand books each month for free, in a standard format that costs us pennies per book added to our collection.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

But the effort grew from there, spanning more than two months as iFixit added dozens more staff members to the project; began talking to more biomedical technicians, doctors, and nurses about their day-to-day needs; and started collecting and cataloging information from libraries and other sources.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library. Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Dulingo provides access to free online language learning tools. If you discover that you are blacklisted, call your web and email host immediately to fix the problem. See also the Noun Project.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Basics of Meta Ad Library Meta has 3 versions of its Ad Library, each with its own caveats. Ad Library is a user interface that lets you search ALL the ads currently running and archived (up to 5 years) in the past across Meta. The Easy Steps Pull up ad library view. The caveat is that the data can’t be exported.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

These features include a Prompt Builder feature, which allows users to create their own directives for the AI assistant, and a Prompt Library, which includes suggested prompts from Glean, as well ones that a company has shared in its own prompt library. In October 2024 Blackbird.AI

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Many organizations, however, overlook ensuring that their web presence is accessible to individuals who may have visual or auditory impairments. Accessibility in Developing Countries. According to Malhan, the biggest challenge in the developing world for the disabled is a lack access to resources and information.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2021

Apple’s Podcasts subscriptions will allow people to subscribe to participating podcasts to get extra perks like ad-free listening or early access to episodes. In its email sent Friday, Apple said it has fixed the “disruptions” that presented problems. We will introduce additional enhancements to Library in the coming weeks.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Bookshare Hits 100,000 Members Boy reading at a computer with teacher in the background.Since the beginning of 2009, we’ve tripled the number of people with disabilities Bookshare is serving with our accessible library of ebooks. The amazing thing about serving 100,000 students right now is that our commitment to the U.S.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

This means youth who had access to nutritious meals during the school year may be undernourished or hungry over the summer. And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer.

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