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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Unfortunately, these TPMs create collateral damage in the form of disabling or hindering activities that are generally permitted. This has created the ironic situation where blind people, who because of their disability require access to digital copies, have been effectively locked out of purchasing ebooks for the last decade.

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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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Objecting to Accessibility Weaseling

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We all want the same ebook that people without disabilities buy (sorry, I mean license) to work perfectly well for people who are blind, physically disabled or dyslexic. She wants to see every piece of content that is born digital be born accessible.

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What is Skills Management?

Gyrus

Skills management software helps employees to manage their daily activities, projects and tasks. Creating a library of content, including video, audio, webinars, ebooks, etc., How Does Skills Management Software Help Employees?

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What is Skills Management?

Gyrus

Skills management software helps employees to manage their daily activities, projects and tasks. Creating a library of content, including video, audio, webinars, ebooks, etc., How Does Skills Management Software Help Employees?

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What is Skills Management?

Gyrus

Skills management software helps employees to manage their daily activities, projects and tasks. Creating a library of content, including video, audio, webinars, ebooks, etc., How Does Skills Management Software Help Employees?

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. Under our copyright exception, we simply buy a copy of the needed print book, scan it using optical character recognition, and create an accessible ebook.

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