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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. First, it is critical to keep engaging in legal advocacy for ratification of two landmark United Nations disability treaties. a11y accessibility Bookshare disabilities ebooks education equality Reading students tech4good UNICEF'

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7 eBooks for activists and donors: Ways to give back during Giving Season and beyond 

Candid

Here are seven titles from Candid’s free collection of eBooks and audiobooks that offer guidance on how to make a difference through volunteering, career choices, and intentional daily actions. To get started, see How can I access Candid’s eBook collection? Looking to get involved with a nonprofit?

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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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Dueling moral high grounds

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Mauer does a great job in capturing the advocacy position of the Reading Rights Coalition. My take: Authors Guild: we want to insist that publishers turn off text-to-speech so our authors can make more money over how much they make from the standard text ebook. This is a case of dueling moral high grounds.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS. But, the advocacy groups present in Geneva felt that the U.S.

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What's Your Nonprofit's Social Media Measurement Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Advocacy: activation of evangelism, word of mouth, and the spread of information through social technologies. And suggests some answers: If Facebook fans become - donors, volunteers, take advocacy actions, or share content. . They define this process as "social media analytics.". Jordan Viator had a guest post by the authors. .

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re not an advocacy organization, but our technical insights are in great demand from advocates. The DMCA 1201 ruling on ebook access through DRM circumvention was clearly aimed at us: should we take up the challenge? We are consulted by policymakers, legislators, rightsholders, companies and activists for our insights.