Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Creating a library of content, including video, audio, webinars, ebooks, etc.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

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. Of course, one of our advocacy positions is why would the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

This is why the making of accessible books is a classic example of market failure: if publishers could make a lot of money selling braille, large print, audio, and fully accessible textbooks, we wouldn’t need a copyright exception. Don’t create a global Swiss registry of nonprofit organizations qualified to use exceptions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. However, if you want to hold a global scavenger hunt, open to anyone in the world, you have that option will virtual scavenger hunts. 9) Movie screenings.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

PDF Viewer to look at PDF documents and also eBooks. It lets you make audio and video calls, run online meetings, check my team’s presence status, and send instant messages. Images: TechSoup Global. This app has stuff to distract my kids, without disabling some of the things I want to have still work. I also use the Lync.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Chris Wagner, Senior Director of Global Marketing. Overdrive media console – is an audio and ebook downloader and reader app which is especially useful for ebooks you get from the library. I’m all about transportation. Uber – is an alternative taxi or ridesharing service.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

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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Accessibility eBook People Copyright 135

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Highlights of this Update: Human Rights Global Literacy Benetech Labs and Board of Directors Human Rights In the age of hyper-surveillance, it is clear that at-risk human rights defenders are no longer the only ones who need the know-how to protect sensitive information. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website.

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Literacy eBook United Kingdom India 158

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

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. Richer countries like the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. That’s why braille is an important focus for us in Benetech’s Global Literacy Program — we know that we must keep braille relevant and make it more available. In this sense, you could say that we are radical braille advocates.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Before Benetech was founded, blind people were read to either in person by a family member, volunteer, or paid reader, or via audio cassette tape. The first was the ebook. Fundamentally, the Arkenstone Reader allowed blind people to create their own personal ebook as a text file that could be read in something like Microsoft Word.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

This is helpful if an emergency occurs that prevents face-to-face meetings (like bad weather or a global pandemic) or if you simply want to increase participation with digital attendees. Download eBook. Let’s dive in! Need virtual fundraising ideas? Download PDF. Types of Fundraising Event Software. Bidding Software.

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