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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our commitment to braille literacy means that the entire Bookshare collection of over 198,000 titles (and counting) is available not only for use in text, audio or the combination, played with a wide variety of assistive technology tools, but also formatted for use on electronic braille displays. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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I grew up in Florida in a pretty narrow-minded, and very closed South Asian community. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland. That is a project that trains low-income women, or no-income women, to tell their own stories through audio documentaries. That can happen all over the country.