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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. The Lavelle Fund exemplifies the tremendous social return that bold philanthropy can create. Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects.

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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

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This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Books with image descriptions will go back into the Bookshare library for students with print disabilities to use in their coursework.

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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

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Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. In addition, we acknowledged the critical support of Bernie Newcomb who helped fund our International Bookshare service.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We have an array of copyright exceptions that cover the activities of archives and libraries, especially fair use and the copyright exception that benefits people with disabilities. Gerry did have one other piece of critical advice: change the name.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

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Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. Accordingly, U.S.

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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

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Benetech's largest social enterprise is the Bookshare online library for people who are blind or otherwise disabled when it comes to reading print. which get Bookshare at no cost when serving students with qualifying disabilities (thanks to funding from the Office of Special Education Programs at the U.S. copyright law.

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The Gift of Reading, a Circle of Life

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This reality changed when Frank found out about Benetech’s Bookshare accessible digital library for people with print disabilities. First we identified the titles we wanted to add—all requested by Bookshare non-student members, including some of the best science books of 2013 as reported by NPR’s Science Friday show.

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