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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Although legal and regulatory requirements stipulate that schools must provide accessible ‘equivalent’ resources for students with disabilities, in practice the majority of these students do not have equal access to textbooks and other instructional materials that make up the primary resources of the general curriculum.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s allowed in many formats to present the text not in logical reading order, but completely out of order with instructions to the device on how to make the content “look” on the page. Textbooks in IDEA, the United States K-12 special education law The issue of TPMs is the biggest future-proofing question in the Treaty.

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Spanish scale-ups club together to shift the tech policy agenda

TechCrunch

On the regulation point, Spain’s first startup law — which was adopted in draft and presented to parliament in December — has been well received by the local tech community. EsTech seems likely to press that line of argument — although at the time of writing it was still preparing its policy plan.

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India says not to preorder Starlink until it obtains a license

The Verge

India has instructed the public not to preorder Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite-based internet service, according to a report from Reuters. Starlink faced scrutiny from the Indian government in April, when the DoT began examining whether Starlink’s beta rollout broke any of India’s telecom laws (via Economic Times ).

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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The legal framework for Bookshare is the Section 121 copyright exception in federal copyright law: all Bookshare users must have a disability that qualifies under that section. Does Bookshare work with the Kurzweil products for students with learning disabilities?

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Dear Sophie: Last-minute H-1Bs, O-1A & EB-1A extraordinary credential prep

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives.

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The next privacy crisis

The Verge

You can seamlessly pull up translations for any street sign or instructions for any task. Some locations are replete with helpful holographic instructions, while in other places, neglect and poor connectivity make them few and far between. Some groups are trying to get the jump on broader AR policy issues.

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