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Are you following the issues surrounding digital publications, copyright protections, and making books and other media accessible to people with print and vision-related disabilities? Here's a web site we encourage you to visit regularly and frequently...
Filed under: Braille, Visually Impaired Persons Initiative, World Property Organization, DAISY Consortium, accessible formats, cross-border circulation of books, exchanging views, WIPO, audio books, to enhance literacy, improving timely access to copyright protected content, independence and productivity, International Publishers Association, VIP Initiative, multiple jurisdictions, WBU, attracting support, disseminating information, fast-moving stream of technological development, intellectual property system, Digital Accessible Information System Consortium, interests of all stakeholders, World Blind Union
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Happy birthday to the Americans with Disabilities Act! Since its passage back in 1990, ramps have replaced curbs and stairs, braille has appeared inside most elevators, and outside the door too so that people who are blind and visually impaired can know...
Filed under: Braille, employees with disabilities, Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA, service animals, ramps, advocacy, lifts, changed attitudes, public access, civil rights, Department of Justice, telephone relay service, 19th anniversary, Project Civic Access, Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, EEOC
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Do you know of a blind high school or college music student looking for ways to deal with theory and music reading? The National Resource Center for Blind Musicians is taking applications for its one-week Summer Braille Music Institute, which provides...
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If you are a person with a print disability, for example, a visual impairment or a learning disability that makes it hard for you to read or process print, then you need to know about Bookshare.org, the not-for-profit online community that allows people...
Filed under: Braille, online community, print disability, digital books, Jim Fruchterman, magazines, Benetech Initiative, U.S. Department of Education, visual impairment, DAISY, learning disability, New York Times Bestsellers' lists, Bookshare for Education program, books, newspapers, Bookshare
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Just how caffeinated are you? Busy Bee, committed to honey as she is, can certainly understand the need for that beverage break to get one moving in the morning, get an extra jolt of energy during the late afternoon, or just to indulge anytime. We are...
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Although we keep hearing gloomy predictions about a holiday season with few gifts and diminished where-with-all to participate in the annual shopping frenzies, we refuse to buy into these gloom-and-doom prognostications. This bit of cheery pre-season...
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