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In my newsletter today, I urged everyone who'd attended TOC to follow up on all their connections - and because I am behaving myself this week, I did the same thing and spoke with Robin Seaman, who acquires digital content for Bookshare, an initiative of Benetech.

Benetech is a nonprofit in Palo Alto that runs Bookshare, which many of you know is a great platform that distributes book content for the 
print disabled. So those with vision impairments, severe learning disabilities, or physical handicaps have alternative ways of absorbing what's in books. It's a terrific program and while they have over 43,000 books, they still don't have enough content for it - which puts the disabled at even MORE of a disadvantage than they already are.

In particular, Benetech needs K-12 materials, but of course they also need everything else. If your publishing house is not already supplying Benetech with digital files, then you can participate by contacting Robin at robins@benetech.org.

I really urge publishers to participate in this because (a) it's a compliance issue (b) technology provides some really cool tools for those with disabilities and getting involved with those efforts is simply a good thing to do.
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Posted by Laura Dawson , February 18, 09, 6:36 PM , comments(0) , permalink , Email this post
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