Benetech® has been awarded the AT&T Technology Innovation Award which recognizes an outstanding assistive technology company that has created lasting impact through the development of assistive technologies applied in communication, education, employment, daily living, and recreation. Benetech operates the Bookshare® service that allows those with print disabilities to legally download books and periodicals to be […]
Read:OutLoud® Bookshare® Edition ‘Text Reader’ Will Provide Technology Access To Thousands of Online Educational Materials Bookshare and Don Johnston have announced a partnership to provide qualified print disabled students with a free text reader to access electronic books from the Bookshare library. This technology access partnership announced at the 2008 CSUN conference in Los Angeles, […]
Bookshare® and Code Factory have announced the formation of a partnership to introduce technology that allows Bookshare members to read digital books on their mobile devices. Code Factory will demo V2.0 of its Mobile Speak for Windows Mobile at the conference of the Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) at the Caribe Royale All-Suite Resort and […]
Far Reaching Award Makes Equal Access to Educational Materials for the Disabled a Reality The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Benetech’s® Bookshare® project $32 million over five years to significantly expand the availability of accessible electronic books and the software for reading those books. Bookshare is the world’s largest accessible library of scanned books […]
