Education

Bookshare Partners With Don Johnston to Provide Free Text Reader for Print Disabled Students

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, […]

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Bookshare and Code Factory Announce Partnership To Introduce Mobile Technology for Print Disabled Readers

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 […]

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Bookshare Receives Grant From U.S. Department of Education

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 […]

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