With the help of a $100,000 supplemental grant from the United States Department of Education Office of Special Education (OSEP), Bookshare will begin to make open content textbooks accessible to readers with print disabilities, as well as to those without such disabilities who might nonetheless benefit from the technology. In what the non-profit organization hopes will pave the way for a broad spectrum of open content texts in all subjects, it has chosen to launch its effort with 16 math and science textbooks approved for California high school students.
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Bookshare is an initiative of Benetech, a nonprofit that creates sustainable technology to solve pressing social needs. "Traditional copyrighted books, including those contributed to Bookshare by publishers, are protected with digital rights management technology and available only to those with a documented print disability. But Bookshare's open content books will become part of the freely distributable books in [its] collection and can be used by anybody without proof of disability," said Benetech CEO Jim Fruchterman. These books, he added, "will not only help disabled students throughout the U.S. and globally, but provide parents, teachers and assistive technology developers with free access to real talking textbooks."
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