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- Begin With Books
- Big Ideas@Berkeley 2014/15 Prize
- Big Ideas@Berkeley 2015/16 Prize
- Book Boost: Access for All Challenge
- EduApp4Syria Prize
- Enabling Writers Prize
- Grant Competition 2011
- Grant Competition 2014
- Leaders for Literacy
- No Lost Generation Summit Tech Prize
- Ready2Read Challenge
- Sign On For Literacy Prize
- Technology to Support Education in Crises & Conflict Prize
- Tracking & Tracing Books Prize
- UnrestrICTed Challenge
… results in accessible books.
eKitabu wins Phase One of Sign On for Literacy, a global competition for technology-based innovations to increase literacy among deaf children
All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD) today announced the winners of the first phase of Sign On For Literacy.Bookshare
Benetech is an online library of accessible content for people with print disabilities.SmartBooks (សៀវភៅឆ្លាត) – Google
A smartphone app offering more than 70 leveled stories and digital quizzes in the Khmer language to help improve early grade literacy skills of children in Cambodia.Bloom Library
A global collection of books created with Bloom software. Bloom makes it easy to create simple books and translate them into multiple languages.Book Dash
An online library of African storybooks that anyone can translate and distribute.BookBox
A free mobile-friendly library offered in more than 45 languages.$500,000 Grand Challenge Wants Tech Innovations in Deaf Literacy
Of an estimated 32 million children around the world who are deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind, four in five lack access to education, and just 2 percent get instruction in sign language.Videobooks
An online library of books in Argentine, Uruguayan and Paraguayan sign languages.ACR GCD – Children With Disabilities Info Sheet
A brief overview of ACR GCD's projects, research and partnerships focused on improving literacy outcomes for children with disabilities in developing countries.Supporting Technology-Based Innovations to Improve Early Grade Reading Outcomes for Students Who Have Low Vision or are Blind
A summary report on the impact and potential for scale of three ACR GCD-funded projects focused on improving reading outcomes of students who have low vision or are blind.Books for Every Child: Creating Engaging Content in Underserved Languages
Edtech company Asafeer and the Global Digital Library share how to use, adapt and translate 100 STEM-focused eBooks in Arabic and English funded by ACR GCD to other languages or contexts.Cult/Tech Podcast with Benetech and All Children Reading
All Children Reading and Benetech talk about helping children with disabilities appreciate books and reading with a book distribution program that places books in Braille, audio, and mixed formats.Benetech Evaluation Report
An evaluation report on the results of the ACR GCD-funded "Bookshare India" project, implemented by Beneficent Technologies (Benetech) in India.Asafeer’s children’s books in Arabic and English launched on Global Digital Library
The 100 Adventures in Science and Life ebooks, developed by Asafeer and funded ACR GCD's 2017 No Lost Generation Tech Prize, are now available in Arabic and English on the Global Digital Library.Guidelines For Accessible eBooks: EPUB Accessibility
Learn from Benetech about key accessibility guidelines and tools for creating born-accessible ebooks and content for children with disabilities.Millicent Simmonds encourages participation in Sign On For Literacy competition
Wonderstruck actress Millicent Simmonds announces the launch of ACR GCD's Sign On For Literacy prize competition seeking innovative solutions that provide Deaf children a foundation of sign language.- Blog // October 12, 2016
Clear vision remains for nine-year-old student who is blind
Alexa is one example of how All Children Reading is helping children who are blind/low vision learn to read with innovative technologies. Benetech: Creating Accessible Images
Learn from Benetech about key guidelines for creating accessible images through alt-text and image descriptions to support children with disabilities.Benetech’s president has a call to action for inclusion
At the Bay Area Makeathon last year, Google.org convened technologists and designers at TechShop in San Francisco, for 72 hours of writing code and designing prototypes for people with disabilities.