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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

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DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials. Information about devices that support image descriptions can be found at the DIAGRAM website. The DIAGRAM Center was launched in May 2010 by Benetech with support from the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).

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The FCC and Accessibility

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Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. It’s certainly within our technical capabilities to provide a basic level of access to the information and communication capabilities of the Internet and web through broadband.

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Print Access for All: Anna Reid in Chennai

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Reflections on an internship with Bookshare.org in Chennai, India Made possible through support from the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement Anna Reid, religion major, class of 2010 Anna Reid with employees of Worth Trust, a South Indian organization that provides vocational training and employment for people with disabilities.

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Understanding Income Inequality

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Have the answers to these questions changed during recent years (2007, 2010, 2013)? And, they often have to decline to help because of limited staff resources. What “micro” factors raise the poverty risk for persons and households – age? family structure? employment attachment and educational level of adult household members?

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Promise and Peril: Martus for Human Rights in Burma

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Martus enables human rights workers to securely document and organize information about violations in a way that protects those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories. Your support gives us the resources and capacity we need to continue and grow these efforts.

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