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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. To bring the power of books to everybody on this planet, we must make books truly accessible. Third, the print book is not universally accessible.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Goal The goal is pretty clear: insuring that every person on the planet with a serious print disability has access to the books and other printed material that they need to get an education, make a living and be included in society. A functional definition of disability that I think is pretty close to the TVI (it is even clearer). •

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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. Ultimately, this community should have equal access to all of the books that are needed for education, employment and social inclusion. Article 2(c).

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The service provides early access to new Twitter tools and a variety of unique features. Write tweets in clear, concise language. Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. 2) Tweet or retweet 2-10 times daily from early morning to late evening.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Freedom Fone leverages audio as a mobile function using IVR, a technology that allows a system to detect voice and keyboard input. IVR allows a user to call, enter or say specific numbers, and listen to or contribute audio content. Many of the audio responses were later rebroadcast on the program. .

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Turn Brand Strategy into an Effective Website

Tech Soup

These goals need to be in a language everyone can understand. identifying content goals and gaps, making sure the content is useful and accessible to everyone, creating a consistent tone and structure, and. The broad definition of design could be "deciding what to create, what to do, and why to do it, both now and for the future."