Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

Web accessibility, in particular, became an intriguing topic for me as it is so integral to my field of interest (which is website development, by the way), yet before my internship, I had never given it much thought. I got the chance to talk to a lot of amazing people here at Forum One about web accessibility, and they taught me a lot!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 3, 2016

The United States Senate has a terrific opportunity to expand opportunity The United States Senate has just been presented with the ratification package for the Marrakesh Treaty. The creation of Bookshare was made possible because of an enlightened copyright law exception. law with the Treaty language.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

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. law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . • law (this is a wildcard issue right now).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

And in most civil cases (typically those covering issues of housing, family, and consumer law), people represent themselves because there is generally no right to legal counsel in civil matters. However, access to justice for people with low and moderate incomes has been a long-standing issue facing vulnerable communities. Al Schwartz.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

in the state. The act grants individuals living in California certain disclosure, access, and deletion rights with respect to their personal information collected by a business. It pays for your association to be aware of what’s needed to stay in compliance with the privacy law. including households?and

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

While we’re extremely proud of our achievements in the field of accessibility and disability rights, we know that we’ve just scratched the surface of what we could possibly do to bolster parity of access to information by people with disabilities. We’re making securing new funding for Bookshare’s international expansion a top priority!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. Wouldn’t it make more sense to make it easier for people with disabilities to get access to the books they need for education and employment? We don’t have to ask for permission from the publisher or author.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. Another factor to consider is the limited access and high expense of processing credit cards and PayPal in Kenya compared to the United States.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. copyright law. Universal City Studios, Inc.,

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Stevenson is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and started EJI to dedicate his life to fighting the unequal treatment of marginalized communities. In the United States, most children are taught that Christopher Columbus discovered this continent, that we created freedom and democracy.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

In the early 2000s, Google gained broader traction and then took off to become what it is today as it became accessible to people beyond government and businesses. They had at the tips of their fingers vast amounts of information and knowledge, so they no longer had to travel to libraries to obtain research and have access to information.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This revised project included the conversion of books into accessible formats and working with multiple schools. Moreover, Bookshare basically breaks even in the United States thanks to contracts to provide the services, from the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. My core point: Don’t put up bureaucratic barriers to access. The biggest challenge for access is that it’s expensive.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 14, 2017

Since 1922, they have put significant international pressure on governments to enforce and enact laws that defend women’s rights. Their work is spread across five continents, providing millions of low-income people access to loans and other financial services. AIDS United. Take Action | Twitter | Facebook.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

With 80-90 employees working remotely across the United States, the National Development Council was looking for a better solution to staying connected. Women’s Law Project. As a small foundation, with 9 full-time members, the Women’s Law Project needed a better and more cost-effective solution. Path Point.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Candid

MARCH 16, 2022

Council members may also access our legal compendium chapter, International Grantmaking: A Guide For Funders Making Grants Outside The United States , for free assistance on international grantmaking procedures. Funding through an intermediary or pooled fund hosted by US organization, or.

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Qgiv

JULY 3, 2023

That’s why every July in the United States, it’s important to observe Disability Pride Month! Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. It’s important to engage with others and continue the conversation about how we can continue to make the world more accessible for people with disabilities.

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Neon CRM

MAY 23, 2023

For hundreds of years, AAPI contributions to art, science, medicine, culture, architecture, and other areas have shaped the United States, and they continue to do so today. Despite all of those contributions, racism and violence toward Asian American Pacific Islander communities rose during the COVID-19 pandemic and remains an issue.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. As we have explained in other Beneblog and Bookshare blog posts, these are exciting times for everyone who has been working to meet the imperative to provide people with print disabilities equal access to published information. Accordingly, U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

And that is setting back the cause of people with disabilities who need that kind of access. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible. A recent example of this was web site accessibility. pointed out that the authors have long supported disability access. Roy Blount Jr.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

copyright law. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law. The deal was: help people with disabilities that can't access books and don't hurt the economic interests of the publishers (and authors). At Benetech, our commitment is to uphold that social deal.

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Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2024

Explore the different kinds of tax-exempt organizations in the United States with this comprehensive guide , covering the exact types of nonprofits and their classifications. If you have access to startup funds, determine how much of them will be committed to the initial steps of setting up your nonprofit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2016

With access to the information collected by a person’s smartphone, it’s probably straightforward to figure out everything important about that person. What laws they violate. The government does not, and should not, have automatic access to every secret. We have seen this problem here in the United States and around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. One of their main challenges is that they do not have adequate access to educational materials that are necessary to learn and succeed in school.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2009

We've been supportive of an effort by the World Blind Union to get an international treaty in place that sets up a global system much like the one we have today in the United States. law that made it legal for us to scan just a bout any book without needing to get permissions first.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

Why shouldn’t visually impaired and disabled students in the United States have easy access to the study of the languages? As an independent territory of the United States, the schools of Puerto Rico are subject to the same federal laws and IDEA initiatives as every school in the 50 states.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Although reports of the massacre appeared in the United States, Salvadoran army and government leaders denied them and, all too soon, El Mozote was forgotten. Having pioneered the idea of making strong security accessible to human rights practitioners, we helped dramatically change the way in which human rights work is done.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

But for those with permanent or temporary disabilities, these companies are accused of violating Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by lacking the proper digital accommodations to enable access to their coveted online offerings. Everybody deserves to have that full and equal access to the world around them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Humane Society of the United States :: Download. Access videos, blog updates, twitter posts and more. The App allows users to listen live to public radio stations coast to coast and create a playlist of stories to hear in any order or to save for later. Users can also download stories for offline reading. App Name: Humane TV.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law. We believe that print disabled people should be able to buy accessible books at the same time and at the same price as nondisabled people. The Chafee Amendment The U.S. national experience.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

million registered nonprofits in the United States, making these charitable organizations a staple of modern society. State and federal regulations for starting a nonprofit. Look into relevant laws regarding starting a nonprofit in your community. Look into pro-bono services offered by local bar associations or law firms.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

We also started to notice just how many elders and families are affected by food insecurity: more than 34 million people in the United States alone. Lesson 2: Understand the laws. 2 This important, nationwide law empowers nonprofits and other like-minded folks to be able to share donated food amongst people in need.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

Arriving on Guam felt like coming back to the United States, although it's more like Hawaii than the mainland! is relocating our units from Okinawa to Guam and this could grow the island's population anywhere from 20% to 40%. Although some of the island states are independent nations, they all implement U.S.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For example, if you’re a law firm partnering with an organization that provides support to new immigrants, you might donate pro bono legal services to those who need it or spending time providing education to immigrants looking to take their citizenship tests. You can also support nonprofits by volunteering or providing services they need.

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