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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.

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Things We Like (August 2010)

NTEN

For instance, we know a certain number of people will love this slideshow of hi-resolution space images. If you're looking for a new mass e-mail platform, you should check out Groundwire's precisely named " E-mail Service Provider Comparison Report 2010 " Wired recently declared that the Web is dead. Which people? Our people.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. Check out Ushahidi Surveyor.

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Things We Like (October 2010)

NTEN

XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. " Artist Jenny Odell used digital cutouts from Google Maps to create some striking images. "Farmville is so huge! Then there's the next level: HTML 5. Then there's the next level: HTML 5.

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Apps for Disaster Planning

Tech Soup

The Esri ArcGIS app (Windows 8) is useful for organizations that wish to build their own relief-related maps. The app lets you preview different data skews and features from Esri's mapping software. Read about how Pocket First Aid & CPR helped save a life in the Haiti Earthquake of 2010. Government Agency Apps.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. Ushahidi is an NGO project from Kenya that hosts a free online service that collects reports about a stricken area via mobile phone or computer and then maps them so relief efforts can respond.