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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Poet supports image descriptions for electronic books created in the international DAISY standard for digital talking books and will be compatible with descriptions for ebooks in the EPUB3 format. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.

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DIAGRAM Center

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The goal of the DIAGRAM R&D Center is to greatly improve access to graphical information for students with print disabilities (for example, helping blind students get access to important graphics inside textbooks). We are also building a content model for making images more accessible.

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Getting Close to a Treaty!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The first issue is that the treaty would not permit direct access by consumers to international authorized entities. Everyone who is not disabled globally can directly access Amazon.com and order books. Being silent on the big issue of circumvention would lead to a world where accessibility could be prohibited by contract.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS. It’s the right long-term solution.

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8 Ways To Make Your Marketing Campaign Eco-Friendly

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

It’s all well and good wanting to present your nonprofit as eco-friendly, but if it isn’t true this will get you in the bad books of many potential supporters. Local businesses are often a more sustainable (and more accessible) option than big co-corporations, whose environmental damage will generally be much higher. Be Transparent.

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Better marketing for nonprofits

ASU Lodestar Center

An in-depth guide related to the target issues they care about, tools or templates, case studies, and ebooks are all great examples of this. To do this, though, it's necessary to relinquish control over every last detail and be willing to compromise where there are viable alternatives. Can you accept donations of time?