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. Article 2(c).

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2021

Clubhouse—the invite-only, audio-based social application that’s been drawing in celebrities and expert thought leaders—facilitates widespread collaboration on global topics by allowing users to participate in different conversations on different topics in real-time. Levels the digital divide. Key benefits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As Accordingly, U.S. In this sense, you could say that we are radical braille advocates.

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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? exception model works well here.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

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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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

Unfortunately, many organizations and individuals that usually collect insightful data lack access to such resources. Over the past year, many different initiatives and projects have emerged that focus on tracking people killed during interaction with law enforcement. We're helping to bridge that gap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Click To Play Note: I am now home with fast Internet access and extreme jet lag. I also contributed my used Olympus digital recorder that I purchased when I read about it from Andy Carvin. David Saski from Global Voices contributed these $10 digital cameras. Source: Denith Denith won a digital camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

Thank god for remote access! For the content industries, the tools of enclosure (copyright term extension, digital rights management, etc.) My talk will flesh out this line of thought with examples from science, the arts, politics, and law. I've been Lewis Hyde fan ever since. s about the money.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

From Arkenstone to Bookshare The field of access to books by blind people is where Benetech has twice been the key engine of positive equilibrium change at scale, and we are already working on the third change. Blind people were dependent on sighted people for access to books. These formats now underpin the ebook industry of today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

These licenses and the values that they stand for are vital to building and strengthening a digital commons from which we all benefit. Bio: Gautam John is a lawyer with a focus on copyright laws. He is passionate about education, equality and equity and focuses on ‘access’ as a way to achieve these.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

The goal of the treaty is to make it possible for people who are blind, or have other print disabilities, to get access to the books they need for education, employment and inclusion in society--no matter where they live. law--positions that would be hard for me to imagine passing our Congress.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The access to information drives knowledge. The access to information drives knowledge. The technology itself is not intrinsically good -at Google we are advocates for free expression on the internet and free access for all; the technology istelf is and should be a neutral platform for this. So, the answer is yes as a tool.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. Platform interfaces provide no messaging services or profiles that workers can access. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g., data for a chatbot algorithm) or how it will be used (e.g.,

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