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Making Your Nonprofit’s Donation Page Accessible to All

Donorbox

Did you know that less than 2% of the world’s top websites can be considered fully accessible? billion people around the world – are often barred from accessing important information and resources found on these websites. This means that individuals with disabilities – an estimated 1.3

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Charity Navigator to Provide Access to its Global Giving Circle Directory

NonProfit PRO

Charity Navigator announced its partnership with Grapevine and Philanthropy Together to provide access to its Global Giving Circle Directory — a listing of 2,500 independent groups of individuals ("giving circles") collaborating financially to support philanthropic causes and charitable organizations.

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Accerta Health Access Foundation grant opportunity

Charity Village

Does your work try to fill the gaps in access to public health care programs? The Accerta Health Access Foundation (Accerta Foundation) wants to hear from you. They do this by […] The post Accerta Health Access Foundation grant opportunity appeared first on CharityVillage.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

Understanding the challenges BIPOC leadership face in the nonprofit sector One of the primary challenges BIPOC leaders face is limited access to funding.As The best schools drive home the need to access the wisdom and economic opportunities of those who have already carved out a successful career.

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Accessibility on Social Media

M+R

Let’s talk about a few steps that you can take NOW to make your social media content more accessible for everyone. . As video content on social media continues to reign supreme and audio-only content, spurred on by Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse, grows, it’s important for nonprofits to prioritize accessibility when publishing content online.

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Digital Storytelling to Access, Attract and Activate U.S. Donors

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ngonzi on Twitter and LinkedIn and register for her upcoming on March 24, Digital Storytelling to Access, Attract and Activate U.S. But many international nonprofits/NGOs are unaware of the extent of the available funding, and many do not know how to effectively access, attract and activate U.S.-based Please follow Ms. based donors.

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Virtual Events Made the Conventions and the Inauguration Celebrations More Accessible

The MatrixFiles

I hope we figure out how to continue to make our events more accessible to everyone. The post Virtual Events Made the Conventions and the Inauguration Celebrations More Accessible appeared first on The MatriX Files.

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Accessibility on Social Media

Media Cause

When it comes to marketing and brand presence in digital spaces, it is imperative that content and messaging are available and accessible to all audiences—including those who rely on inclusive technology like screen readers, text-to-speech programs, and/or captioning to engage with digital content. Why Accessibility is Important.

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Perfect Together: How-to Access Community Television for Your Nonprofit

Blue Avocado

The post Perfect Together: How-to Access Community Television for Your Nonprofit appeared first on Blue Avocado. Learn how nonprofits can work with public, educational, or governmental TV stations to raise visibility and get the word out about their great work.

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Why Digital Accessibility Matters for Nonprofits

Tech Soup Blog

What is digital accessibility and why is it important to nonprofit organizations and their communities? This post will explore the importance of accessibility in web and other digital communications as it relates to a nonprofit's ability to serve beneficiaries and to communicate with donors.

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The importance of accessibility in DEI work: An interview with Josh Basile

Charity Village

Josh is also a Community Relations Manager with accessiBe, a company that provides digital accessibility tools to help organizations improve their online accessibility. In our […] The post The importance of accessibility in DEI work: An interview with Josh Basile appeared first on CharityVillage.

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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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Build A Strong Nonprofit Board With These Essential Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, And Inclusion (DEAI) Resources

Bloomerang

If you haven’t already, we hope you’ll check out this free library of resources that are designed to help nonprofit professionals establish and champion diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusivity (DEAI) initiatives within their organizations. You can reach our team at dei@bloomerang.co.

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Tips to Make Your Donation Form Accessible to People with Disabilities

DonorPerfect

Accessibility compliance means doing the right thing for your donors, volunteers, and nonprofit website visitors. The post Tips to Make Your Donation Form Accessible to People with Disabilities appeared first on Nonprofit Technology & Fundraising Blogs.

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GivingDNA Partners with Windfall to Make Affluent Consumer Data Accessible

NonProfit PRO

GivingDNA has partnered with Windfall to enhance its affluent consumer dataset. This partnership will equip GivingDNA to better support its users' fundraising efforts by allowing fundraising professionals to strengthen their major giving campaigns and develop cultivation strategies for their wealthiest donors.

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Web Accessibility: 5 Smart Designs to Engage Everyone

Association TV

As your website or content platform grows, so will your audience. Your devotion of energy and resources to create a beautiful, content-rich and relevant hub for your members and potential members will draw eyes, peak interest and encourage engagement.

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Accessibility Goals: Moving Past Compliance

Forum One

It can be uncomfortable to admit, but many web designers, myself included, first learned about digital accessibility as a regulation. How do we budget for required accessibility ? Perhaps the dramatic changes to work and home life brought on by the pandemic sparked a greater understanding of accessibility. We can’t connect.

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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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Making the Web Accessible: Color Choices

Media Cause

In honor of GAAD, we’ll be diving into accessibility across digital marketing starting with website accessibility. . Paying attention to contrast ratios is one of the easiest ways we can adapt our websites to be more accessible for color blind people. I’ve worked for over 15 years in marketing as a project manager.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

Not all leaders think that way, but organizations that value equity of access must consider the plights of those who might be systematically excluded from engagement efforts. Although we did not start with a particular emphasis on equity and access, this theme came up regularly in our conversations with the field.

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An Accessibility & Inclusion Checklist for Virtual Events

Forum One

As in-person events have had to shift to virtual events this year, the silver lining has been that they’ve opened up the opportunity for events to be more accessible to more people, where travel, time, and related expenses aren’t a barrier to participation. Ensure your social media images and text are optimized for accessibility.

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ADA Lawsuits Against Website Owners Are Increasing: Mitigate Risk By Making Your Site Web Accessible

Byte Technology

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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5 Tips for Making Your Website Accessible

Tech Soup Blog

When you construct a public space, an important part of the process is ensuring that it is accessible to anyone who may visit. Whether it be an elevator, ramp, handrail, or other adjustments, it is a requirement that comes with the project.

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Four Nonprofit Web Accessibility Best Practices for 2022

sgEngage

But, did you truly factor in all supporters— especially regarding the accessibility of your site? If you didn’t prioritize accessibility best practices when creating your nonprofit’s website, you could be excluding a significant portion of your nonprofit’s supporters from engaging with it. Let’s get started.

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How to Follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: Resources for Nonprofit Design

Media Cause

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are what everyone must follow to make the web a more inclusive experience. The WCAG “define how to make Web content more accessible to people with disabilities, ranging from visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological.” . Web Accessibility Checker.

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Making the world more accessible with web design

Candid

When architects and construction professionals start designing a building, one of the first things they have to consider is accessibility. Good building accessibility means creating spaces that can be used by anyone. Accessibility by itself refers to the “ability to access.” What is web accessibility?

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ADA Lawsuits Against Website Owners Are Increasing: Mitigate Risk By Making Your Site Web Accessible

Byte Technology

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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Can your brand be more accessible?

Big Duck

The post Can your brand be more accessible? appeared first on Big Duck.

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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Call for proposals launched to increase disability inclusion and accessibility

Charity Village

The Government of Canada has launched a call for proposals under the Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF) Small Projects component to increase disability inclusion and accessibility in communities, workplaces and early learning and childcare facilities. $64

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Wealth Data: What It Is, How to Access It, and How to Prepare for a Professional Screening

DonorPerfect

We wanted to work with Read More » The post Wealth Data: What It Is, How to Access It, and How to Prepare for a Professional Screening appeared first on Nonprofit Technology & Fundraising Blogs. What our team wanted were people who explicitly indicated – unprompted – to their physicians that they were interested in giving.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Plenary Talk at the Eighth General Assembly of the World Blind Union Access to published information is an essential requirement for education, employment and full social inclusion. People with vision impairments and other print disabilities deserve equal access to that treasure of information.

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Access Your Facebook and Instagram Fundraising Data in Classy Reporting

Classy

Facebook alone offers little to no access to donation data for your nonprofit. “ Our team is really excited to give Classy for Facebook’s users the ability to access more data from Facebook and Instagram than they’ve ever had before. Product Manager for Classy for Facebook. How Your Organization Can Start Using This Feature.

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22% of Canadians plan to access charitable services to meet essential needs in the next six months

Charity Village

CanadaHelps has published the findings from a new Ipsos poll that reveals 22 percent of Canadians say they plan to access charitable services to meet essential needs such as food, clothing, or shelter in the next six months.

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Objecting to Accessibility Weaseling

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.

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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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AFP IDEA Survey Reveals an Urgent Need for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access in the Nonprofit Workplace

DonorPerfect

This sector-wide initiative advocates for cultural advancement opportunities and creating paths to inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in the fundraising profession. A collaboration of nine organizations released a recent study focusing on IDEA issues in the fundraising profession, based on survey responses Read More ».

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Accessibility and the Harm of Simple Symbols

Media Cause

In 1968, the International Symbol of Access was created by a Danish design student. The symbol was created as a way to raise awareness around accessibility, and help people living with disabilities better navigate their surroundings. The post Accessibility and the Harm of Simple Symbols appeared first on Media Cause.

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Web Accessibility Lessons Learned from a Total Beginner

Forum One

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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Ending the Cycle of Poverty With Access to Quality Education

Saleforce Nonprofit

Since 2004, CCF has been working with the most impoverished communities to ensure these marginalized children get access to education. The opportunities the students have through access to the latest technologies and an enhanced teacher training program are a world away from their former prospects. Hong Kong, and Australia.

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