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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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10 Best Video Production Tools for Virtual Events

AccelEvents

Adding video production tools to your belt can help you overcome a number of challenges that video production is faced with. To help you make the decision that is best for you, we’ve compiled this list of the 10 best video production tools for virtual events. . These Video Production Tools are listed in alphabetical order.

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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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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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Architecting Composable Digital Experiences

Forum One

Mission-driven organizations face a number of unique challenges when it comes to building digital products. From experience, if architected and deployed right, you can easily expect Google Lighthouse scores in the 98+ range, even for highly complex digital products. This means a more performant and less resource-intensive experience.

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5 Quick and Easy Ways to Make Your Website More Accessible

Allegiance Group

What is website accessibility and why is it important? If a website is accessible, it means that it was built and designed for all people to use it. Accessibility is a big part of your website’s user experience (UX). Situational Limitations Some users have accessibility limitations.

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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This includes accessible educational materials, such as e-books that can be used with computers, or mobile devices that display enlarged text or read the book aloud while also highlighting text. Bookshare has grown into the largest online digital library of accessible books and periodicals in the U.S., There are some 7.5

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