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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. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach.

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What Can Windows Pro Full Operating System Offer Your Nonprofit?

Tech Soup

Windows Pro full operating system is Microsoft's full operating system installation for organizations and a brand-new donation offer. This offer grants access to Windows Pro licenses at just $16 each and is only available through TechSoup.

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What to Expect from the Summer ’21 Release

Cloud 4 Good

There are several new, exciting tools for Salesforce Administrators in the Salesforce Summer ’21 Release , such as Learning Paths and the Active Licenses tab. Easily Track Active Licenses. From the Lightning Usage App, select “Active Licenses” on the left and view a breakdown of the licenses used within the last 30 days.

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Top Ten Data Challenges (And Solutions) for Associations

Association Analytics

9: Your Data Is Not Readily Available Challenge : You need to put a report together by the end of the week, but the person who has access to the data you need is out on vacation for the week. A data dictionary will help everyone across your association become familiar with the terms used when accessing, updating, and reporting data.

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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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Our WIPO Statement on the Treaty for Access for People with Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, all residents with the qualifying disabilities in Australia, Denmark and Qatar, to pick just three examples, now have free access to Bookshare thanks to our joint efforts with local and national disability groups in these countries. We would like to see a global norm comparable to the system that has worked so well in the U.S.

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7 Things Nonprofits Should Know About Virtual Desktops

TechImpact

With a virtual desktop, everything that you see on your computer screen (the operating system) is actually located on a server rather than on your computer’s local drive. Virtual OS systems are shared. Rather than having one OS to a system, an OS can be distributed to multiple computers. Access from outside the office.

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