Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. Our commitment to braille literacy means that the entire Bookshare collection of over 198,000 titles (and counting) is available not only for use in text, audio or the combination, played with a wide variety of assistive technology tools, but also formatted for use on electronic braille displays.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law. I actually think they’re getting less by stopping people from buying ebooks who are unlikely to buy audio books at higher prices. The Chafee Amendment The U.S. national experience.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

So as essential activities like tax-paying and banking are moved online, many are left stranded. Under federal law, a website must be compliant with the Section 508 accessibility standards (which, since 2018, include the internationally-recognized Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ) if the website works with/for the federal government.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

According to law firm Seyfarth Shaw, its researchers counted a whopping 5,592 ADA Title III lawsuit filings within the first six months of 2019! And these thousands of lawsuits aren’t just being brought against big brands with an active ecommerce base. This law ensures that information is available to those with disabilities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2007

The law is the same for everyone; it should be applied in the same way to all. From the site: "The WITNESS Hub and Google Earth are working with the Every Human Has Rights campaign to build a global digital databank of human rights stories, in text, audio and video." human rights The Elders Every Human Has Rights activism

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws. Students outside the United States are not covered by this national copyright exception, because every country has its own copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

As part of the activities, people are invited to kick the tires of the new version of Social Source Commons. " Nancy White's slides from TALO and some audio from Nothern s about the new rules for online communities. Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos. FLOSS Usability Sprint is taking place this weekend.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Before Benetech was founded, blind people were read to either in person by a family member, volunteer, or paid reader, or via audio cassette tape. Instead of providing a scanning tool for independent reading, Bookshare would aggregate the scanning activity of the entire community. Fast forward to today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It was at this point that we had a moment of realization – that reading is an extremely social activity and that there are communities and organizations who were more than ready to help us achieve our goals. Bio: Gautam John is a lawyer with a focus on copyright laws. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Do you have a digital marketing process in place to manage your content, social, email, and engagement activities? Best of all, this 7 step marketing process is easy to learn and will free your time to focus on more value-adding activities. I know at times it may feel like a lot to juggle. Work smarter, not harder.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

site we had to be compliant with Chinese law. I think there are people who say “yes, there are people who have said I’ve changed my avatar green…&# One of the things with Dean’s campaign initially was that they had huge amounts of online activism but had problems turning that into real life work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Tobias Schonwetter, discusses the analogy between copyright law and culture in many regions of the world and an interview with Anna Badimo, chairperson of LinuxChix Africa. FOSS, Audio and Video for Activism and Advocacy. Here is an excellent screencast, an introduction to Linux (Ubuntu). New (to me) Nonprofit Blogs.

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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. Work as a productive activity becomes secondary, but it does not disappear. More importantly, though, microwork sites are ‘like clandestine installations on unmapped territory; too little is known about them’.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And the podcasts became an extension of that, because I realized I wanted to do interviews, and it was a great way to do the interviews and have them in an audio form for people who are interested in audio, and then also I get them transcribed and put them on the blog. First of all, who identifies with the word "activism"?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

So, our view is that this Green Jobs Corps is the first step towards making Oakland a global green city that has our young people actively engaged in greening the economy, rebooting and retrofitting Oakland. Then I went to Yale for law school, fancy Ivy League, East Coast, intellectual, all this stuff. So, it's pretty exciting.

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