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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My recommendation to the advocacy community is to continue to pursue a “yes-and” approach, as we have so far with the TVI and the Stakeholders’ Platform. A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video. However, my suggestion is to pursue the U.S.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS. But, the advocacy groups present in Geneva felt that the U.S.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. These ebooks can be instantly turned into the accessible format needed by the student with a disability, such as braille, enlarged print, or our most common format, audio through a computerized synthetic voice.

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Open Data Kit: Mobile Phones for Social Change

NTEN

With Open Data Kit , grassroots activists can capture and export text, photos, video, audio, bar codes, even location. Tags: 10NTC Advocacy Mobile Pizzigati Program. We were honored to meet him at the Nonprofit Technology Conference this year, where he accepted his award. The nomination deadline for the 2011 prize is February 11, 2011.

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Transcription Services Needed for TechSoup

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global offers free webinars to nonprofits and libraries to help them understand how to better utilize technology to accomplish their mission. These training sessions have served thousands of people and discuss topics such as Creating Effective Online Surveys, Using Mobile for Activism & Advocacy, Tech Planning and more.

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Optimizing Your Software: 4 Tips for Growing Nonprofits

DNL OmniMedia

By leveraging the data you collect, you can build relationships that lead to increased or recurring giving, volunteer engagement, and advocacy for your mission. . For videos, live-streams, and interactive media, preview how it looks on the user’s end, testing for sync delays, loading times, and audio levels. Best Practices.

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Cool App Roundup: Library Edition

Tech Soup

access related text, images, audio, and other content from. What all these apps have in common is that they use Worldcat , the enormous global catalog of library collections, to provide detailed information about books, CDs, and movies. They're library outreach and advocacy tools cleverly disguised as a personal.

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