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Making the world more accessible with web design

Candid

It’s the idea that anyone in the world, regardless of location, language, disability, or platform, can participate or engage with something. It pertains to anything from your local grocery store to the Internet. Accessibility by itself refers to the “ability to access.” Read on to learn more. . What is web accessibility?

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Freedom Fone leverages audio as a mobile function using IVR, a technology that allows a system to detect voice and keyboard input. IVR allows a user to call, enter or say specific numbers, and listen to or contribute audio content. Many of the audio responses were later rebroadcast on the program. . You can nest menus.

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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. Nothing I heard from the Copyright Office made me think they were pro-Treaty.

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App Recommendations from TechSoup Staff: Part Two

Tech Soup

Muni Alerts – our local bus and train app for routes, schedules, and arrival predictions down to the second. Uber – is an alternative taxi or ridesharing service. Duolingo – is a free language-learning app and website that is also a crowdsourced web translation service. I’m all about transportation.

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100+ Fundraising Event Ideas to Try in 2021 and Beyond

Qgiv

While virtual fundraising events were simply a quick alternative, they actually proved to be a convenient and effective way to engage with donors. And, instead of limiting your events just to those in the local area or to those who have the means to travel, you can actually open them to anyone on the internet!

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7 Reasons Nonprofits Need iPads

Forum One

Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content. The fact that nine manufacturers are currently developing iPad alternatives is evidence that the industry is taking this tablet thing pretty seriously. Smartphone sales are soaring , with 54.5

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94 Free or Low-Cost Tools and Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Wistia is a video and audio creation tool that allows you to add email pop-ups to your videos and podcasts. Rote is a web-based grant writing tool that saves your past language in one place – organized, filterable, and at your fingertips when you need it to write a first draft of a new proposal. Wistia :: wistia.com. Zoom :: zoom.us.

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