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Making the world more accessible with web design

Candid

It pertains to anything from your local grocery store to the Internet. To start fixing this problem, prioritize accessibility with your nonprofit website. Here are some common steps you might take to optimize your site: Require that all non-text content (image, video, audio) also has a text alternative.

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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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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

I was fascinated by the project’s innovative approach to collecting, sharing, and connecting people through locally-produced media. Someday we want to collect audio and video, too, but we’d need a pretty serious operating budget to do that and at least one full-time employee. Geography is fluid, though.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

BB: When I hear that I think, wow, that is a huge, depressing, systemic problem. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland. That is a project that trains low-income women, or no-income women, to tell their own stories through audio documentaries. What can people do to change that?

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And you wil find a lot of local scenery in the flickr stream as people enjoyed the streets of Monterey. We initially planned to provide a small number of live streams of the main sessions, as our local conference host said they could broadcast to about 50 streams. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. Live Video Streams.

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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. Thesaurus.com allows you to search for alternative words that you use too often when writing web and email content. Zoom is an affordable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing. Wistia :: wistia.com.

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74 Free or Low-Cost Tools and Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When writing web and email content, Thesaurus.com allows you to quickly search for alternatives to words that you use too often. Zoom is an affordable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing. If you discover that you are blacklisted, call your web and email host immediately to fix the problem. Trello :: trello.com.

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