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Making the world more accessible with web design

Candid

For instance, if your website focuses heavily on images or graphics, simply not including captions or alternative text can drive away supporters or donors with a visual impairment or slow internet speed. Thus, full accessibility can: Foster a more inclusive culture for your organization. What are the ADA and WCAG?

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Five Tips for Nonprofits to Avoid Virtual Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Experts point to several reasons why we are feeling a loss of vitality, productivity, and wellbeing in our virtual workplaces: Online-mediated interaction and communications deprive us a full sensory experience as we are only limited to audio and visual experiences (when using video conferences) or just text. see the photo at the top).

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Is Your NY Nonprofit Ready for the Nonprofit Revitalization Act?

BoardAssist

Conflict of interest policy – My New York nonprofit has a Conflict of Interest policy which: Includes both a definition of conflict of interest and procedures for disclosing, addressing, and documenting conflicts and their resolution. Board members may participate in a meeting by video or audio conference. Nixon Peabody.

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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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Why Your Organization Needs Telecommuting – When the Commuter Train Shuts Down

Tech Soup

The resultant traffic and chaos from commuters attempting alternate methods of transportation including ferries, buses, and carpooling likely resulted in something of a local holiday – as highways turned into parking lots. The future of work requires this shift in managerial mindset. Remote Work. But maybe you're not convinced.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08 Furthermore, all of the vendors should commit to a policy that if the front-end or API is unable to download or connect to their data- typically because of performance problems- then the vendor should provide the data or access for free. 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The first is the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)—a vital framework for creating legislation and policies embracing the rights and dignity of all people with disabilities. All e-books should have an audio capacity, using whatever smartphone or music playing device a person has in their pocket.

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