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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The digital content is presented as text, but the built-in read-aloud capability is disabled because of ambiguity over audio rights. Amazon now ships more ebooks than print books in the United States. The digital content can be accessed with a read-aloud function, but the read-aloud function is unusable for equal access.

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Objecting to Accessibility Weaseling

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.

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The Struggle for Book Access (Blog Post #1)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I’ve been watching with interest the legal controversy over the synthetic speech capability of the new version of the Amazon Kindle, such as the coverage on Boing-Boing entitled Author's Guild claims text-to-speech software is illegal. years ago entitled the Soundproof Book. More on that in another essay. Another key argument is distribution.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As We also continue to add books from volunteers, staff and outsourcers through scanning and proofing, including student requests.

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30 Virtual and Hybrid Event Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. Viewing films at home has been popularized by services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu. You can provide everyone who completes the hunt with something as simple as a digital file. 9) Movie screenings.

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09NTC Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

Amy Sample Ward

general awareness at around 40%, though… people don’t necessarily know they are consuming a podcast, audio embedded in rss etc. if you are recroding with multiple people, you can record them to separate audio files so you can edit more easily. allows you to backup the files by recording to multiple devices.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

And another great thing about WhatsApp that not other messaging apps have is that you can share audios. So you can share post notes, you can share files and since a really long time ago, like now there’s other apps that can do that, but in WhatsApp this has been from our really long time. Audios, files.