Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. We strongly support this position and believe the digital content revolution holds the best promise for the future of braille. At Benetech, we want to ensure that in this brave new world of digital content, braille is as available as any other ebook format to those who want it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

It is narrower than the Treaty, and is not binding as a treaty would be (some call it “soft law” compared to the “hard law” of a treaty). A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video. law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . • Excludes video. •

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

What's even better, you don't need a law degree to understand it! The post answers the questions: How do you negotiate the potential minefield of legalese surrounding your content? How do I communicate my content???s Currently this is only possible with MP3 audio files through embedding of metadata. shout-out???

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. Rely on national law in each country to qualify the nonprofits that can use these exceptions to help people with disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. And, the U.S. Senate just ratified the Treaty!

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

Under federal law, a website must be compliant with the Section 508 accessibility standards (which, since 2018, include the internationally-recognized Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ) if the website works with/for the federal government. All we need to do is make use of them. It’s a legal issue. Additionally, over 30 U.S

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates. No reason to be afraid: the important part of this definition is that the audio content is syndicated. The bit rate determines the quality of the audio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I Own Creative Content, Therefore I Am, Not??? For the content industries, the tools of enclosure (copyright term extension, digital rights management, etc.) My talk will flesh out this line of thought with examples from science, the arts, politics, and law. From Lewis Hyde: Those of us who resist the ???second

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

According to law firm Seyfarth Shaw, its researchers counted a whopping 5,592 ADA Title III lawsuit filings within the first six months of 2019! This law ensures that information is available to those with disabilities. AA standards, which includes captioning and audio description requirements. So, what do you need to do?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws. Students outside the United States are not covered by this national copyright exception, because every country has its own copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. The point made is: Some content is going to be very well suited to video -- but other. content will be better when it's delivered in other, more appropriate. Follow the links from here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Here's some inspiration if your organization gets a camera from YouTube.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

If life is a chessboard, content is still king. He is talking about on the Web, in terms of content, but I think that also, it works in terms of life. Is it video and audio? We've done audio, we've done video, we've done text, and we've done some photo slide shows. I often say that, "Collaboration is queen."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Over the last year we have been building the foundations for a social publishing model – where we curate communities that are passionate about reading and help us create content. I hope you will consider supporting Creative Commons and licensing content that you own or control such that we all benefit from the growth of the commons.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Do you have a digital marketing process in place to manage your content, social, email, and engagement activities? In this article, I’m going to share a strategic marketing process that, when followed, will help you create content your audience will love. Structure Content With An Introduction, Body, and Conclusion.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

law--positions that would be hard for me to imagine passing our Congress. One of the most powerful industries on the planet, which already has loads of treaties and laws protecting its interests, needs to find balance against some of the most economically and information disadvantaged people on the planet? Conflicts with American Law.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

site we had to be compliant with Chinese law. Susan Pointer: Majority of our advertising is contextual – the search you made and the content on the page. Annabelle Sreberny: So much of the content from Iran was user generated content sent to the media – what’s happened to that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

The Icommons.org has some excellent blog posts and resources about open content that may be of interest to nonprofits. Tobias Schonwetter, discusses the analogy between copyright law and culture in many regions of the world and an interview with Anna Badimo, chairperson of LinuxChix Africa. Example Wikieducator ).

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. Like Mechanical Turk, Playment receives the data content of a task simply by acting as an intermediary. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g., to automate fast-food restaurants).

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