article thumbnail

Accessibility on Social Media

M+R

Our society is marked by inequities of race, gender, ability, and more—and the content we create can either challenge these inequities or reinforce them. As well-intentioned as content may be, when done wrong it can disempower, objectify, or misrepresent those we intend to serve. Audio Descriptions . The good news? Captions .

article thumbnail

Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, I did a workshop at a conference for professionals who do audio description, a service that makes visual images of theatre, television, movies, and other art forms accessible to people are who blind or have low vision. Training is better when you content and instruction is as inclusive as possible.

Detroit 77
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Video

Tech Soup

An "effective" video can be a number of things depending on what an organization's intent was in creating video content. Nonprofits and libraries need not worry excessively about technical quality, as chat participants were in agreement that content mattered most.

article thumbnail

Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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.

article thumbnail

What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

So, this means books, periodicals and other similar textual works, including audio versions of those titles. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances. It doesn’t cover movies. These are the digital locks that make it hard to copy digital content. Article 2(c).

Copyright 158
article thumbnail

Cool App Roundup: Library Edition

Tech Soup

access related text, images, audio, and other content from. What all these apps have in common is that they use Worldcat , the enormous global catalog of library collections, to provide detailed information about books, CDs, and movies. databases (of music, books, and movies, respectively) they own or would. like to own.

Library 65
article thumbnail

Virtual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas to Explore

Qgiv

Movie nights. Host a virtual peer-to-peer fundraiser movie night! First, have your peer-to-peer volunteers collect gifts from anyone they know that would want to attend a virtual movie night. Their friends and family will love supporting a loved one while also watching a fun movie in the comforts of their own home.

Virtual 52