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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

government and states like Texas. It was again a grant from the Lavelle Fund (our third) that allowed us to develop the ability to provide accessible MP3 audio versions of our materials and realize the enormous potential impact of mobile reading options for individuals with print disabilities. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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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.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something? Do you have the news clippings of major events in your files? Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. Joining the board (which is an opportunity to govern). Phone call to the donor from a person impacted by the nonprofit.

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ADA Lawsuits Against Website Owners Are Increasing: Mitigate Risk By Making Your Site Web Accessible

Byte Technology

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! AA standards, which includes captioning and audio description requirements. government may withhold state funding if the state doesn’t comply with Section 508. For example, the U.S.

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Donor Relations: 4 Stewardship Tips During a Pandemic

Achieve

in the United States filed for unemployment at the onset of COVID-19. This means that there were 30 million people just trying to make ends meet and relying on government help to pay bills. We recommend keeping the video and audio both on for these meetings. OFFER NON-FINANCIAL WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE. 30 million individuals.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Before Benetech was founded, blind people were read to either in person by a family member, volunteer, or paid reader, or via audio cassette tape. Fundamentally, the Arkenstone Reader allowed blind people to create their own personal ebook as a text file that could be read in something like Microsoft Word. The first was the ebook.

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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.