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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. These were the days when people had just one PC at home.

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Four Nonprofit Web Accessibility Best Practices for 2022

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Your nonprofit’s website is your “home” on the internet. Generally speaking, most nonprofits are required to abide by the ADA— any organization with 15 or more employees that has “public accommodations” or services or facilities open to the general public is required to comply. Live captions. Live ASL interpreters.

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The Future (and a Little History) of Network Neutrality

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Steve MacLaughlin, Director of Internet Solutions, Blackbaud. There's little doubt that most of us who use the Internet every day have at least heard about Net Neutrality. In short, there are corporate entities trying to control what gets sent over the Internet, and the Internet as we know and love it today might be lost.

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

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From questions about the actual production of the files, to distribution, to listener metrics and feedback, there are plenty of moving parts that can raise questions. 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.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. It’s $.24

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

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Slack Platform overview: Slack is a messaging platform that enables employees to send and receive multimedia messages, including regular chats as well as audio and video clips. This can streamline everything from new employee onboarding to cross-team collaboration and secure file sharing. This keeps all conversations focused.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

WebHuddle is free, and open source. But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle. ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer).

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