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Go Green with Video, Audio, and Web Conferencing

Tech Soup

The multimedia applications allow virtual work groups to use the Internet to see each others' faces in small windows on their monitors, hear each others' voices on computer speakers, deliver presentations, edit files, and collaborate on whiteboards. So far, the Skype premium mobile phone app allows only group audio calls.

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How to Measure Podcast Downloads

Whole Whale

A podcast is basically a coded feed of XML that lists the information about your podcast, titles, descriptions and a link to where the MP3 audio file lives. Once this file is downloaded by a user’s device, your ability to track what they do with that file falls off of a cliff. Trying to track podcasts is pretty similar.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia.

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Advancing Reading Equality with Bookshare’s Exponential Growth

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. Bookshare titles range from vocational to research to teacher-recommended reading. The majority of our members are U.S.

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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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New and Notable: What’s Coming With WordPress 4.9

Byte Technology

version introduced a whole bunch of new media widgets such as rich text, audio and video etc. As far as “under the hood” changes go, look for better mapping for theme widgets and navigation menus when you choose to switch themes; a ditching of the SWFUpload library; and recurring and automatic searches for files in plugin and theme editors.

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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. And that’s how Bookshare was founded.