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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. This is satisfied by having a law like the Chafee Amendment in the U.S., or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU.

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Making the world more accessible with web design

Candid

It’s the idea that anyone in the world, regardless of location, language, disability, or platform, can participate or engage with something. To start fixing this problem, prioritize accessibility with your nonprofit website. How does the ADA impact your nonprofit organization? Read on to learn more. . What is web accessibility?

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Navigating Resilience & Opportunity in a Changed World

Saleforce Nonprofit

Last week, I had the immense pleasure of hosting a virtual discussion and Q&A with a group of nonprofit CEOs and CIOs to talk about how they’re navigating opportunity and building resilience in this changed world we all find ourselves in. Nonprofit leaders often wonder how to navigate the endless priorities that continually challenge us.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The treaty does a lot of things, but let me highlight a few: • A global norm that there be copyright exceptions that allow for the making of accessible versions of copyrighted works for free on a nonprofit basis by a broad range of people or organizations, without having to get permission from the rightsholders. Excludes video. •

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Can You Use Your Own Photos on Your Website? Maybe Not

Tech Soup

They also help demonstrate the human impact of nonprofits' and libraries' work. law that covers this is called the right of publicity. This means that the rules for consent apply not only to photos, but also to videos and audio recordings. How to Get Consent for Photos, Videos, and Audio. You can indeed.

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Virtual Meetings: Their Flaws, and Hacks to Make Them Better

ASU Lodestar Center

Especially for smaller businesses and nonprofits, which need to do more with less, meeting virtually is a necessary evil. Problem: No body language means less emotion and memory. In a face-to-face meeting it's body language that gives us most of this information. Virtual meetings are part of working in 2016. Conclusion.

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