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The Road to Accessibility without Borders: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. And when you sign the treaty, you haven’t succeeded. HathiTrust.

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Tech Tip: Print Double-Sided or Not At All

Tech Soup

Most people I know with "non-duplexing" printers don't go to the trouble to print double-sided manually. Worldwide, we're deforesting the equivalent of Panama each year ; an estimated 4 billion trees are cut down each year for paper. Also, you need a printer that has the ability to print double-sided. spanhidden.

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Colombia is the 2nd Happiest Place for the Planet

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People pay when they enter the station, not when they go into the bus. You can get 100 people out of the bus and 100 people onto the bus in seconds because they have already paid and the bus is at the same level as the station, so it is accessible to wheelchairs." The top ranked countries were: 1. Colombia 3. Costa Rica 4.