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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Having learning disabilities or various learning differences, they need alternative reading environments that rely on their strengths rather than on their weaknesses. Bookshare has grown into the largest online digital library of accessible books and periodicals in the U.S., In September 2007, the U.S. There are some 7.5

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Design Series: Ensuring Accessibility

Forum One

So at Forum One, we don’t have to do a lot of convincing about the importance of accessibility, but there are still a lot of questions about how best to build digital experiences that welcome and respect all users. Accessibility lessons from a lifeguard Growing up in the Pocono Mountains, I had the luxury of learning to swim in a river.

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Adapt and Overcome

VQ Strategies

Adapt and Overcome: How 2020 Brings Innovation and Flexibility for Volunteer-Led Programs For the US Marines, the concept of “Adapt and Overcome” is central to their philosophy of innovation and problem solving to address all challenges, unexpected situations, and chaotic environments. There are always alternatives. JG: Be creative.

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Addressing Accessibility in Social Media

NTEN

These needs may relate to accessibility and the user-friendliness of your site for those with auditory, visual, cognitive or mobility impairments. So when building these forms, how can you capture the information you need while still maintaining accessibility? User Accounts & Profiles. Social Conversations.

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How tech can help people with dementia stay in the workplace longer

Fast Company Tech

Several years later, Paul regrets his unwanted unemployment, but at the time there didnt seem to be an alternative. If a worker has impaired wayfinding, mapping apps can be tailored to working environments and live location data can be used to guide staff around complicated sites. This is hardly futuristic tech.

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Four Nonprofit Web Accessibility Best Practices for 2022

sgEngage

But, did you truly factor in all supporters— especially regarding the accessibility of your site? If you didn’t prioritize accessibility best practices when creating your nonprofit’s website, you could be excluding a significant portion of your nonprofit’s supporters from engaging with it. Let’s get started.

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‘Stranger Things’ actor wants to spread the wealth around tbh, his vegan Nutella alternative

TechCrunch

And now, Schnapp is turning to investing platform Republic to give his fans, and the masses, an opportunity to invest in the company behind the Nutella alternative for as little as $50. Also important, Schnapp says, is what it does not contain: palm oil, an edible vegetable oil that some argue is harmful to the environment.