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Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets

Ars Technica

Bias is an obvious answer, but it's hard to eliminate an alternative explanation: Minority groups may engage in more unsafe driving, and the police are trying to deter that. But now, Lyft has given a group of researchers access to detailed data from their drivers. But this leaves open the question of why.

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Breakthrough on Global Access at WIPO in Geneva!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There has been a major breakthrough recently on international copyright negotiations in Geneva around improved access for people who have print disabilities. Answer : A copyright exception makes it much easier for people with print disabilities to get access to the materials they need for education, employment and social inclusion.

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ADA Compliance and Your Website

Byte Technology

This means that any company that provides service for the general public must ensure that its structure has room for or can accommodate people living with disabilities of any kind. No matter how long your website has been up and running, it’s never too late to be sure you are reaching everyone and maintaining a well accessible website.

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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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Making the Web Accessible: Color Choices

Media Cause

In honor of GAAD, we’ll be diving into accessibility across digital marketing starting with website accessibility. . Paying attention to contrast ratios is one of the easiest ways we can adapt our websites to be more accessible for color blind people. I’ve worked for over 15 years in marketing as a project manager.

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Print Access for All: Anna Reid in Chennai

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A related, but slightly different and less recognized issue, is the fact that people with disabilities such as blindness often have limited access to printed materials, even if they are well-educated. There is enormous potential for finding cross-cultural solutions to issues of disability and print access. www.bookshare.org.

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Data Access API over Data Lake Tables Without the Complexity

Towards Data Science

Data Access API over Data Lake Tables Without the Complexity Build a robust GraphQL API service on top of your S3 data lake files with DuckDB and Go Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash 1. Suppose that we have a data lake table that stores real-time statistics about our customers generated by some Spark application.

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