Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle. And that is setting back the cause of people with disabilities who need that kind of access. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Volkswagen, GM, Amazon, and the USPS pledged a commitment to green vehicles. They believe everyone deserves access to safe and welcoming public spaces, regardless of where they live. Southern Environmental Law Center. How Southern Environmental Law Center Takes Action on Earth Day. The six largest banks in the U.S.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Similarly, companies like Amazon are making it easy for anyone to create powerful natural language processing or computer vision models without needing to build their own complex deep learning infrastructure. With the formal launch of the EU’s GDPR law (along with thousands of “we’ve updated our privacy policy!”

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

” You can find it on Amazon, but I’m going to sort of give you a cheat sheet today and share some of the principles in it with you so you don’t have to buy the book. A lot of the work we do at Big Duck is about helping organizations articulate their voice. Hopefully, you’ll get some good value from this.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. Platform interfaces provide no messaging services or profiles that workers can access. At first glance, it’s not entirely obvious what Amazon gets out of the platform. to automate fast-food restaurants).

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And we need a set of companies that see this not simply as a compliance issue—that is, “Are we following the law?”—but, So, we talk about a system Amazon built, for example, for résumé screening. Those involved with the Amazon résumé initiative saw these biases. How do we weigh them off against some of our other goals?”

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