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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of their main challenges is that they do not have adequate access to educational materials that are necessary to learn and succeed in school. Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges.

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Start Using AI in 2024

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Along with access to the latest version, ChatGPT 4 Turbo, which is the most intelligent model available at the time of writing, it also provides access to an array of additional tools. Such a policy ensures that AI tools are used in ways that support your organisation’s goals and are broadly accepted across the team.

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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We're up to more than 125,000 users, with over 95,000 books available, and our users are now accessing content at a rate of more than million downloads per year! That's why it's painful to hear about disputes over denying students with very real print disabilities access to these resources.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. The draft can be downloaded from WIPO. This draft can be downloaded from the DAISY Consortium. . •

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Why your association needs to adopt a data governance policy

Nimble AMS

Does your association have a data governance policy? Continue reading to learn how your association can adopt its own data governance policy and become a more data-driven organization. A set of rules, metrics, or policies established by an organization to bring clarity and ease of use to data practices is a data governance policy.

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GitHub reinstated a YouTube video downloader that the RIAA claimed was a piracy tool

The Verge

GitHub has reinstated an open-source tool for downloading YouTube videos, and it’s changed its policies to make similar copyright-related takedowns less likely. But there are also several legal exceptions to Section 1201, including breaking copy protection for educational use and accessibility purposes. Photo: GitHub.

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Top Ten Data Challenges (And Solutions) for Associations

Association Analytics

9: Your Data Is Not Readily Available Challenge : You need to put a report together by the end of the week, but the person who has access to the data you need is out on vacation for the week. Solution : Solve this challenge by creating a data capture policy. Solution : First, don’t confuse availability with accessibility.