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New York metro transit systems add on-demand sign language interpreters

Engadget

Musano was born deaf, and the audio-only announcements were of no help. Today, the company is announcing a partnership with the New York Transit Authority, New Jersey Transit and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey that brings its service to area airports, trains and other major transit hubs.

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Constituent Empowerment, as old as Lady Liberty

Connection Cafe

Author: James Young. While touring the island, listening to my pleasant audio guide chattering away on my headphones, I learned of a constituent empowerment campaign from long ago. Pulitzer’s tactics were not exactly the same as what I call constituent empowerment but it is pretty close. Let me tell you about it.

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Data Culture in the wild with Seattle Seahawks, VMWare, and Jaguar Land Rover

Tableau

We heard from our fans consistently [that] some couldn’t hear our audio,” Sprangers told Tableau’s Mark Nelson. When Amy Sprangers of the Seahawks thinks about the agile decision making afforded by data, she points to fan feedback. “We Listen to my complete conversation with Seema Singhal, VMWare’s Head of Analytics and Insights.

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Data Culture in the wild with Seattle Seahawks, VMWare, and Jaguar Land Rover

Tableau

We heard from our fans consistently [that] some couldn’t hear our audio,” Sprangers told Tableau’s Mark Nelson. When Amy Sprangers of the Seahawks thinks about the agile decision making afforded by data, she points to fan feedback. . “We Listen to my complete conversation with Seema Singhal, VMWare’s Head of Analytics and Insights.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

She has co-authored publications on fair taxation, housing and the racial wealth divide. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland. That is a project that trains low-income women, or no-income women, to tell their own stories through audio documentaries. That can happen all over the country.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our commitment to braille literacy means that the entire Bookshare collection of over 198,000 titles (and counting) is available not only for use in text, audio or the combination, played with a wide variety of assistive technology tools, but also formatted for use on electronic braille displays. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. That is not a particularly radical belief among librarians, but I hope to make you believe even more in the power of books.