Claude Almansi's Public Library

"Accessibility is often perceived as a moral and civic obligation, but also as a drag, something shackling the creativity of programmers - whether in real life or online. Actually, accessibility rules and guidelines can enhance creativity, just as metrics rules for the sonnet and other poetry forms.
The challenge of making Venice as accessible as possible for people in wheelchair has lead to very interesting solutions, which are also useful for parents who visit the city with small kids in prams, or travelers carting suitcases on wheels, without defacing the historical architecture.
Similarly, in education, making learning objects accessible to students with various kinds of disabilities also facilitates different learning approaches, according to each student's learning style."

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"Top decision-makers targeted with DVD explaining the need for websites to be accessible to people with disabilities "

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"Wikipedia-Kritiker Felix von Leitner über Zensurzwänge, Kontrollmechanismen und Chancen des Online-Lexikons"

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"...7. Wenn dem Onlinejournalismus etwas fehlt, ist es guter, anständig bezahlter Journalismus. Die Verleger jammern über zuwenig Beachtung ihrer Angebote und zuviel Rip-Offs, bezahlen zugleich ihren Onlineangestellten vergleichsweise Peanuts. Das ist scheinheilig."

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"This site contains a collection of computer based artifacts that simulate aspects of disability. It is intended that the simulations will be used for training and awareness raising activities with staff and for teaching students in areas where an understanding of disability is required."

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"The Social Media Guide looks at the accessibility features in a number of popular social media tools, including Skype, Facebook, YouTube and many others, while the Social Media Accessibility Review reports on the overall state of accessibility across social media.\n\n"Social media are the cornerstones of modern communication and it is essential that people with disabilities, who can become socially isolated, are able to use these tools and stay connected with the world. The Guide and Review are part of MAA's ongoing contribution to make all forms of electronic media accessible," said MAA CEO Alex Varley."

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"The Social Media Accessibility Review aims to improve understanding of accessible design and raise awareness of good practice across the largest Social Media players.
For Version 1.0 of this report Media Access Australia has considered six of the most popular Social Media services according to a number of statistical measures.

The review suggests that if a site is accessible it is typically successful. Media Access Australia predicts that in such a competitive market accessibility will become central to the development of Social Media businesses."

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""Author and activist Cory Doctorow argues that the Internet is too central to our lives to be taken away for three accusations of copyright infringement. Along the way he proposes that turnabout is fair play, and thus Universal (for example) ought to have its access to the Net taken away if it issues three false accusations of infringement.""

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"Il presidente di Mediaset invita l'esecutivo a intervenire affinché Google e Youtube riconoscano il valore della proprietà intellettuale dei prodotti diffusi gratuitamente"

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"Durante un discorso in Parlamento, Elisabetta II ha annunciato i piani del governo per l'economia digitale. Tra questi, l'introduzione delle disconnessioni forzose dei file sharer entro la primavera del 2011"

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"Le leggi draconiane adottate in Corea del Sud da alcuni mesi non stanno dando i risultati sperati dall’industria del copyright, che ora chiede una legislazione ancora più dura."

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Video. Captions in EN and subtitles in FR - anyone can add subtitles in other languages.

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"Would you like to embed YouTube® videos on your website? Would you like to ensure that your website viewers with disabilities have equal access to your video? "

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"I’ve posted a video interview with Cory Doctorow at Broadband Strategy Week. Cory talks about the disproportionality of “three strikes” laws that take away Internet access from those who have been thrice accused of copyright infringement. Perhaps, he suggests, we should also take away Internet access from rightsholders who inaccurately accuse people of infringing copyright. The six minutes are a string of wonderful Cory paragraphs."

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"Is the fate of books a forgone conclusion? Will they just continue to make their way out of print and into digital form? This week’s guest, author Cory Doctorow, suggests that we might want to keep books in print for a little while longer. Not just out of nostalgia – but actually to protect the institution of copyright."

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"Creative Commons LicenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
Author and activist Cory Doctorow argues that the Internet is too central to our lives to be taken away for three accusations of copyright infringement. Along the way he proposes that turnabout is fair play, and thus Universal (for example) ought to have its access to the Net taken away if it issues three false accusations of infringement. "

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"Such accountability is available in the U.S. system, but it cannot come from the Office of the USTR alone. If ACTA is going to regulate the global Internet, we believe that should warrant the opportunity for public comment."

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"Google’s accessibility mission

Information access is at the core of Google’s mission – to make the world’s information universally accessible and useful. That’s why in addition to crawling, indexing and ranking billions of websites, images, videos and other content, we also work to make that content available in all languages and in accessible formats.

We want to make information available to everyone, and that includes people with disabilities, such as blindness, visual impairment, color deficiency, deafness, hearing loss and limited dexterity. We’ve found that providing alternative access modes like keyboard shortcuts, captions, high-contrast views and text-to-speech technology helps everyone, not just people with disabilities. For example, keyboard shortcuts help power users get things done more quickly without using a mouse, speech-to-text technology enables people to skim and search audio content, and custom product themes give people more opportunities to personalize. "

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"However, like everything YouTube does, captions face a tremendous challenge of scale. Every minute, 20 hours of video are uploaded. How can we expect every video owner to spend the time and effort necessary to add captions to their videos? Even with all of the captioning support already available on YouTube, the majority of user-generated video content online is still inaccessible to people like me.

To help address this challenge, we've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. The captions will not always be perfect (check out the video below for an amusing example), but even when they're off, they can still be helpful—and the technology will continue to improve with time.

In addition to automatic captions, we’re also launching automatic caption timing, or auto-timing, to make it significantly easier to create captions manually. With auto-timing, you no longer need to have special expertise to create your own captions in YouTube. All you need to do is create a simple text file with all the words in the video and we’ll use Google’s ASR technology to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for your video. This should significantly lower the barriers for video owners who want to add captions, but who don’t have the time or resources to create professional caption tracks."

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"On November 5th Michael Geist spoke at the American University in Washington about the ACTA. His presentation was part of a panel called "Strengthening IP Enforcement Through TRIPS and Other Multilateral Initiatives", with Daniel Gervais and Peter Yu and moderated by Padideh Ala'i (Webcast here).

Geist predicted that by 2010 ACTA will be fully drafted, that by 2011 it will be publicly disclosed, and that by 2012 efforts will have begun to expand the circle of countries to which ACTA applies. Countries excluded from ACTA will be presented with a fait accompli. They will have had no influence on the ACTA text. Nevertheless, they will eventually be asked to sign the document. Geist argues that, therefore, excluded countries should be banging down the door of ACTA, saying they want input now."

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