Be NetSquared: Year 3
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NetSquared is an initiative of TechSoup
NetSquared enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.
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Results of Huge Experiment
Net2 called it a "huge experiment," and we took it in that spirit when we posted our ATSTAR program as a candidate - thanks for the opportunity to jump in with you! I am sharing results so far and would love to hear from others who posted projects.
ATSTAR - Assistive Technology: Strategies, Tools, Accommodations and Resources
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Our program is aimed at helping K-12 children with disabilities level the playing field in school using assistive technology within the classroom. We empower teachers and parents with a process to help implement AT and keep kids included.
Accessibility - make it happen!
If you are trying to solve accessibility barriers for your software and / or Web 2.0 site, we will host a round table during the 3:15 sessions. Anyone having accessibility interest, expertise or phobia...come join me and Glenda the Goodwitch for a lively problem solving session.
Mobilizing communities around tech access for disabled
Knowbility.org http://www.knowbility.org/air/?content=home Austin, Houston, Boston, Indianapolis, other citeis |
Since 1998, Knowbility's AIR (Accessibility Internet Rally) program has introduced tech professionals to the concept of making applications accessible to everyone - including people with disabilities. Using tech sector networks and listserves, Knowbility issues a challenge to the local ... |
Must we get together to get things done?
The NetTuesday group in Houston met on Monday, actually. Our local NetSquared MeetUp heard from Knowbility's Kelsey Ruger, an extraordinary thinker about the power of technology to bring about social change. Katie Laird blogged it.
Many in the Houston Net Tuesday Meetup have noticed that Kelsey serves as a kind of human bridge between innovative groups of social activists, including the NetSquared group; Refresh Houston - a collection of accessibility and standards experts; and AIR-Houston - the annual accessible web design contest that benefits dozens of nonprofits from the greater Houston area.
Web 2.1 - Let's make 2.0 Accessible
Howdy from Austin Texas, where the nonprofit Knowbility pursues its mission. We support the independence of kids and adults with disabilities by promoting the use and increasing the occurance of accessible information technology.
I am pretty excited about attending the NetSquared conference with my good friend and key volunteer Glenda Sims - also known as the Good Witch of the Web. In early April Glenda and I and several of the accessiblity experts that Knowbility has the good fortune to work with spent a week in San Francisco to teach the California Web Accessibility Conference (CalWAC).
