KNOWBILITY INC
I served on a disability committee of the state bar association in Austin and participated in the 2001 AIR-Austin rally, working with web developers to create a website for the committee. The resulting product was outstanding, and it was an incredible experience.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Ensuring that non-profits had access to the tools and help to make sure that their websites were not only well-designed but fully accessible.
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If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
make sure that more people knew about it.
I help run the ATSTAR Program - an online assistive technology program for school districts, teachers and parents. This program helps users understand how to help kids in K-12 grades use assistive technology to improve in the classroom. Its been rewarding to work with so many great educators, and learn how ATSTAR has positively impacted students by increasing thier use of Assistive Technology in the classroom, improving their education!
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
hearing great feedback from teachers nationwide as they complete the online ATSTAR Program
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How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every week
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
I've been following Knowbility for years - it has made a huge difference in breaking down the barriers to technology for people with disabilities. Knowbility's goal is to make technology accessible to all people. Their program to employ disabled veterans to help remediate inaccessible documents was a stroke of genius and is providing jobs and opportunities to our precious veterans. I believe that with the appropriate support and recognition from Guidestar, they can begin to scale their operation to people around the world!
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
its program for disabled vets. If companies and governments would take accessibility seriously, we could scale this operation and hire a lot more vets! And the result would include the availability of lots more accessible documents.
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How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every month
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
Knowbility has altered the thinking of thousands of people regarding access to technology for people with disabilities. Spend a few minutes at a Knowbility-related event and you will start seeing access for people with disabilities to the Internet, and to technology-related education and jobs, as a civil rights issue. Knowbility staff and volunteers do this through all sorts of workshops, classes and events - my favorite is the Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR) events, which start off as a fun contest where all sorts of volunteers from the corporate world compete against each other to create web sites for nonprofits. But something much deeper happens by the end of the event -- and as a result, the volunteers go back to their corporations and businesses as accessibility advocates. The AIR event is, IMO, the best corporate volunteering event EVER, because it creates *real* impact.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
my work. I incorporate accessibility into every technology task I work on. It often stops designers I'm working with in their tracks -- "What's 'Accessibility'?" But the result is that everything I'm associated with online can be accessed by *everyone*.
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What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
that they have REAL impact. They don't just count their success with "this many people attended an event." They look at how people's perceptions have changed and how their won, individual work has changed, as a result of their involvement.
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
fun, funky, and fearless.
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
make the Internet -- the Web, FaceBook, txt messaging, online calls, YouTube -- accessible to *everyone*.
How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About once a year
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
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