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jcravens
Review for Knowbility Inc, Austin, TX, USA
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*.
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
