Austin's AIR Interactive Program Connects Artists and People With Disabilities to the Internet; Local Technology Volunteers Will Build Accessible Web Sites in Conjunction With SXSW.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2002 National nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. Knowbility today announced that it will begin registering volunteer Web design teams and Austin area musicians and artists who wish to participate in the upcoming Accessibility Internet Rally Interactive for the Arts (AIR Interactive). AIR Interactive is a series of training, panel discussion, and Web site design events produced by Knowbility that will be held January through March 2003. Training sessions for Web site design will be held at St. Edward's University
The school was founded by the Rev. Edward Sorin, CSC , Superior General of the Congregation of Holy Cross, who also founded the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Professional Education Center. AIR Interactive activities will culminate culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit. in a Web site design contest to benefit Austin area bands, musicians and arts organizations. Winners will be announced at the SXSW SXSW South By Southwest, Inc. (Texas music festival) Interactive Media Conference on March 10. Teresa Ferguson, a KUT KUT Kuenburg Tamsweg KUT Kortweg Uitermate Teleurstellend (Dutch) radio personality and passionate advocate for the arts in Austin, is the AIR Interactive chair for the second year. "AIR Interactive fuses together the strengths of the Austin community -- blending technological savvy used in a creative and beneficial format and the talent of local artists." AIR Interactive is produced in association with the SXSW Interactive Festival and will emphasize the development of rich media Web sites to introduce and address accessibility issues -- how people with disabilities access and use multimedia content on the Internet. Knowbility will produce panel discussions on the topic and present Web design awards during the festival as well. Primus Networks will host completed sites. AIR is an award-winning collaboration of the widely diverse elements of Austin's creative communities, including the tech sector, nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. arts organizations, musicians and bands. Macromedia, a leading U.S. software company, is an AIR sponsor. About AIR Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR) programs generate public awareness about the need and the benefits of accessible Web design for people with disabilities while giving developers the skills necessary to make a difference. The program operates as a Web-raising competition (Rally) where volunteer developers first receive hands-on accessibility training and then compete by building Web sites that exemplify ex·em·pli·fy tr.v. ex·em·pli·fied, ex·em·pli·fy·ing, ex·em·pli·fies 1. a. To illustrate by example: exemplify an argument. b. accessible Web development. About Knowbility Knowbility is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve access to technology opportunities for children, youth and adults with disabilities. Knowbility's sponsors include Dell, Macromedia and Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 America Foundation. For more information, visit www.knowbility.org. |
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