RNIB joins with broadcasters to get more people using audio description

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is supporting a high profile advertising campaign aimed at helping people to use audio description on their televisions. UK Broadcasters including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, UKTV, and Viacom are taking part in the campaign, with promotional adverts airing from 17 July – 9 September 2018. Audio description is a free service that can transform TV viewing for people who have difficulty seeing what’s happening on the screen. Like a narrator telling a story, an additional commentary describes body language, expressions and movements,…

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Google & The REC Foundation Empower More Girls To Enter Stem Fields With Second Annual Girl Powered Workshop

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation was excited to help host the Google Girl Powered VEX Robotics Workshop, uniting 565 middle and high school girls for a weekend of STEM fun last weekend at the Google in Sunnyvale, CA. The students gathered with Google engineers to build and program VEX EDR robots, network and meet others during a series of Girl Powered activities, and put their newly built robots to the test playing a version of the VEX Robotics Competition game Turning Point. The Workshop is an effort to…

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The LGBT Israel Task Force and Creator of Eurovision’s Winning Song ‘Toy’ Fight for the Israeli LGBT Community and Present: ‘Waiting in YouTube’s Antechamber’

The LGBT Israel Task Force (‘The Aguda’) and renowned Israeli composer and song writer Doron Medalie are launching together with Google a very unusual YouTube experience. This experience will effectively turn pre-roll ads into a waiting room where people wanting to listen to one of Medalie’s many hits will have to patiently wait, while listening to a series of interviews. But with Medalie’s songs figuring in most Israelis’ playlists, the LGBT Israel Task Force have essentially hacked the medium and ensured their message is heard through YouTube. With close to…

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PGA Golfer Tim Herron Teams Up with Endo Pharmaceuticals to Encourage Parents to Get Their Own Check-Ups This Back-to-School Season

Fresh off a successful summer of tournament play, four-time PGA TOUR winner Tim Herron is once again teaming up with Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., a subsidiary of Endo International plc, on Facts on Hand, an educational campaign to raise awareness of Dupuytren’s Contracture, a common yet often misunderstood hand condition. For the campaign’s second year, Herron is bringing an interactive experience to three PGA TOUR tournaments to illustrate the challenges he has faced as a professional golfer living with Dupuytren’s Contracture. Herron is one of the estimated 16 million people in…

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Charlottesville Stands With The Citizens Of D.C. By Launching “Joined in Strength” Solidarity Campaign

The Charlottesville Albemarle Convention & Visitors Bureau (CACVB) has launched “Joined in Strength,” a solidarity campaign timed for the upcoming one-year anniversary of the deadly white nationalists rally that disrupted the city. After Charlottesville officials refused to allow the city to be used as a platform for hate again, the right-wing groups behind “Unite the Right” announced the move of their anniversary rally on August 12 to Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square across from the White House. Several groups are mobilizing a counterprotest in Freedom Plaza. The Joined in Strength campaign…

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