From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Tue Jan 17 13:34:03 2017 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:34:03 +0000 Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] Tactile Reading 2017 Stockholm April 5-7 Message-ID: <31a8f1ef04744b0399adc53a3713532b@MAIL2.statped.no> Forwarding update about the Tactile Reading 2017 conference in Stockholm http://www.epostservice.se/aspnet/v3/page/read.ashx?issueid=316444&userid=75520222&readid=2CD636AB39FA&umailid=2964764330 -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Thu Jan 26 08:17:20 2017 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 08:17:20 +0000 Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] DescribeAthon17 Message-ID: Forwarding Want a little audio description competition? The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute is hosting the DescribeAthon17 on Thursday, January 26, 2017! >From the site: On Thursday, January 26, 2017, amateur and professional describers all over the world will participate in this day of description. Volunteer describers will describe as many YouTube videos of as many kinds as we can in a single day. Join us from your own home or workplace, or by gathering with other volunteers at one of the in-person DescribeAthon meetups. In-person locations currently include: * In San Francisco at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute * In Manhattan at the New York Public Library, Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library Please contact us if you would like to organize a DescribeAthon17 meetup in your city! Volunteers will use YouDescribe - Smithg-Kettlewell's free, web-based tool for recording and playing audio description for any YouTube video. -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From dandrews at visi.com Thu Jan 26 19:08:48 2017 From: dandrews at visi.com (David Andrews) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 13:08:48 -0600 Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] FwdMN Children's Museum is Hiring! Message-ID: > >Jobs in Minnesota worth considering. >Dick Davis > >-----Original Message----- >From: Allison Gredesky [mailto:AGredesky at mcm.org] >Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 9:58 AM >To: Allison Gredesky >Subject: MN Children's Museum is Hiring! > >MCM is opening a bigger, better, bolder all-new museum in April 2017!! >This email serves as an effort to spread the word about a number of great >opportunities. Please share with your colleagues, friends, neighbors, and >community! > >We'd like to share a little bit about what to expect after applying for >this position. We are looking to hire 50+ new employees to work with our >visitors in various positions. MCM's recruitment team will be contacting >qualified candidates beginning January 30th. If you are hired you can >expect to join us for training on or around March 18th. Please call >651.225.6026 if you have questions. There will be an option to leave a >message and we'll get back to you! > >If you or someone you know can demonstrate stellar customer service along >with experience and/or interest in working with families and children, we >will likely have a position opening available! > >Please complete our online application in full. The more information you >provide, the easier it is for us to take steps to get you in the door! > >Applications: To be considered please complete the online application >process on our website: http://www.mcm.org/jobs > >Minnesota Children's Museum is dedicated to growing a diverse and >culturally competent team of highly engaged staff and volunteers. >Applicants from diverse populations are strongly encouraged to apply. > > > >Allison Gredesky | Director of Talent Resources >P: 651.225.6045 F: 651.225.6006 >AGredesky at mcm.org >10 West Seventh Street, St. Paul, MN 55102 Wrap up a bigger, better and >bolder ALL-NEW museum. They'll get big adventures and boundless >exploration in one simple package. 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Art. http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-please-touch-art-2297641 Two-Headed Raptor Show celebrates art, friendship http://www.theoaklandpress.com/arts-and-entertainment/20170126/two-headed-raptor-show-celebrates-art-friendship Survivor Finds Beauty Of Life Despite Blindness http://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/01/25/survivor-finds-beauty-of-life-despite-blindness/ -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From fnugg at online.no Tue Jan 31 08:35:52 2017 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:35:52 +0100 Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] Veterans and art, Smithsonian Message-ID: Two pals? art show is a party for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation http://www.thenewsherald.com/downriver_life/two-pals-art-show-is-a-party-for-cystic-fibrosis/article_37c79703-ea13-50cd-8444-ae40e0d9b2b2.html Interview with Barbara Oswald of the Mount Baker Neighborhood Center for the Arts. On the Eve of a New World http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlearts/2017/01/17/15361/ Blind veteran William Turner from Malvern has paintings included in Liverpool art exhibition http://www.malverngazette.co.uk/news/15028794.Blind_veteran_from_Malvern_has_paintings_included_in_Liverpool_art_exhibition/ 83-year-old blind veteran from Wirral to have paintings shown at St George?s Hall art exhibition http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/15025828.83_year_old_blind_veteran_from_Wirral_to_have_paintings_shown_at_St_George___s_Hall_art_exhibition/ "/Art ? Life Beyond Sight Loss"/ Date: 14 ? 29 January 2017 (excl. Mon and Tue) Time: 10am ? 4pm Location:St George?s Hall, Lime Street, Liverpool Admission: ?3 per adult, ?1.50 per child with reduced rates available for groups and schools. Since 1915 Blind Veterans UK has considered the study of art and craft skills to be an important element of rehabilitation for our blind veterans. Exploring the impact of arts and crafts on the lives of our veterans, ?Art ? Life Beyond Sight Loss? illustrates how it has enabled many of our veterans to build confidence, self-belief and independence. Visitors to the exhibition will also be given the opportunity to learn about the origins of the charity, Blind Veterans UK?s connections with Liverpool and how they can get involved. The exhibition will feature a variety of work produced by a number of blind veterans who have visited our Llandudno Centre for rehabilitation, training and respite, including landscape paintings, portraits, photography, ceramics and wood work, much of which is available for purchase or open for auction bids. Visitors will get the rare chance to view an outstanding modern version of the John Singer Sargent classic ?Gassed? painted by blind veteran Matthew Rhodes featuring thirteen blind veterans walking hand to shoulder. https://www.blindveterans.org.uk/what-you-can-do/events-calendar/art-life-beyond-sight-loss/ http://www.yourmovemagazine.com/tag/art-life-beyond-sight-loss http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-38622443 United States: Smithsonian American Art Museum Offers America InSight Tours For Blind And Visually Impaired Art Enthusiasts http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/x/558610/music+arts/Smithsonian+American+Art+Museum+Offers+America+InSight+Tours+For+Blind+And+Visually+Impaired+Art+Enthusiasts Blind Art Lovers Make The Most Of Museum Visits With 'InSight' Tours http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/05/505419694/blind-art-lovers-make-the-most-of-museum-visits-with-insight-tours /America InSight/: Verbal Description Tours http://americanart.si.edu/education/verbal/ Art Museum Tours For Visitors Who Are Blind http://eyelevel.si.edu/2016/08/art-museum-tours-for-visitors-who-are-blind.html Omaha woman who is losing her sight uses her art to fight her fears of eventually going blind http://www.omaha.com/living/omaha-woman-who-is-losing-her-sight-uses-her-art/article_a4bb4f7c-bf3b-521e-8b0a-c302a212ff8a.html Last chance to catch two standout exhibits at HMOA HUNTINGTON - Two unusual exhibits are going, going, gone up at the Huntington Museum of Art. Sunday, Jan. 8, is the last day to catch the touring exhibit "Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists" as well as "A Fragile Peace: The Magic of American Cameo Glass from The Touma Collection." Curated in 2009 by Douglas McCulloh and originated by UCR/California Museum of Photography, an affiliate institution of ARTSblock, the University of California, Riverside, "Sight Unseen" and its 100 photographs has been exhibited from Russia to Korea and from Canada to Mexico and all over the United States. It also spawned an HBO documentary about blind photographers. http://www.herald-dispatch.com/features_entertainment/last-chance-to-catch-two-standout-exhibits-at-hmoa/article_89a6197c-09b8-5244-9054-26c1308f3a2d.html Blind Art Lovers Make The Most Of Museum Visits With 'InSight' Tours http://www.wnyc.org/story/blind-art-lovers-make-the-most-of-museum-visits-with-insight-tours/ From fnugg at online.no Tue Jan 31 12:01:47 2017 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:01:47 +0100 Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] Mickel Smithen, facebook Message-ID: <6a2b1f9b-286a-3949-7f17-9eeceab276bd@online.no> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-08/imagined-touch-deafblind-performance-art-pushes-audience-senses/7822508 Smooth ride for the blind: IITians design a unique map that will help visually impaired people 'understand the routes' on Delhi Metro http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-4167372/IITians-design-unique-Metro-map-help-blind.html NATMO launches world?s first atlas for the visually impaired http://scrolltoday.com/natmo-launches-worlds-first-atlas-visually-impaired/ Made in India: World's first full atlas for the blind http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/made-in-india-worlds-first-full-atlas-for-the-blind/articleshow/56400928.cms A revelatory book of photographs taken by visually impaired people https://boingboing.net/2017/01/25/a-revelatory-book-of-photograp.html Meet Mickel Smithen, a blind photographer (WATCH) ickel Smithen is an exceptionally talented blind photographer who captures images with the aid of his other senses. According the Smithen, photography is a chance to express what he has going on in his mind, what he imagined and would like to see. Facebook uses computer vision algorithms to caption your photos http://www.vision-systems.com/articles/2017/01/facebook-uses-computer-vision-algorithms-to-caption-your-photos.html https://www.ghacks.net/2017/01/04/show-tags-facebook-photos/ Two pals? art show is a party for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation http://www.thenewsherald.com/downriver_life/two-pals-art-show-is-a-party-for-cystic-fibrosis/article_37c79703-ea13-50cd-8444-ae40e0d9b2b2.html From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Wed Feb 1 08:12:31 2017 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 08:12:31 +0000 Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] Only 20 tickets left! - Tactile Reading. Braille and graphics Message-ID: <4cda0d7e318e4666b9b9a7ccb9d592d1@MAIL2.statped.no> Forwarding Tactile Reading. Braille and graphics for children and youth. Stockholm April 5 - 7, 2017 Only 20 tickets left! People from all over the world are showing a great interest in participating in the conference in different ways, as delegates, speakers or exhibitors and we are now more than 280 participants. We are looking forward to meeting you all! For you who have not registered yet, the conference has a limited number of tickets, but there is still time to join, so register now to ensure your seat. We have decided to extend the registration date due to the overwhelming interest in the conference. The registration will be open until we reach 300 participants, and now there are 20 tickets left! Make the registration here Choose the sessions that fit your interest We offer you a wide spectrum of talented speakers from countries all over the world all engaged in the field of tactile reading. Our speakers will highlight 5 important topics: * Development of tactual understanding * Tactile reading and the brain * Braille and literacy * Tactile graphics * Universal design and tactile reading Go to Speakers at the conference site and read about all the sessions. 3 questions to ... ... the speakers Anders R?nnb?ck and Kia Johansson from The Swedish National Agency of Special Needs Education and Schools, SPSM. 1. What will you talk about? The presentation will be about how to strengthen the tactile decoding of braille. Sighted children learn the shapes of letters long before school start in both spontaneous and structured reading and writing activities. A child with blindness however meets tactile characters to a very limited extent and needs to be compensated for the lack of corresponding stimulation. 2. What do you want the audience to learn from your presentation? We want the audience to be convinced that specific training interventions can improve tactile reading performance. 3. What are you looking forward to, most of all? We look forward meeting lots of interesting and inspiring people working in the field of tactile reading, and to learn about new research. The latest news about the conference Join our Facebook event to get the latest news about the conference! It's an open event so feel free to invite your colleagues and friends. Please notice that even if you join the event you still have to register to the conference at the website. Read all about the conference: www.tactilereading.org -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Wed Feb 15 12:17:47 2017 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:17:47 +0000 Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] Epub and accessible graphics Message-ID: <05bd3b48fdd7499abf9a5bc585f56815@MAIL2.statped.no> Forwarding Special Keynote Speaker Announcement We are pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for the NFB eBooks and EPUB accessibility event will be George Kerscher, Ph.D. George Kerscher is President of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), Chief Innovations Officer for the DAISY Consortium, Senior Advisor, Global Literacy at Benetech and Chair of the Steering Council of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Dr. Kerscher's topic will be "Ushering in the born accessible era." This presentation will explain how the EPUB Accessibility Specification 1.0 will enable publishers to boast about the fine work they have done to make their publications born accessible to persons with disabilities. It will go on to explain what it takes to meet the minimum baseline for accessibility. Finally a vision of how the certification of born accessible publications can impact education in both K-12 and higher education will be imagined. Event Details In addition to the talk by Dr. Kerscher there will be sessions on a variety of topics including but not limited to: * Upcoming release of the EPUB accessibility conformance specification * Latest updates to EPUB to be released in version 3.1 * Accessibility certification * The importance of choosing your platform and distribution channel * Accessible graphics and what is and is not possible in EPUB * What to look for when outsourcing production Don't miss this opportunity to meet experts in the industry and ensure that your print-disabled users can join the rest of the world in enjoying the convenience and power of the EPUB revolution. This event will be hosted under the auspices of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) Center of Excellence in Nonvisual Access to Education, Public Information, and Commerce (CENA), with financial support through the Non-Visual Accessibility Initiative grant from the State of Maryland. The CENA serves to share the considerable knowledge that the NFB and its partners have of web accessibility and access technology in order to bring about greater accessibility in government, education, and business; to promote best practices nationally; and to build Maryland?s status as leader in the field. Registration The registration fee is $100 (regular registration) and $25 (student registration with valid student ID) Register now! This event will be held at the NFB Jernigan Institute at: 200 East Wells Street Baltimore, MD 21230 Additional Information For more information, please visit Accessible eBooks National Federation of the Blind 200 East Wells Street Baltimore, MD 21230 United States (410) 659-9314 Unsubscribe from this mailing or unsubscribe from all future mailings. -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services-