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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> 'Chancey Fleet' via Technology Programs at Andrew Heiskell Braille & Talking Book Library <HeiskellTech@googlegroups.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 15, 2025 7:53 PM<br><b>To:</b> heiskelltech@googlegroups.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Coming up Friday at 455 5th Ave: Accessible Culture, Community, and Tech Fair<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Come join us for this annual free event: no registration required. The fair is on the 7th floor of our Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, 455 5th Ave. Volunteers will be on hand to offer direction and guidance See below for details:<o:p></o:p></p></div><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt' id=page-title><span style='font-size:21.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal'>NYPL's Accessible Community, Culture, and Technology Fair<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Date and Time<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Friday, October 17, 2025, 11 AM - 4 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>End times are approximate. Events may end early or late.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=multi-location-label><span style='font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Location<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='color:#36322D'><a href="http://www.nypl.org/locations/snfl"><span style='color:#36322D'>Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Event Center</span></a></span></u><span style='color:#36322D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:3.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.5pt'><i><span style='color:#0067B0'>Fully accessible to wheelchairs</span></i><span style='color:#0067B0'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:3.0pt;margin-bottom:1.5rem'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.5pt'><i><span style='color:#0067B0'>Fully accessible to wheelchairs</span></i><span style='color:#0067B0'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div style='border-top:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;border-right:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-bottom:2rem;padding-top:2rem'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Event Details<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=field-item><span style='color:black'>Join us for our Accessible Community, Culture, and Technology Fair on Friday, October 17th, from 11 AM to 4 PM at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) on 5th Avenue and 40th Street. This fair precedes NYPL\u2019s Accessible Technology Conference 2025: Connect - Innovate - Act on </span><u><span style='color:#0071CE'><a href="https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2025/10/18/nypls-accessible-technology-conference-2025-connect-innovate-act-day-1"><span style='color:#0071CE'>Saturday, October 18</span></a></span></u><span style='color:black'> and </span><u><span style='color:#0071CE'><a href="https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2025/10/18/nypls-accessible-technology-conference-2025-connect-innovate-act-day-2"><span style='color:#0071CE'>Sunday, October 19</span></a></span></u><span style='color:black'>. </span><o:p></o:p></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal'>What to Expect:</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Tablers from diverse fields: education, employment, advocacy, arts, recreation, technology demonstrations, and support organizations<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>A <u><span style='color:#0071CE'><a href="https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2025/10/17/keynote-address-anastasia-somoza-accessible-community-culture-and"><span style='color:#0071CE'>keynote speech by Disability Rights Advocate Anastasia Somoza</span></a></span></u><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Interactive demos and more!<o:p></o:p></li></ul><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal'>Featured Tablers: </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>3Doodler</span>: Empowers hands-on learning and creative exploration in 3D.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>A Cubed Design</span>: Developing a refreshable braille device that is affordable, repairable by users, and offers pathways to literacy and employment.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Able News/Viscardi Center</span>: Educates, empowers and employs people with disabilities<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Access To Places</span>: Provides innovative solutions to access barriers.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Achilles International</span>: Transforms the lives of people with disabilities through athletic programs and social connection.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Adaptive Climbing Group</span>: Creates accessible and affordable climbing opportunities for people with disabilities.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>AHRC NYC (NYSARC)</span>: Advocates for people with intellectual, developmental, and other disabilities to lead full and equitable lives.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Alice Austen House</span>: A significant site of LGBTQ history and home of one of America's earliest and most prolific female photographers.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>American Association of People with Disabilities</span>: A national disability-led and cross-disability rights organization working to increase the political and economic power of people with disabilities.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>American Museum of Natural History</span>: One of the world\u2019s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library</span>: Provides free and accessible reading materials to patrons who are blind, low vision, or print disabled. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>APS Advisory Committee</span>: Provide an avenue for the Class to provide input and feedback on DOT's APS program, with a goal of continued outreach and collaboration between blind and low vision pedestrians and Department of Transportation.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Bronx Independent Living Services</span>: An Independent Living Center that helps the disabled in the community.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Brooklyn Botanic Garden</span>: An urban botanic garden that connects people to the world of plants, fostering delight and curiosity while inspiring an appreciation and sense of stewardship of the environment.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Brooklyn Museum</span>: A large art museum with a wide range of objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, representing almost every culture in the world, offering online and in-person verbal description tours, both public and private.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>C TECH</span>: Provides products for the Blind & Visually Impaired. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Choice Magazine Listening</span>: Publishes a quarterly collection of the best writing from magazines and literary journals. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum</span>: The only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary design, and the steward of one of the most diverse and comprehensive design collections in existence.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>The Dented Puck Foundation</span>: Supports and grows blind hockey throughout the USA. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Dimensions Lab for Tactile Creation</span>: Provides accessible technology and guidance via workshops and resources on 3-D printing and drawing, tactile design, embossing tactile images, using computer-aided design software, and more\u2014all free.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>DOROT</span>: Provides entirely no-cost programs and services to older adults including a blind and low vision support group over the phone.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>FMDG Music School</span>: Empowers individuals of all ages to pursue their interest and study of music, while addressing the challenges posed by vision loss. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>GHO</span>: Works with people with special needs and helps support them in the community.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Google</span>: A multinational corporation and technology company.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Greater New York Council of the Blind</span>: A self-help organization that advocates for equality of people who are blind and visually impaired, and connects us to education, resources, and each other to support our quality of life and independence.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Helen Keller National Center</span>: Provides comprehensive vocational and vision rehabilitation services to youth, working-age adults and seniors with combined vision and hearing loss. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Helen Keller Services for the Blind</span>: Provides vocational rehabilitation services to visually impaired individuals. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>iHOPE/YAI</span>: A highly specialized private school focused on educating students, ages 5-21, with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and multiple disabilities.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Inclusive Services at Brooklyn Public Library</span>: Provides library services and programs for Brooklyn children and teens with disabilities.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Insight Beyond Eyesight</span>: Provides support and resources to blind people and their families in the Jewish community and beyond. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>InTandem Cycling, Inc.</span>: Provides tandem cycling programs to people who are blind, have low vision, or cannot ride independently due to other disabilities.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Intertwine Arts</span>: Inspires creativity, joy, and self-confidence through free-form weaving for people of all ages with disabilities or chronic illness.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Intrepid Museum</span>: A private, nonprofit educational institution showcasing the legendary aircraft carrier Intrepid, the space shuttle Enterprise, the world's fastest jets, and a nuclear-weapons carrying submarine, through bold and immersive collections, exhibitions and programming in order to honor our heroes, educate the public and inspire future generations.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>JBI Library</span>: Connecting anyone who is blind, has low vision, physical disabilities or reading disabilities to Jewish life through audio, large print and braille recreational reading and liturgical texts, custom projects, Judaism 101 programs, and more.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>JCC Brooklyn / Kings Bay YM-YWHA</span>: Vibrant community centers dedicated to enriching the lives of children, families, and seniors through inclusive programs, cultural experiences, and social services across Brooklyn.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Lighthouse Guild</span>: Provides services that inspire people who are visually impaired to attain their goals. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities</span>: Liaison between New York City government and the disability community ensuring City initiatives, programs and policies address the needs and interests of people with disabilities. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Metropolitan Museum of Art</span>: Presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Mountain Lakes Public Library Makerspace</span>: Develops universal designed products with large text, Braille, and tactile elements.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>MTA</span>: Safe, reliable, accessible, and fast transportation<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Multisensory Impairment in Visual Impairment Laboratory (MIVI Lab), SUNY College of Optometry</span>: A highly collaborative research lab located in the State University of New York College of Optometry in New York City interested in studying how people with visual impairment interact with their environment and perform daily activities. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>The National Federation of the Blind</span>: Helps blind individuals live the life they want by providing advocacy and education. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>The New York DeafBlind Collaborative</span>: A federally funded project under the Office of Special Education Programs that provides technical assistance to families of children birth to 22 years of age with combined vision and hearing loss who reside in NYS.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>New York Institute of Special Education</span>: A private, nonprofit, nonsectarian educational facility that provides quality programs for blind or low vision children and preschoolers with developmental delays. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>New York State Commission for the Blind</span>: A state vocational rehabilitation agency for Blind New Yorkers. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>New York Transit Museum</span>: Located in a decommissioned subway station and tells the story of New York City's transit system through hands-on exploration in an authentic space. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>The Noguchi Museum</span>: Advances the understanding and appreciation of Isamu Noguchi\u2019s art and legacy.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>NYC Commission on Human Rights</span>: The city government agency that enforces the Human Rights Law throughout the five boroughs -- combating bias and discrimination at home, in the workplace, and in public spaces.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>NYC DOHMH - Bureau of Early Intervention</span>: Provides services for children under 3 years old who have any developmental delays or disabilities. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>NYC DOHMH - Healthy Homes</span>: Improves and promotes the health and well being of the people of New York.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>NYC DOHMH - Poison Center</span>: An emergency telephone hotline staffed by registered pharmacists and nurses who are certified in poison information to respond to both intentional and unintentional exposures by providing callers information on patient treatment, poison prevention and educational programs.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>NYC Department for the Aging</span>: Provides programs and services to older New Yorkers and their Caregivers.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>NYC DOHMH - Tuberculosis Control</span>: Aims to prevent the spread of tuberculosis (TB) and eliminate it as a public health problem in NYC. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>NYC DOT Mobility Management</span>: Improves mobility for underserved groups, such as people with disabilities, older adults, LEP populations, and low-income communities.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>NYC Emergency Management</span>: Helps New Yorkers before, during, and after emergencies through education, preparedness, and response.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library</span>: A hub for educational and cultural programs in New York City.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>NYPL Tech Connect</span>: Offers more than 100 technology classes, both online and in-person, at libraries throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island\u2014all absolutely free. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>NYU Ability Project</span>: An interdisciplinary research space dedicated to the intersection of disability and technology. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>One Heart One Vision Inc.</span>: Provides assistance of blind women from underserved communities.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Orbit Research</span>: Develops and manufactures innovative, accessible technology solutions that empower individuals who are blind or visually impaired to learn, work, and communicate independently.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Parent to Parent NYS</span>: Provides resources, guidance, and support to families of individuals with special needs. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Peloton Interactive</span>: A connected-fitness company with a Talkback screen-reader that makes the workout experience more accessible.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Poster House</span>: The only museum in the United States dedicated to the impact, design, and exhibition of posters.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (GSLIS)</span>: Provides affordable programs and rigorous teaching to educate critically minded, community-focused, and service-oriented professionals, offering several degree and certificate programs to prepare for employment and service in a diverse, global, and rapidly changing information society. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>ReelAbilities</span>: The leading independent nonprofit and the premiere global exhibitor of disability-focused cinema, challenging stereotypes, celebrating authentic disability representation in movies, and expanding opportunities for disabled creators worldwide.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Safman Consulting</span>: Draws from life experience as a DeafBlind Black man to help businesses and governments implement effective programs and policies for disabled individuals, such as Accessible websites, documents, inclusive events, voting GOTV, education (IEP), employment (interactive process and accommodations), emergency planning, transportation, and health care. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>See3D, Inc.</span>: Leads a collaborative, volunteer, community initiative to design, print and distribute free 3D printed models for blind people globally. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Touch Graphics Inc.</span>: Creates exhibits, signs, maps and classroom aids that communicate spatial information through the sense of touch.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>VISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired</span>: A 99-year-old not-for-profit providing services to individuals who are blind or have low vision, throughout the five boroughs of NYC, Long Island and the Lower Hudson Valley.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Xavier Society for the Blind</span>: Providing free braille, large print, and Talking Books of a spiritual and inspirational nature since 1900.<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=field-item style='margin:1rem'><span style='color:black'>Make sure to mark your calendar and share this event with others in your community!</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id=ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div id=ms-outlook-mobile-signature><div><p class=MsoNormal>Any errors brought to you by iPhone! <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Chancey Fleet<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Assistive Tech Coordinator \u2014 Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Call or text: 347-632-8383 <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Technology Programs at Andrew Heiskell Braille & Talking Book Library" group.<br>To unsubscribe from this group 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