[Md-sligo] FW: Saturday Session Sept 18, 1pm-4pm, MLK Library iPod, iPad, DAMAN project

[Brown, Debbie]

From: James (DCPL) Timony [mailto:James.Timony at dc.gov]
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 12:34 PM
To: Brown, Debbie
Subject: Saturday Session Sept 18, 1pm-4pm, MLK Library iPod, iPad, DAMAN project

Tomorrow's Saturday Session on September 18th from 1pm to 4pm in room 215, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street NW, will feature two presentations:


 1.  iPhone and iPad and
 2.  Disability Awareness.

The iPhone/iPad demonstration and discussion will feature Mark Reumann who is a section 508 consultant at the Patent Office and Bob Bosken who is an employee of the Social Security Adminstration and also a section 508 consultant.  Together with other guests they will demonstrate the iPhone and iPad using the voiceover screen reader.  They will demonstrate the different kinds of gestures possible on these touch screen interfaces and a variety of applications including calendar, email and voicemail.  iPad demonstrations will also include the screen magnifier Zoom, and several applications that are targeted at other groups of users including those with learning disabilities.

Daman Wandke is a senior at Western Washington State University, and an employee of the US Department of Agriculture, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and a nonprofit called Students for Disabilities Awareness which he cofounded.  He was born with Cerebral Palsy and is a disability advocate with a strong interest in IT and web accessibility.  The DAMAN project (Disability Awareness Moves Across the Nation) started as a highschool awareness event that provided simulated disability experience for members of the Bellingham Washington high school community, and has grown into a platform for Daman's powerful disability awareness message of leadership and self-advocacy.

We hope you can make it.  Directions are below.


Chris Corrigan, library associate and volunteer coordinator in the Adaptive Services Division has created a blog of tutorials on Adaptive Technologies http://atthdc.blogspotcom<http://atthdc.blogspot.com/> , and worked with summer interns Sterling Henry and Miriam Brinley to create a collaborative space on PBwiki with tutorials and space for community discussion.  That link will be forwarded soon.

Accessibility Camp DC is an informal conference on Web Accessibility that is held at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on a yearly basis.  This year the conference will happen Saturday October 9, 2010 from 9:30pm to 5:30pm in the 2nd floor east and west lobbies and room 215 Adaptive Services at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library at 901 G Street NW.  You can register for, sponsor or find more details about the event here: http://bit.ly/bWjyAu

The related monthly meet-up WebAccessibilityDC occurs regularly on the third Tuesday of the month from 6pm to 9pm in room 215, Adaptive Services at the MLK library and the September 21st topic will be audio description.  Follow http://twitter.com/accessibilitydc for updates about the monthly WebAccessibility meet-up.  Follow http://www.twitter.com/AccessCampDC for updates about the annual AccessibilityCamp

Our new collaborative webspace is at https://sttsdc.pbworks.com<https://sttsdc.pbworks.com/> (Saturday Technology Training Session DC wiki), and is a place to post links from the Saturday Sessions and to share information about Adaptive Technology.  The STTSDC wiki has a calendar that could serve as collaboratively-administrated general events calendar for Adaptive Technology-related events in the Washington DC area.   To request access, click the above link, click "request access", enter your email address, complete the captcha, and click "send to administrator".


We are located diagonally across the street from the 9th street exit of the Gallery Place Chinatown Metro stop, or two blocks from the 11th and G exit of Metro Center.   There is no public parking at the MLK Library.



The meetings are a chance for people who use Adaptive Technologies to get together and share information, learn about Technologies like the JAWS ScreenReader and MAGic ScreenMagnifier which make the computer accessible to people who are blind or have low vision, and hear demonstrations of new Adaptive Technologies and Services. Some examples of demonstrations from past sessions include accessible cell phones, Dancing Dots Music software, PeaPod online grocery ordering service, and Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind.

The Adaptive Technology Program provides adaptive technology workstations for people who need them in order to access the library's programs and services.  The workstations are located in the Adaptive Services Division, Room 215 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.  Customers can call ahead and reserve two-hour sessions at either the computer workstations or at the CCTVs.  Introductory training on Adaptive Technologies is available through orientation sessions and regular weekly meetings with Volunteer Trainers.



Check out our Blog at http://sttsdc.blogspot.com/


Patrick



James Patrick Timony

Adaptive Technology Librarian

District of Columbia Public Library

Adaptive Services Division, Room 215

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

901 G Street, NW, 20001

patrick.timony at dc.gov

202-727-1335

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