[Md-sligo] FW: DC Library programs on Apple for beginners and developing online

[Brown, Debbie]

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To: Brown, Debbie
Subject: DC Library programs on Apple for beginners and developing online 

Two interesting tech opportunities at Martin Luther King coming up, Nov. 1 for people interested in Apple phones, iPads,Ipods etc, and the second for those interested in developing online tools that will benefit people with disabilities.  Any questions about either program, and to get on their mailing list-- go to Patrick Timony at: patrick.timony at dc.gov 
 
Francie Gilman
Librarian
Disability Resource Center
Rockville Library
21 Maryland Ave., Suite 100
Rockville, MD 20850
Voice 240-777-0959
TTY 240-777-0902

1. APPLE on NOV. 1

November 1st Tech Talk Tuesday will be an introduction to iOs accessibility for beginning level users. Come learn how to use the iPhone, iTouch or iPad's VoiceOver ScreenReader or Zoom Magnification, 6pm to 8pm in room 215, Adaptive Services at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.

 
2. Announcing the Library Tech project during DCWEEK starting Nov. 5

 

DC WEEK is a week-long festival in the US capital focused on bringing together designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and social innovators of all kinds.

 

The Library Tech project is a series of events at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library that will bring together developers and users from the accessibility community with the goal of producing tools that meet the needs of the community.

 

If you have ideas for tools that could be built as part of this project, please reply to 

patrick.timony at dc.gov

or bring your ideas to the Nov 5th Problem Identification Workshop.

 

Examples of tools that have been built at similar projects or have been suggested for this one are:

 

An e-reading software for Bookshare books

A social network for using the FaceTime videophone app for remote audio description

A captioning tool that uses Dragon Naturally Speaking

A system that helps broaden the networks of Twitter users in the accessibility community

 

This project will involve four events on Nov 5th, 8th and 12th:

 

Saturday Nov 5th, 1pm to 3pm - Accessible App Demo

Saturday Nov 5th, 3pm to 5pm - Problem Identification Workshop

Monday Nov 7th, 6pm to 9pm - Accessibility Hackathon Preparation Session

Saturday Nov 12th, 10am to 5:30pm - Accessibility Hackathon

 

Details on the individual events follow:

 

Saturday Nov 5th, 1pm to 5pm, Room 215, Adaptive Services, MLK Library

Accessible App Demo and Problem Identification Workshop

Presentors: Mark Reumann - Patent Office, Zuhair Mahmoud - Library of Congress, Don Barrett - Dept of Education

>From 1pm to 3pm, these presenters will demo and discuss Accessible Apps, like MoneyReader, Color Identifier and VisWiz, to a community of users who use screenreaders to access their mobile devices.

>From 3pm to 5pm developers and project managers are invited to participate in a Problem Identification Workshop, to get requirements and problems out of this user community. This will be an opportunity to put heads together to come up with tools can be built at a Hackathon that will be held the next Saturday.

 

Monday, November 7, 2011 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm, Room 215, Adaptive Services, MLK Library

Accessibility Hackathon Preparation Session

Speaker: Gerardo Capiel, Bookshare

Gerardo Capiel from Bookshare will talk from his experience with similar events, on how to choose projects, what lessons they have learned, and how to set up the development environment on a laptop for a hackathon.

He will speak about some related technologies like the Bookshare API:

http://developer.bookshare.org <http://developer.bookshare.org/> 

and the new Google Chrome TTS APIs: 

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-text-to-speech-api-for-chrome.html?showComment=1319148125417#c3671817693482193507

 

Saturday, November 12, 2011 - 10:00am to 5:30pm, LibraryLab space, 1st Floor, MLK Library

Accessibility Hackathon

with support from Bookshare, Random Hacks of Kindness, LibraryLab and the Wikimedia Foundation

This Hackathon will be an opportunity for developers to get together and build tools that meet the needs of the user community. With the preparation of the Problem Identification Workshop on Saturday Nov 5th, the Hackathon Preparation Session on November 8th, and the help of organizations like Bookshare, Random Hacks of Kindness, LibraryLab, and the Wikimedia Foundation, we hope to be able to come up with a simple and completable ICT solution to one or more needs that are defined by the user community.

 

Contact 202-727-2142

Or email: patrick.timony at dc.gov

 

James Patrick Timony

Librarian, Adaptive Technology

DC Public Library

Adaptive Services Division, Room 215

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

901 G Street, NW

Washington DC, 20001

patrick.timony at dc.gov

202-727-1335

 

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