<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4ddf11f0-7fff-351f-a1e1-6db691864341"><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Behind the Lens: Conversations on Visual Interpreter Tech</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sunday January 27, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM: </span><a href="https://www.behindthelens1-27-19.eventbrite.com" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.Behindthelens1-27-19.eventbrite.com</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Monday January 28, 10:00 AM – 12:00 noon: </span><a href="https://www.behindthelens1-28-19.eventbrite.com" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.Behindthelens1-28-19.eventbrite.com</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How do visual interpreter platforms and equipment shape, extend and constrain our skills and opportunities as blind people? How do business practices and design choices affect us, and how can we affect them? How is visual interpreter tech introduced, taught and positioned in the context of blindness training? These informal discussion sessions are designed to help us have an open, thoughtful, sales-free conversation about what visual interpreter tech means in our community. Users, developers, workers and anyone else with an interest is welcome.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Trainers’ Division Open Office Hours</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sunday January 27, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Monday January 28, 12 noon - 2:00 PM</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Drop by to network, exchange teaching and learning tips, ask tech questions and talk about how our division can best support our collective work. </span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notes on Logistics</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">RSVPs for these sessions are optional but appreciated. Alternate arrangements can be made for folks who would like to chat with a trainer but have conflicting commitments. Please contact Chancey Fleet (President, NFB Assistive Technology Trainers’ Division; 2018-2019 Fellow, Data & Society Research Institute) at <a href="mailto:Chancey@datasociety.net">Chancey@datasociety.net</a> or 347-632-8383.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">These sessions will take place in the Senate Room at the Holiday Inn Capitol, 550 C Street Southwest, Washington, DC. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To find the Senate room, make your way the long concourse toward the Capitol Ballroom. After you descend a short flight of stairs or ramp, take an immediate right before the FEMA security station. Proceed down a short hallway to find Senate: it’s the first door on your right. </span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>