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A Training Event You do NOT want to Miss
Make Vision Happen—“Striving for a Barrier-Free Hawai‘i”

Able Eyes Presents—Audio Description: The Visual Made Verbal Making Visual Images Accessible to People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision


When: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, April 29, 2013 – Registration @ 8:00 am – 8:45 am
Where: Hawai‘i Convention Center
Cost: $15 fee includes a lunch voucher
Registration and details:  <http://www.pacrim.hawaii.edu/> www.pacrim.hawaii.edu
*This affordable price is made possible by the co-sponsorship of The Hawai‘i Association of the Blind and Hawaii Lions Foundation
About the Training
What It Is: A unique training event for cultural institutions, television producers, accessibility advocates and the general public. Co-sponsored by the Hawai‘i Lions Foundation, Hawai‘i Association of the Blind & The Center on Disability Studies.
At this half-day interactive, multi-media session, participants will experience how Audio Description (AD) makes visual images accessible for people who are blind or have low vision—the visual is made verbal. Using words that are succinct, vivid, and imaginative, describers convey the visual image that is not fully accessible to a significant segment of the population and not fully realized by the rest of us—people who see but who may not observe. AD is offered—in a wide range of human endeavor.
Through this hands-on workshop, participants will experience how it works and what it takes to use Audio Description to make programming more accessible to patrons who are blind or have low vision—and more enjoyable for all.
Don’t miss this opportunity to make it your vision too!
Educate: learn how to produce audio descriptive media with Joel Snyder. 
Enrich: lives by making your agency accessible for everyone to enjoy. Empower: the blind by bridging communities and encouraging others to do the same. Enterprise: increase your membership to include the thousands of sight-challenged consumers in Hawai‘i and break barriers that discourage participation and interaction. You can help by giving ‘inclusiveness for all’ the consideration it deserves.

 

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For more details and to register:
Please call 808 956-4350 or email  <mailto:prinvite at hawaii.edu> prinvite at hawaii.edufor more information. You may also contact the training event chairpersons: Fay Kiyabu at  <mailto:kiyabufay1 at gmail.com> kiyabufay1 at gmail.comand Sharon Ige at  <http://www.pacrim.hawaii.edu/emailtemplate/ableeyes/mailtosharonige003@hawaii.rr.com> sharonige003 at hawaii.rr.com, or visit our Web site:  <http://www.pacrim.hawaii.edu/> ww.pacrim.hawaii.edu.