[Nfb-hi] FW: Ho`opono

Tue Jan 24 01:54:31 UTC 2017

From: Abe, Gavan [mailto:GAbe at dhs.hawaii.gov] 
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 7:50 PM
Subject: FW: Ho`opono

Brett Oppegaard, a professor at UH Manoa Center on Disability Studies, is working with the National Park Services on improving audio description in its parks.  He is looking for blind and visually impaired individuals who can assist him with feedback on the proposed described brochures.  

If you are interested, please contact Brett at the information below…Thanks!

Brett Oppegaard, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Communications / College of  Social Sciences
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2550 Campus Road, Crawford Hall 330
Honolulu, HI 96822-2217
brett.oppegaard at hawaii.edu <mailto:brett.oppegaard at hawaii.edu>  / @brettoppegaard
808-956-3340 <tel:(808)%20956-3340>  / 360-521-8150 <tel:(360)%20521-8150>  (c)

From: brett.oppegaard at gmail.com <mailto:brett.oppegaard at gmail.com>  [mailto:brett.oppegaard at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Brett Oppegaard
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 2:02 PM
To: Abe, Gavan <GAbe at dhs.hawaii.gov <mailto:GAbe at dhs.hawaii.gov> >
Subject: Re: Ho`opono

Gavan, 

Thanks again for talking with me today. In recap, I'm the principal investigator of a federally funded grant project at the University of Hawaii focused upon improving audio description nationwide. I lead a research team that includes Megan and Tom Conway from the UH Center on Disability Studies, whom you might be familiar with already. I also am collaborating directly with Michele Hartley, the accessibility coordinator for the National Park Service in Harpers Ferry Center, W.V., and other researchers across the country.

In summary, we have been working for the past two years to develop web tools and best practices for better audio description, specifically for the translation of NPS brochures, at such parks as Yellowstone, Washington Monument, Everglades, Pu'ukohola Heiau and Hawaii Volcanoes. 

The project website – with all of the background on this research and live audio description tools – is here: http://www.unidescription.org/.

For more information about us, please refer to the site's about page: http://www.unidescription.org/about.

The primary reason I called is that we have reached the stage of this project where we want to expand outreach to the entire Hawaii community of blind and visually impaired people, giving everyone a chance to try these new audio brochures (at no cost). We thought you might be able to help us get in contact with the other organizations in the community who serve this particular audience.

I'm hopeful we can work together on this project. I would be happy to come to your office and introduce myself (and the research team) and present our work to you, your staff, or any other organizational leader who might be interested. Please feel free to share this email broadly. My email and cell phone also are below. I'll check back with you early next week to follow-up on this conversation. Thanks again for your interest and support! 

Best wishes, 

~ Brett 

______________________________________________

Brett Oppegaard, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Communications / College of  Social Sciences
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2550 Campus Road, Crawford Hall 330
Honolulu, HI 96822-2217
brett.oppegaard at hawaii.edu <mailto:brett.oppegaard at hawaii.edu>  / @brettoppegaard
808-956-3340 <tel:(808)%20956-3340>  / 360-521-8150 <tel:(360)%20521-8150>  (c)

Best wishes, 

~ Brett 

______________________________________________

Brett Oppegaard, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Communications / College of  Social Sciences
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2550 Campus Road, Crawford Hall 330
Honolulu, HI 96822-2217
brett.oppegaard at hawaii.edu <mailto:brett.oppegaard at hawaii.edu>  / @brettoppegaard
808-956-3340 / 360-521-8150 (c)

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Abe, Gavan <GAbe at dhs.hawaii.gov <mailto:GAbe at dhs.hawaii.gov> > wrote:

Gavan Abe

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