[Nfb-seniors] Experiencing the Solar Eclipse

[Cindy Ray]

I have explored the app, and I'm looking forward to trying to use it.

Blind abilities has more information about it. I got that app from the app
store, too.
Cindy


-----Original Message-----
From: NFB-Seniors [mailto:nfb-seniors-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Milt
Taylor via NFB-Seniors
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 11:43 AM
To: NFB Senior Division list <nfb-seniors at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Milt Taylor <milt2533 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-seniors] Experiencing the Solar Eclipse

Thanks so very much for sending out this message. This looks to be a pretty
cool app.

Milt - Sent from my iPhone


> On Aug 18, 2017, at 8:44 AM, Robert Leslie Newman via NFB-Seniors
<nfb-seniors at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Here are some methods for getting in on the ECLIPES 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> (1) The Eclipse Soundscapes app for iOs devices is perhaps the most
> revolutionary, since this offers the user a chance to experience this
event
> through vibrational touch on the screen as well as through sound.  A
special
> app, available through iTunes, uses an interactive rumble map customized
to
> the viewer's location.  The Soundscapes app will geolocate you and start
the
> narration to align with the planetary movements as they occur from your
> local vantage point. The specialized imaging description techniques making
> this possible were developed by the National Center for Accessible Media
> (NCAM), a part of television station WGBH of Boston, Massachusetts. .
Other
> partners in the Eclipse Soundscapes project are the Smithsonian
> Astrophysical Observatory (H.E.C.) and the National Park Service.
Download
> the app from
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eclipse-soundscapes/id1262152991?mt=8.
> 
> I am not aware that this app is available for Android devices.
> 
> 
> 
> (2)  If you have a way to get to Facebook,  tune in Monday beginning
> 
> 12:00 PM EDT as the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and solar
> astrophysicist Henry "Trae" Winter put on a special, pre-eclipse live
event
> geared with the blind and visually impaired in mind.
> 
> Follow this project on Facebook at
> 
> https://www.facebook.com/EclipseSoundSAO/.
> 
> 
> 
> (3)  The ACB Radio Interactive Channel will be offering narration of the
> solar eclipse.  Go to http://www.acbradio.org/interactive.  The Audio
> Description Project, an initiative of the American Council of the Blind
> (ACB) along with the Mid-Tennessee Council of the Blind, the Tennessee
> School for the Blind, and the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, will host
> this audio description of the solar eclipse.
> 
> Between 2:00 PM and 3:00 PM EDT, Dr. Joel Snyder will host an event
titled,
> "A Total Eclipse - Audio Described," on ACB Radio Interactive.
> 
> 
> 
> Happy listening.
> 
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