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<div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Join us </span><strong style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Saturday, October 21–Sunday, October 22</strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> at
the </span><a href="https://www.nypl.org/locations/heiskell" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;">Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> for The New York Public
Library’s first Accessible Technology Conference—a free and inclusive conference focused on the impact, affordances, and evolution of accessible technologies used by Blind, low-vision, and print-disabled people. </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekAQBwfgLqN2tbCnCRNCbBItdOkDY8v5zFqReO0dwrfLdZWQ/viewform" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;">Register
here</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. </span>Run by the staff of the Andrew Heiskell Library, this 2-day event will be held at the SNFL Library on 5th avenue and 40th street.<br>
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<p style="box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">The free conference is open to all community members and is free to presenters and participants alike. Our conference team commits to a fully accessible conference, including providing accessible
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<p style="box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Register for the free conference and request needed accommodations using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekAQBwfgLqN2tbCnCRNCbBItdOkDY8v5zFqReO0dwrfLdZWQ/viewform" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;">this
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Sunday October 22 from 10 AM–4:20 PM, with a lunch break.</font></li></ul>
<p style="box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">You may also want to join us on Friday, October 20 for the grand return of
our Accessible Community, Culture, and Technology Fair and Entrepreneur day</strong>. <a href="https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2023/10/20/accessible-community-culture-and-technology-fair" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;">Learn
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">3D Printing Clubs at Schools for the Blind: What Has Worked and How We Are Collaborating to Create Solutions</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Accessible Art Using Visual Descriptions</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Accessible Co-Design Methods for Tactile Graphic Creation</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">APH’s Accessible Road to Code!</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Cadence: a modular improvement toward STEM access for the blind</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Creating a More Affordable and Repairable Braille Display</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Discussion of Best Practices in Culturally Competent Audio Describer Training</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Get to Know Makers Making Change and the Open AT Movement</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">How AI is Transforming Accessibility</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">iCanConnect Lightning Talk</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Intro to Popular Generative AI Tools: Opportunities and Challenges for Accessibility</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Introducing SALS: Helping Students Get and Stay Involved in STEM</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Locking down your cyber security: four valuable keys to enhance digital security for the blind and visually impaired</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Oplay: soft tactile music interface</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Robots, Coding, and the Braillenote Touch +</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Soundscape: travel awareness for all</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Success Tech Stories of DeafBlind</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Tactile Graphic Fabrication with Digital Embroidery</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Tactile Robotics to Support Creative Making</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Tech in the DeafBlind World</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">The Making of TMAP: A case study in building cool things you know nothing about</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px; box-sizing:inherit; border-width:0px; border-style:solid">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Twelve Ways to Enter Text on an iPhone</font></li></ul>
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