[stylist] Experiencing the ECLIPSE

[Kendra Schaber]

Hi all! 
I have the ACB radio and the soundscapes app. Unfortunently, there isn't an Android vertion of the eclipse soundscapes app. They only have an IOS vertion of this app so far. I'm an iphone user myself but I have a friend who recently got an Android who would love this app if she could get it. I hope for her sake that they do come out with an Android vertion for all who are blind and have Android phones. I'm also glad that the IOS crowd like myself has it!!! I wish they came out for both crowds could get it on the same day. 


 
Blessed be!!! 
Kendra Schaber 
National Federation of the Blind 
"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear" Author Unknown 
  
 Sent From My GMail EMail account On My IPhone SE. Typed to you with my Keys To Go blue tooth Keyboard, the only keyboard I know to work with an IPhone SE. 

> On Aug 18, 2017, at 07:47, Robert Leslie Newman via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Maybe you all have seen these:
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> (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.
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> (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/.
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> (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.
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> 
> Happy listening.
> 
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