[Web4lib] Announcement: Free Online and In-Person Audio Description Workshops

[Tom Peters]

Greetings!

Beginning on Nov. 18th and running through April 30, 2009 there will be a series of seven audio description workshops.  

Audio Description is a method for making digital images accessible and enjoyable to blind and low-vision users.

The workshops are part of the Audio Description Illinois project managed by the Alliance Library System with LSTA funding administered by the Illinois State Library, Jesse White, Secretary of State and State Librarian.

All the workshops are free and open to everyone.  Two will be held online via OPAL, and five will be held in-person at various locations throughout Illinois.

Below are dates, times, and details about the two OPAL online workshops.

For more information about all seven workshops, please visit the following webpage:
http://www.opal-online.org/audiodescriptionflyer.htm

Registration is free, easy, and online at the following webpage:
http://tinyurl.com/3cfvc2

For more information about all upcoming free, online events from the OPAL collaborative, please visit the following webpage:
http://www.opal-online.org/progschrono.htm

If you are a first-time user of OPAL, some information and tips are available at the following webpage:
http://www.opal-online.org/firsttimetips.htm

We plan to record, archive, and podcast at least one of these workshops.  

Please feel free to forward this announcement.  Thanks!



	* Wednesday, February 11, 2009 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 7:00 p.m. GMT:

Audio Description Workshop: Helping Blind and Low-Vision Users Enjoy Digital Images 

Host: Alliance Library System 

Online Location: OPAL Online Auditorium 


Audio Description is a narrative technique that makes visual images more accessible to blind and low-vision people by producing audible written descriptions of non-verbal visual information, such as digital photographs, television programs, motion pictures, and live events. This workshop will focus on uses of audio description by libraries with digital image collections, image-intensive websites, etc. 

Please Note: This workshop will last approximately 2.5 hours. It will be a "working workshop" in the sense that we will be writing and recording actual audio descriptions. Please provide a digital image for which you would like to create an audio description during this workshop. 

This workshop is free and open to all, but we do ask that your register at http://tinyurl.com/3cfvc2 

Also Note: Five in-person Audio Description workshops also are planned from Nov. 2008 through April 2009 at five locations around the state of Illinois: Joliet, East Peoria, Springfield, Champaign, and Chicago. If you would like more information about these in-person workshops, please visit the one-page flyer. 

This series of workshops is part of the Audio Description Illinoisproject managed by the Alliance Library System, and is made possible by an LSTA Grant administered by the Illinois State Library, Jesse White, Secretary of State and State Librarian.
	* Thursday, April 30, 2009 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 6:00 p.m. GMT:

Audio Description Workshop: Helping Blind and Low-Vision Users Enjoy Digital Images 

Host: Alliance Library System 

Online Location: OPAL Online Auditorium 
 
Tom Peters 

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