[Web4lib] Audio Description of digital image workshops

[Lori Bell]

Alliance Library System is pleased to announce Audio Description of Digital Images workshops throughout Illinois this spring conducted by Tom Peters of TAP Information Services.
What is Audio Description? Audio Description (AD) 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 series of workshops will focus on uses of audio description by libraries with digital image collections, image-intensive websites, etc. 
Who Should Attend? Everyone is welcome to attend, especially representatives from organizations that have received (or are considering apply for) digital imaging grants from the Illinois State Library. 
Note: This is a Working Workshop! We will be creating and recording real audio descriptions during this workshop. You may take the audio description you create back to your library and integrate it into your library website, collection of digital images, etc. 
Please bring a photograph (the original -- only if it is safe and secure to do so -- or a copy, or a digital image) for which you want to have an audio description created that you can use. 
Schedule of In-Person and Online Workshops :

Joliet::  Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:00 to 4:00 Central at the Black Road Branch of the Joliet Public Library, 3395 Black Road 
Online via OPAL: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central in the OPAL Online Auditorium (www.opal-online.org) 
East Peoria :  Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central at the Alliance Library System offices, 600 High Point Lane 
Springfield: Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central at the Lincoln Library, the Public Library of Springfield, 326 South 7 th Street 
Champaign : Tuesday, April 7, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central at the Lincoln Trail Libraries System offices, 1704 West Interstate Drive 
Chicago: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 from 9:30 to 12:30 Central at the Chicago office of the Metropolitan Library System, 224 S. Michigan Ave. 
Online via OPAL: Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central in the OPAL Online Auditorium (www.opal-online.org) 
Registration is Free, Online, and Easy: http://tinyurl.com/3cfvc2
Workshop Handouts: Click here to get the latest handout for the above mentioned Audio Description Workshops. This 7 page MS Word document is the most current copy.
Project website:  http://www.alsaudioillinois.net/
For more information:  Contact Tom Peters, Project Coordinator, tpeters at tapinformation.com,