[Fwd: AFB and WGBH Seek Assistance on STEM Description Project]

[Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@Sun.COM>]

Greetings ODF Accessibility crew,

You might be interested in the attached announcement of a joint 
AFB-WGBH/NCAM project to undertake end-user evaluation of the best 
practices for describing STEM images for digital talking books.  As we 
look at ways of making presentations accessible (thanks to the work led 
by our colleagues in IBM research in Japan), the work and results of 
this project may prove helpful.  To the extent that we can find ways to 
automate or assist authors in the process of describing charts and 
diagrams and flow-charts, etc., we can make presentations more 
accessible to the blind.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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• From: Mary Watkins <mary_watkins@wgbh.org>
• To: dvsconsumers <dvsconsumers@mail4.wgbh.org>
• Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:24:50 -0400

See below for an opportunity to participate in a joint project from the American Foundation for the Blind and WGBH's Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM).

The American Foundation for the Blind seeks blind professionals and students in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields to take part in an end user evaluation of best practices for describing STEM images (charts, diagrams, tables, flow charts, etc.) in digital talking books that were developed by WGBH in Boston and its National Center on Accessible Media (NCAM). Participants will be reimbursed for their time. To learn more about the study and to register, please visit http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?DocumentID=3778.

Thank you!

Mary
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Mary Watkins
Director of Communications and Outreach
Media Access Group at WGBH
mary_watkins@wgbh.org
http://access.wgbh.org
One Guest Street
Boston, MA  02135
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617 300-2489 TTY

WGBH Boston informs, inspires, and entertains millions through public broadcasting, the Web, educational multimedia, and access services for people with disabilities.

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