Please come to the Universal Accessibility Meet-up, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, June 28th, 8am to 10am.
If you cannot make it in person the meeting will be broadcast in audio and text chat using the OPAL conferencing system.
The audio part of the meeting will be captioned using a remote CART captioning service.
Links and information to join the online auditorium and to access the remote CART transcription are below.
The topic of the meeting is accessibility issues in the academic environment. Librarians from the ALA conference who are interested in AT and accessibility will be showing up as well as people from the local university disability support services offices and public libraries. There will be an opportunity to informally network and demo in the AT lab afterwards.
This joint discussion forum for academic library disability service topics will include discussion of the following topics:
· web accessibility
· assistive technology
· networking assistive technology,
· reference and instruction for users with disabilities, and
· captioning
To sign on to the online meeting:
1. If you have not yet installed the Conferencing Plugin, Click Here and select Run to install the plugin.<http://conference321.com/masteradmin/webconferenceplugin.exe>
2. Click this link to join the conference and enter your name when asked.<tc5://?password=&room=rs77823d8bb8fc&username=&other=74.208.96.53&br=0&rt=&rl=&nopass=1>
3. You can access the both links here
http://74.208.96.53/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs77823d8bb8fc
Username: use your “firstname.lastname” as a username
Password: you do not need a password so leave the password field blank
To open the captioning window click:
http://www.2020captioning.com/livefeed.php?event=remotecustomer
or (as a backup),
http://streamtext.net/text.aspx?event=remotecustomer
Date: June 28th
Time: 8am to 10am US/Eastern
Meeting Room: http://74.208.96.53/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs77823d8bb8fc
Meeting Room Login \ Username: “use your firstname.lastname”
Meeting Password:
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To join this meeting:
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1. If you have not yet installed the Conferencing Plugin, Click Here and select Run to install the plugin.<http://conference321.com/masteradmin/webconferenceplugin.exe>
2. Click this link to join the conference and enter your name when asked.<tc5://?password=&room=rs77823d8bb8fc&username=&other=74.208.96.53&br=0&rt=&rl=&nopass=1>
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For assistance
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1. Go to http://talkingcommunities.com
2. On the top navigation bar, click Support.
You can contact me at:
[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
To add this meeting to your calendar program (for example Microsoft Outlook or Vista), click this link:
http://74.208.79.227/calendar/invitations/c4ca1d2375a14861b72abfda3437bad0.ics
this is a tip for tiling the online meeting and captioning windows.
If you are going to be participating remotely and using the Captioning window, the instructions are as follows:
1. Open the captioning window: http://www.2020captioning.com/livefeed.php?event=remotecustomer
2. Open the online meeting window: http://74.208.96.53/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs77823d8bb8fc
3. Click the “Restore Down” button at the top right of both browsers, the online meeting browser and the captioning browser, so that you can stretch the windows to make them all viewable at the same time on the computer screen.
4. You can also use the “Switch to smart/normal mode” in the “Actions” menu on the online meeting browser to separate out all of the windows.
Patrick
The meeting is sponsored by:
DC Public Library Adaptive Services Division
LITA Accessibility Interest Group
ACRL Universal Accessibility Interest Group
ASCLA Academic Libraries Accessibility and Disability Discussion Group (ALAD)
Monday
June 28, 2010
8am-10am
Room 215
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G Street NW, Washington DC 20001
People with expertise in web development, high level adaptive technology users, and academic and public library adaptive technology professionals from AccessibilityDC Meetup and the Adaptive Services Interest Group are all welcome to share information with librarians who are newer to these issues. Although the focus is on academic libraries, public librarians and other librarians are welcome to attend and share their accessibility-related expertise and experience.
Directions:
The meeting will be in the second floor east lobby and Adaptive Services
Division, room 215. Both locations are on the second floor of the Martin
Luther King Jr. Memorial Library at 901 G Street NW, Washington DC 20001.
The library is at 9th and G streets, across the street from the 9th street
exit of the Gallery Place Chinatown Metro. The 11th street exit of Metro
Center is also just a block and a half away. There is no public parking in
the basement of the library. Once in the library, from the front door, you
would walk to the back of the great hall and take either of the two
elevators, which are located at the North West and North East corners of the
great hall, up to the second floor. The second floor east lobby is on the
east side of the building in between the Arts, History and Biography division
and the Young Adult Division. The Adaptive Services Division room 215 is
along the north side of the second floor.
For more info contact:
Patrick
James Patrick Timony
Adaptive Technology Librarian
District of Columbia Public Library
Adaptive Services Division, Room 215
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G Street, NW, 20001
[log in to unmask]
202-727-1335
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Check out EASI New Synchronous Clinics:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
EASI Home Page http://www.rit.edu/~easi
Online courses and Clinics http://easi.cc/workshop.htm
Check the EASI Library Web http://www.rit.edu/~easi/lib.htm
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