Contact: Mary Watkins, Media Access Group at WGBH
617 300-3700, [log in to unmask]
WGBH National Center for Accessible Media Takes to the Road in November
Boston, MA. October 30, 2002. Staff from WGBH's National Center for
Accessible Media (NCAM), the research and development division of the Media
Access Group at WGBH/Boston, will present on accessible technology
development and collaborations with academic institutions and industry
partners at several conferences in November. NCAM focuses on creating
access to all forms of media for those who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind
or visually impaired. Accessible technology solutions often better serve
those members of the community without disabilities.
November 6-8
5th Annual Accessing Higher Ground Conference
University of Colorado/Boulder
NCAM director Larry Goldberg and project managers Geoff Freed and Andrew
Kirkpatrick will be hosting sessions of an NCAM Mini Institute— Assistive
Technology and Accessible Media in Higher Education— at the Accessing Higher
Ground Conference. NCAM's relevant projects will be presented as well as a
half-day hands-on session on MAGpie software, free, do-it-yourself
captioning and description software for digital media. Additional sessions
of the mini institute will be presented by CAST, Macromedia and
Bookshare/Benetech.
For more information on the conference, visit
http://www.Colorado.EDU/sacs/ATconference/
November 9
Frontiers in Education 2002 "Leading a Revolution in Engineering and
Computer Science Education"
Boston, MA
NCAM's director of Research and Development, Madeleine Rothberg, will
present on Engineering Education for Inclusive Design as part of a panel on
diversity in engineering education. She will present a case study under
development, in collaboration with Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and
Education Development Centers Inc., that presents inclusive design
principles through the example of the creation of accessible talking ATMs.
For more information, visit http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2002/
November 17-20
The League for Innovation's Annual Conference on Information Technology
Long Beach, California
Presentations from NCAM project manager Geoff Freed on Access to Distance
Learning projects underway at NCAM, including collaborations with the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the IMS Global Learning
Consortium.
For more information, visit http://www.league.org/2002cit/
November 18-21
Web Design World 2002
Boston, Massachusetts
NCAM project manager Andrew Kirkpatrick will be offering the conference
keynote: "Why Accessibility Matters," as well as two presentations, one on
Flash accessibility with Peter Pinch, the director of Interactive Content
for WGBH Interactive, and another on accessibility improvements in
Dreamweaver MX. Finally, Andrew will be sitting on the Thunder Lizard panel
of experts for the session "Are You Accessible?"
For more information, visit http://www.webdesignworld.com/boston.
The Media Access Group at WGBH is a non-profit service with offices in
Boston, Los Angeles and New York. The Group includes Descriptive Video
Service (DVS®), which has made television, film and video more enjoyable to
audiences who are blind or visually impaired since 1990, and The Caption
Center — the world's first captioning agency — which has made audiovisual
media accessible to audiences who are deaf or hard-of-hearing since 1972.
The third branch of the Media Access Group, the CPB/WGBH National Center for
Accessible Media (NCAM), is a research, development and advocacy entity that
works to make existing and emerging technologies accessible to all
audiences. The Media Access Group's staff contains the leading experts in
their fields. For more information about access services, visit the Media
Access Group Web site http://access.wgbh.org or call 617 300-3600 (voice and
TTY).
WGBH Boston is America's preeminent public broadcasting producer, the source
of nearly one-third of PBS's prime-time lineup and companion online content
as well as many public radio favorites. WGBH is a pioneer in educational
multimedia (including the Web, broadband, and interactive television) and in
technologies and services that make media accessible for people with
disabilities. WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors: Emmys,
Peabodys, duPont-Columbia Awards…even two Oscars. In 2002, WGBH was honored
with a special institutional Peabody Award for 50 years of excellence. For
more information visit www.wgbh.org.
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