[accessibleimage] Re: pictures of hummingbird mother Lola and baby Fan-Fan

Hi members of the list:

I apreciated the very well done escription too.
In fact, this is one of the things we should be doing more frequently. Audio description of pictures, ilustrations in general, senery and so on, not forgetting transparencies, slides and so on in a classroom or a talk.
Once, I was at this conference on education for the blind, and the professor presenting used a bunch of slides. They were beautiful and very good example of how not use them with blind people. However, he did not notice it, during his long presentation. He ddid not offer any audio description of what he was showing.
Well, what was his topic about? Accessibility.
After his presentation, I was the only blind professor at the meeting, I mentioned the problem, and his answer was that I should have told him I was blind, at the beginning of his talk.
Well, one should be aware of accessibility issues all the time, and not expect that the person with disability will be there, saying to everyone: "I have a disability."
If he or she does not want to say so, he or she still have the right of having the presentation accessible.
Hence, description like this can creat a habit in sighted persons, mainly in teachers.
Best,
Francisco Lima

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Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 4:23 AM
Subject: [accessibleimage] pictures of hummingbird mother Lola and baby Fan-Fan


Hi all,

One of my neighbors took some pictures of a hummingbird mom, nest, and baby,
located in a tree in our courtyard outside another neighbor family's place.
He made a web site so that everyone could look at them at their leisure. I
want to share it with you

I enjoy descriptions of things like this, which I can reconstruct in my
mind's eye. And, the naration my neighbor wrote is pretty good and
accessible with my screen reader. A friend also looked and described more to
me.

For those who might want the pictures larger, they can be enlarged on the
site.

My neighbor has talked about adding bird songs too.

I really love pictures like this. They make it possible for people with low
vision to see beautiful creatures fairly clearly. If you are interested, you
can find the pictures and narative at:

http://www.writely.com/View.aspx'docid=bbfhwngm4w9mg

Enjoy,

Sylvie







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