Hi everyone, I hope you are managing to stay safe and sane at home. Not
surprisingly, there was a fair amount of coronavirus-related discussion in the
ANZAGG facebook group this month. Please see below or attached for details.
warm regards, Leona
Australia and New ZealandAccessible Graphics Group
Facebook Group Activity
March 2020
TheANZAGG facebook group is located at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ANZAGG/.
Anyonewith an interest in accessible graphics is invited to join the group,
share theirnews and contribute to discussions. The group currently has 212
members.
28March 2020
Accessible informationon COVID-19 and where to find it.
What else is available? What else do you want?
http://accessiblegraphics.org/2020/03/22/covid19/
21 March 2020
Magnetic drawing boardwith metal balls. Useful for touch readers or are the
holes too far apart?
Comments:
- We got ours online from https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000015162417.html
- We have one, but mostly use it as a drawing tool and activity that
students can use independently, not for Braille instruction.
- Thanks. I didn't even think of using it for braille - my (sighted) kids
did it!
- I’m curious about how easily the balls drop back down if a student is
running their hands over say a shape drawn on the board.
- I wondered about that too. The balls do drop back down if you press them
too hard, so a soft touch is required.
- Funny I played with one for first time last week and immediately thought
of Braille but I felt it was just a touch too sensitive to touch to be very
useful educationally but still might be quite entertaining for VI as well as
sighted kids. But maybe I was just a bit heavy handed.
- Agreed. It is not perfect but worth adding to our kit of easy tactile
drawing tools.
20 March 2020
Google provided anexcellent animation today honouring Ignaz Semmelweis and
demonstrating goodhandwashing technique. But it is entirely visual. In our
haste to shareinformation about COVID-19, are the vision impaired community
missing out? What information/support is most urgent?
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-doodle-honors-handwashing-pioneer-dr-ignaz-semmelweis/
Comments:
- I think yes L
- I thought the exact thing and wondered if there was Alt text to go with it.
- Handwashing technique, as per WHO recommendations
(https://www.who.int/gpsc/clean_hands_protection/en/):
0. Wet hands with water
1. Apply enough soap to cover all hand surfaces
2. Rub hands palm to palm
3. Right palm over back of left hand with interlaced fingers, and vice versa
4. Palm to palm with fingers interlaced
5. Back of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked
6. Rotational rubbing of left thumb clasped in right fist, and vice versa
7. Rotational rubbing, backwards and forwards with clasped fingers of right
hand in left palm, and vice versa
8. Rinse hands with water
9. Dry thoroughly with a single use towel
10. Use towel to turn off tap
11. ... and your hands are safe.
18 March 2020
Getting access toCOVID-19 infographics via high contrast and audio. Remote
workshop by EdSummers (SAS) and Chancey Fleet to be held this Thursday 2pm
Eastern Time US(Friday 5am Australian EST).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRDQxMs9spo46jbI6ss0Yaiu5tDNRTSoAW7jULZdhEICCygV-EnSOYiaH2DVSmqEMYuOCIlArY2AhOp/pub
Comments:
- Very relevant indeed and important
- Thanks, just registered
- Ed Summers has created a number of accessible graphics and will continue
to update them as the virus spreads. The graphics are available from
https://support.sas.com/.../Samples/COVID-19/index.html. To access the graphs ;
(or create your own) you first need to download the free SAS Graphics
Accelerator plug-in for Chrome.
18 March 2020
The ANZAGG annualmeeting will be postponed.
http://printdisability.org/conference/
Comment: Now that the Round Table Conference will bepostponed until 2021, I
would like to propose that we hold a virtual AnnualMeeting by Zoom. Further
details still to come!
16 March 2020
Late-breaking news...
Amazing Space offers a library of Hubble images designed forprinting on
microcapsule (swell) paper.
http://history.amazingspace.org/tactile-astronomy/
14 March 2020
Want more accessibleinformation about COVID-19? Braille and tactile
infographics are available fordownload.
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1L3Gvw4uuAoZWTv5i2iIT1f2HRYW6boMF
3 March 2020
Full recording of YumaDecaux presenting at OZeWAI 2020 on multi-dimensional
accessibility tools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch
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