Re: What's the market for accessible books on programming?
- From: Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:39:35 -0700
I agree with Laura. An easy way to create tactile diagrams would be
very, very cool, and especially if it could show images in different
slices or projections as different views are shown of some models.
When I think about descriptions of visual diagrams, I agree that
automating might be iterative and it is an interesting problem to
think about how to arrive at conventions that work reliably for each
new set of concepts as clusters of programming vocabulary change very
fast. Also people have been trained and developed skills in creating
mental maps using different vocabularies and conventions. Plus finding
readers or teammates schooled in the necessary vocabulary is an
interesting exercise and probably has some points that get to be
unique or highly specific for each different user and each different
person's background.
Some of my experience is just the hassle of realizing I need extra
time to get help and deal and then actually scheduling the needed
steps.
DoreneC
Seattle WA
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:44 AM, DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490,
1, 26 <jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think a good test of the quality of the verbal descriptions would be for
> those hearing them for the first time to do their own tactile diagrams and
> perhaps send them to a collection point. The tactile diagrams could then be
> compared with the originals to find out how good the existing verbal
> descriptions are and where those need improving. Such processes are by their
> nature recursive and time consuming but necessary learning tools for the
> standards writers and any stem people who help them by checking over diagrams.
>
>
>
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> I still think a purely verbal description should be accompanied with a
> tactile diagram. Just my opinion.
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Farough" <David.Farough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:01 PM
> Subject: Re: What's the market for accessible books on programming?
>
>
> I just received the following today.
>
> Maybe these standards could be used to describe figures and screens
> etc.
>
> WGBH Releases Guidelines for Describing STEM Images Within Digital
> Talking Books and on Web Sites
>
>
> September 24, 2009
>
>
>
> WGBH's National Center for Accessible Media Publishes Free
> Guidelines for Describing STEM Images for Use within Digital Talking
> Books and on Web Sites
>
> Free Webinars Scheduled
>
> A significant amount of Science, Technology, Engineering and
> Math (STEM) information is presented visually, from graphs and tables
> to
> diagrams and math equations. Students and professionals in the STEM
> fields who are blind or have low vision must find methods of accessing
> this data. In many cases, they rely on assistants to read and describe
> images in order to stay current with content in their fields of study.
> This creates a dependence that is inefficient, expensive and time
> consuming. Access to text through electronic files and digital talking
> books (DTBs) has created a great deal of independence for these users.
> NCAM's publication of these new guidelines means that presenting
> meaningful information about the images accompanying text can be more
> readily achieved.
>
> "Effective Practices for Description of Science Content within
> Digital Talking Books" is the result of a seminal 4-year effort
> encompassing multiple surveys with describers and with students and
> scientists with vision loss to research preferred practices for
> description of visual information in textbooks and journals. WGBH's
> Carl
> and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
> undertook this research thanks to a grant (# 04535663) from the
> National
> Science Foundation (NSF).
>
> WGBH worked in close collaboration with the American
> Foundation
> for the Blind (AFB), and together they assembled a broader network of
> researchers and experts including Recording for the Blind and
> Dyslexic,
> Inc. (RFB&D); the American Printing House for the Blind (APH);
> scientist
> and former NSF program officer Lawrence Scadden, and DAISY (Digital
> Accessible Information System) Consortium Secretary General George
> Kerscher. The DAISY Consortium is the world-wide network of libraries,
> publishers and service organizations that developed the DTB standard.
> All project partners contributed to the DAISY/NISO standard and all
> partners were among the 40 members of the National File Format Panel,
> which produced the National Instructional Materials Accessibility
> Standard (NIMAS).
>
> Chapters of the new guidelines cover description of a variety
> of
> information types, including bar charts, line graphs, Venn diagrams,
> tables, pie charts, flow charts and complex diagrams and
> illustrations.
> A resource section is also included, providing links to many
> organizations, tools and standards which all contribute to generating
> more accessible STEM materials. The guidelines are available online
> at:
>
> http://ncam.wgbh.org/publications/stemdx/intro.html
>
> NCAM staff will provide training for implementing these STEM
> Description Guidelines through free webinars. The dates and times for
> the webinars, which last an hour and a half, appear below. The same
> training is offered at each webinar; you can register for the time
> most
> convenient for you by sending an email to stemdescription@xxxxxxxx
>
> Wednesday, September 30 at 10:00 a.m. EST
> Monday, October 20 at 1:30 p.m. EST
> Thursday, December 3 at Noon EST
>
> Additional dates will be offered in 2010. These sessions are
> available at no cost thanks to funding from the National Science
> Foundation (grant # 0833608).
>
> Comment from a recent webinar participant:
>
> "It was an excellent program and very helpful. I will be using
> what I learned to train my students to create more accessible image
> descriptions. Thank you."
>
> Donna M. Kachlic
> Disability Support Services Specialist
> The University of Texas at Tyler
>
> "Effective Practices for Description of Science Content within
> Digital Talking Books" joins several other NCAM publications and tools
> that enable and promote access to media for all users. Among them:
>
> * "Accessible Digital Media: Design Guidelines for Electronic
> Publications, Multimedia and the Web"
> * "A Developer's Guide to Creating Talking Menus for Set-top
> Boxes and DVDs"
> * "IMS Guidelines for Developing Accessible Learning
> Applications"
> * MAGpie, the Media Access Generator (free, do-it-yourself
> software for creating captions and descriptions for multimedia)
>
> Links to all these resources are available at NCAM's site,
> <http://ncam.wgbh.org>
>
> About NCAM
>
> The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for
> Accessible
> Media at WGBH is a research, development and advocacy entity that
> works
> to make existing and emerging technologies accessible to all
> audiences.
> NCAM is part of the Media Access Group at WGBH, which also includes
> The
> Caption Center (est. 1972) and Descriptive Video Service(r) (est.
> 1990).
> Follow the Media Access Group on Facebook.
>
> About WGBH
>
> WGBH Boston <http://www.wgbh.org> is America's preeminent
> public
> broadcaster, producing such celebrated national PBS series as
> Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow, Frontline, Nova, American Experience,
> Arthur, Curious George and more than a dozen other award-winning
> primetime, lifestyle and children's series. WGBH is the leading
> producer
> of online content for pbs.org-- one of the most-visited dot-org sites
> on
> the Internet-- a major producer for public radio and a pioneer in
> developing educational multimedia and new technologies that make media
> accessible for people with disabilities. For its efforts, WGBH has
> been
> recognized with hundreds of honors, including Oscars, Emmys, Peabodys
> and duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards.
>
> Contact:
>
> Mary Watkins, WGBH
> mary_watkins@xxxxxxxx
> 617 300-3700 voice
> 617 300-2589 TTY
> http://access.wgbh.org
>
>
>
> David Farough
> Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de l'accessibilité
> Information Technology Services Directorate /
> Direction des services d'information technologiques
> Public Service Commission / Commission de la fonction publique
> Email / Courriel: David.Farough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Tel. / Tél: (613) 992-2779
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