Audio Description Workshop on OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries)

You might be interested in this upcoming audio description workshop on on OPAL/Online Programming for All Libraries.... (and you don't have to be a librarian to attend... everyone is welcome!)

Here's more info from the email from Tom Peters/TAP Information Services:

Audio description is a great method for making non-verbal visual information (such as digital photographs) accessible to blind and low-vision users. Everyone is welcome to attend this upcoming free online workshop. There is no need to register. See below for details. For links to this and other upcoming OPAL online events, please visit

http://www.opal-online.org/progschrono.htm

Monday, April 7, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, noon Central, 11:00 a.m. Mountain, 10:00 a.m. Pacific, and 5:00 p.m. GMT/UTC/Zulu:

Audio Description Workshop

Host: Alliance Library System

Online Location: OPAL Online Auditorium

This workshop will cover the purpose, techniques, and value of Audio Description (AD), a narrative technique that makes visual images more accessible to blind and low-vision people by producing written and audible descriptions of non-verbal visual information, such as digital photographs, television programs, motion pictures, and live events. Please note: This workshop will last approximately 2.5 hours.

Tom Peters, OPAL Coordinator

TAP Information Services
1000 SW 23rd Street
Blue Springs, MO 64015
phone: 816-228-6406
email: tpeters@tapinformation.com
web: www.tapinformation.com