ACB Media Calendar

Amazon obsesses about customer delight, and that includes customers with disabilities. In this session, Amazon accessibility experts will discuss the latest accessibility features for Fire TV, Fire tablet, Echo Show, Kindle, smart glasses and more. We will also review the suite of award-winning Fire OS accessibility features that have been delighting Amazon’s customers with disabilities for years. Speaker: Peter Korn, Director of Accessibility, Amazon Devices and Services

Representatives from each school will give updates. (double session)

Rabbi Andrew Goodman, the COO of JBI (Jewish Braille Institute) will present an introduction to Judaism workshop, focusing on exploring some basic tenets of Judaism and its yearly calendar of holidays. Questions will be welcomed.

Over the last 24 months, Prime Video has been working with customers and advocacy groups to make our content more accessible by improving the availability and quality of audio description. We continue progressing towards our north star of making high-quality Audio Description as commonly available as Captioning. In this session, we will present our learnings on this journey and the evolving mental models on quality across scripting, mixing and voicing of Audio Description. Speakers: Christopher Nooney, Principal Product Manager, Technology, Prime Video and Dr. Josh Miele, Principal Accessibility Researcher, Amazon Devices and Services

Learn about how community college staff partner with VR (vocational Rehabilitation) and other community agencies to better prepare disabled students for academic and career success facilitated by a five-year federal grant.

Representatives from each school will give updates. (double session)

Lucinda Moody, AB8WF, the Handiham Program Coordinator, will be speaking to us about the Handiham program and about ham radio in general.

Staff of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) Media Lab team will discuss the evolution of their approach to writing image descriptions of graphic novels and picture books, presenting challenges they have faced and best practices they have developed.

Talking Book libraries can do much more than send out books and magazines. Come hear how Floridians can access locally produced books and periodicals, videos, and how to work in collaboration with your local talking book library to enhance services. You will also hear how a “Friends of the Library” group in Florida has worked with their talking book library to support existing programming and to help finance fun and exciting new projects. How do they work together and what do they hope to achieve in the future.

Some Talking Book library users are also proud card carrying public library users. Come and learn how you might take advantage of your local public library to access services that could reduce your reliance on pay to play services to access books, music, videos and more. This session will include a short demonstration of the Libby online service offered by many public libraries around the country.

A panel discussion will take place regarding ways adult children, partners, and others support us as individuals with dual sensory loss.

Join Chris Peterson, Swatha Nandhakumar, and Dianna Leonard as they help us prepare for any networking event. They’ll guide us through an interactive P.R.E.P session to learn how to plan, research, navigate an event, and pursue leads. Then join us at our in-person event on July 6th to practice what you’ve P.R.E.P’d and where various affiliate and ACB committee members will attend to network with.