Making e-books accessible: Topic of Thursday chatcast

From Tom Peters:

Want to learn more about accessible electronic books?
 
This Thursday afternoon beginning at 4:00 Eastern Daylight Time, 3:00 Central, 2:00 Mountain, and 1:00 Pacific there will be a one-hour online interview with Geoff Freed.
 
He is the Project Manager of the Beyond the Text Project at the CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM). NCAM is studying ways to make multimedia (images, audio and video) used in e-books accessible to people who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind or visually impaired.
 
 Background on Geoff Freed:

He is a leading expert on accessible Web-based multimedia and has developed methods and techniques which exploit industry standards and formats, such as QuickTime, RealNetworks and Microsoft streaming media. Mr. Freed is a member of the W3C's Timed Text working group, the WAI's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Education and Outreach working groups, and participated in the W3C's development of SMIL 2.0. He has a B.A. in English from the University of Nebraska.

To access the interview:

1. Go to the following URL:

http://www.tcconference.com/lib?auditorium&nopass_field=1

2. You will be taken to an entry screen containing very little information. Move your cursor into the box to the right of the word "name" and input your name.

3. After you input your name, simply press the Enter key on your keyboard. You will proceed into the online meeting room.

This interview is sponsored by the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center and is part of OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries), a collaborative effort of libraries of all types to increase and improve access to online programming for all library users.