<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">First webcast of the year! And a good one. Everybody needs to be reminded to do alt texts, and this is an original approach. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u><div class="m_-6502450689816716140subscription-body-tag"><table style="width:100%;background:#dddddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><tbody><tr><td><span style="display:none!important"> joly posted: "Today, Tuesday January 2 2017  at 7pm ET Accessibility New York City (A11yNYC) will hold its monthly meetup. This month's presentation is How Learning ASL Improved my Alt Text. Knowing how to explain things in an inherently visual language can help to exp" </span><table class="m_-6502450689816716140subscribe-body" style="width:100%;padding:10px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0 auto;overflow:hidden"><table class="m_-6502450689816716140subscribe-wrapper" style="width:100%;background-color:#fff;text-align:left;max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0 auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-6502450689816716140the-post" valign="top"><div class="m_-6502450689816716140post-content" style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><img class="m_-6502450689816716140size-full m_-6502450689816716140wp-image-8875" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid #ccc;" src="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/a11ynyc.png" alt="A11yNYC" border="0">Today, <strong>Tuesday January 2 2017</strong>  at <strong>7pm ET <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://a11ynyc.com/">Accessibility New York City</a></strong> (A11yNYC) will hold its monthly meetup. This month's presentation is <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/236358319/">How Learning ASL Improved my Alt Text</a></strong>. Knowing how to explain things in an inherently visual language can help to explain visual images in inherently non-visual ways. The structure of description in American Sign Language has parallels with the needs of those who can't see an image, but want to understand it. Speaker <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://twitter.com/slauriat">Shaun Lariaut</a></strong> will explore the basic concepts around alt text and the basic conceptual structure of visual description, review some examples, pick apart the process of how each piece fits together, and then run through a few examples. The session will be webcast live via <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHOYghYYNIM">A11yNYC YouTube Channel</a></strong> with closed captions.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><strong>View on YouTube</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://youtu.be/gHOYghYYNIM">https://youtu.be/gHOYghYYNIM</a></p></div><table class="m_-6502450689816716140auto-width" style="width:auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:10px"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#fff;border-radius:10em;border:1px solid #11729e;background-color:#2585b2;padding:5px 15px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;margin-left:0;white-space:nowrap" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8873#respond">Comment</a></td><td>   <a class="m_-6502450689816716140subscribe-action-link" style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8873#comments">See all comments</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="m_-6502450689816716140subscribe-wrapper-sub" style="width:100%;background-color:#efefef;text-align:left;border-top:1px solid #ddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#efefef"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-6502450689816716140subscribe-content" style="border-top:1px solid #f3f3f3;color:#888;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background:#efefef"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 10px 0px"> </p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family: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