[Chapter-delegates] WEBCAST TODAY: Tactile Design For Accessibility @a11yNYC

[Joly MacFie]

It might not, at first, be obvious about tactile design affects Internet
accessibility. But the Internet Society is not just about networking
machines,  it's also about people. Recently the Accessibility SIG went to
some pains to produce braille business cards, ending up using an Australian
firm that is pioneering new technology.


ISOC Live posted: "Today, Tuesday December 3 2019 is International Day of
Persons with Disabilities. At 7pm EST (00:00 UTC) the AccessibiltyNYC
Meetup will hold a workshop Tactile Design For Accessibility facilitated by
the NYU Ability Project.  The first half of the sessio"


[image: livestream]
<https://livestream.com/internetsociety/tactiledesign/>Today,
*Tuesday December 3 2019* is *International Day of Persons with
Disabilities
<https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/news/news/idpd2019.html>*.
At *7pm EST* (00:00 UTC) the *AccessibiltyNYC Meetup
<https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/>* will hold a workshop *Tactile Design For
Accessibility <https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/266585985/>*
facilitated by the *NYU Ability Project <http://ability.nyu.edu/>*.  The
first half of the session will highlight design standards and best
practices for producing discernible tactile graphics.  The second half of
the session will provide hands-on experience designing and producing
tactile designs using microcapsule paper and a fuser. The presentations
will be webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel
<https://livestream.com/internetsociety/>*.

*View on Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/tactiledesign/
<https://livestream.com/internetsociety/tactiledesign/>*
*View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0kIpBrHFAsQ
<https://youtu.be/0kIpBrHFAsQ>*

*Twitter: #tactiledesign <http://bit.ly/2OP7BSR> @allynyc @AbilityNYU #idpd*

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https://isoc.live/11553/



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