Hi all,
If you missed their session at ALA Annual, please consider attending a free webinar opportunity coming up on August 18 with PLA centered around training librarians to support community members navigating Apple's accessibility features. In this webinar, panelists will share the new Libraries Advancing Accessibility Toolkit, which helps staff and patrons increase access to and awareness of settings, apps, and resources available on the iPad and iPhone. More information and link to registration.
Accessibility is central to making libraries welcoming, human-centered, and truly public. In this webinar, PLA will share the new Libraries Advancing Accessibility Toolkit, which helps staff and patrons increase access to and awareness of settings, apps, and resources available on the iPad and iPhone.
The toolkit supports older adults, people with low vision, and users with hand motor issues, such as tremors, arthritis, or limited dexterity. Participants are encouraged to bring their iPhones and iPads to explore some of the accessibility tools featured in the toolkit during the session. Leave with practical tips and tools to expand tech training and one-on-one support in your library.
Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify tools to build staff comfort and confidence using Apple accessibility features;
- Identify tools to help patrons build comfort and confidence using Apple accessibility features in a workshop, one-on-one interactions, and/or on their own; and
- Identify materials you can use to assist patrons in exploring Apple accessibility features in a workshop, one-on-one interactions, and/or on their own.
Panelists
Patricia B. Ball, PhD (she/her) is branch manager of Stratton Branch, part of Cobb County Public Library System located in Marietta, GA. Ball is a passionate advocate for equal access to library services for all. She is committed to serving the unserved and underserved. Ball believes that access to broadband is a right for every citizen and works to help alleviate the inequalities created by the digital divide in her community.
Witt Salley is the teen services librarian at Quince Orchard Library, a branch of Montgomery County (MD) Public Libraries, where he develops programs for teens and emerging adults and provides reference, technology, and digital literacy support to patrons across age groups. Salley serves as secretary of the Maryland Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Panel and as a member of PLA's Digital Literacy Advisory Group. Earlier in his career, he led award-winning online learning units in higher education and now applies that experience to instructional design, digital access, and equitable lifelong learning in public libraries.
Devin Wood (she/her) is the head of adult services at the Antioch (IL) Public Library District, overseeing reference services, programming, and the makerspace. She currently serves on her library's Digital Accessibility Committee.
Michelle Frisque is a technology leader focused on technology adoption, digital equity, design thinking, and executing transformative organizational change with a human touch. She has a Master of Learning and Organization Change from Northwestern University and a Master of Library and Information Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Hillary Pearson
she/her/hers
Program Manager, Accessibility Services, Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services (ODLOS)
American Library Association
P: (312) 280-5020
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