Refreshing and Rethinking Braille Awareness Presentations with a Focus on Equity and Accessibility

Date

January 27, 2022 13:00 - 14:30

Location

Online

Details

Website: https://nnels.ca/world-braille-day

Register online by Monday, January 24, 2022

Event Details:
Thursday, January 27, 2022
2:00 pm (Atlantic) | 1:00 pm (Eastern) | 10:00 am (Pacific)

This session will emphasize both braille awareness activities and the importance of braille in accessible design. Strategies will focus on the process of co-designing a classroom or community-based presentation with braille users. TVIs and members of students’ educational teams will learn a variety of methods to introduce the braille code to classroom audiences as well as strategies for engaging students in a broader conversation around accessibility, equity, and inclusion at school and in their communities.

Target Audience: While the session is geared to educators, students who read braille are also welcome to attend!

Language of Delivery: English

In celebration of World Braille Day, Braille Literacy Canada (BLC), the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB), the CNIB Foundation, the Centre for Equitable Library Access (CELA), the National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS), and the Provincial Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired (PRCVI) are organizing a series of online events.

This celebration of braille is open to people of all ages who are curious about braille, either practically, professionally, or somewhere in between! Target audiences include all braille readers, library staff, and educators. The celebration will be conducted virtually on Zoom.

All sessions (excluding any live Q&A) will be recorded and posted publicly after the series of events has concluded. Even if you’re unable to attend, please register to receive an email notification when the recordings are available.

For more information about this series of events, please contact braille@nnels.ca