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From: Karen Mardahl
Date: May 9, 2012 10:10AM

I volunteer to coordinate the Danish and maybe get some other Nordic
languages set, too.

Just to brag about my bit for GAAD: I just used 50 minutes to transcribe a
3.44 YouTube video about the odt2braille and odt2daisy extensions for
AccessODF, the accessibility evaluation checker for OpenOffice and
LibreOffice.
The video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GeCsjnAEXg
I submitted my transcript to someone who should turn the transcript into
captions soon.

The 50 minutes includes all my multiple checks of words, plus writing the
mail to send off the transcript, and a couple of interruptions at my desk.
Soon, open source afficionados will be flocking to SourceForge to download
these products...!

And now to head home and finalize the slides for my presentation tomorrow
about "Building Accessibly" - for software developers. This list has given
me input and inspiration and I will report back on what happens. If you can
read Danish, you can read the blurb at
http://communityday2012.c1preprod01.composite.net/Program/Byg-tilgaengeligt
The picture of me has, of course, no alt text. After tomorrow, I hope
they'll have learned their lesson!

regards, Karen Mardahl

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Denis Boudreau < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Hi Jennison,
>
> A proposal, much more than a simple comment or a criticism: for next year,
> let's make GAAD really global by making it available in different
> languages. <smile>
>
> For starters, I'm volunteering to help with french...
>
> /Denis
>
>
>
> On 2012-05-08, at 6:56 PM, Jennison Mark Asuncion wrote:
>
> > In some parts of the world, May 9, and the launch of the first Global
> > Accessibility Awareness Day is already upon us. Please take a minute to
> > forward this e-mail to at least one designer or developer, or someone who
> > influences the funding or use of technology and who likely knows little
> to
> > nothing about digital accessibility at all.
> >
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > May 9 marks the first Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). GAAD is
> a
> > community effort to get people talking, thinking and learning about
> > digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with
> > different disabilities. The goal is to spread basic awareness especially
> > among the design, development, usability, and related communities who
> > build, shape, fund and influence technology use and change.
> >
> > Please take time out of your day to learn more about digital
> accessibility
> > first-hand and get involved http://www.mysqltalk.com/participate.html.
> > Consider sharing this message with your contacts.
> >
> > With thanks in advance,
> > Joe Devon and Jennison Asuncion
> > Co-Organizers, Global Accessibility Awareness Day
> > http://www.globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org
> > Like us on Facebook:
> http://www.facebook.com/globalaccessibilityawarenessday
> > Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gbla11yday
> >
>