The DC Public Library Adaptive Services Division sponsors a joint Accessible App Demo and Discussion / Accessibility Problem Identification Workshop from 1pm to 5pm on Saturday November 5th in room 215 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
From 1pm to 3pm will be a chance for adaptive technology users to demo and discuss accessible iPhone and other apps, and from 3pm to 5pm will be a chance for web developers and project managers to work with the user group to define problems that could have ICT solutions. This event would be in preparation for a hackathon, tentatively scheduled for Saturday November 11 at the same location, to produce solutions for these problems.
This Hackathon will be an opportunity for developers to get together and build tools that meet the needs of the user community. With the preparation of the Problem Identification Workshop on Saturday Nov 5th, the Hackathon Preparation Session on November 8th, and the help of organizations like Bookshare, Random Hacks of Kindness, LibraryLab, and the Wikimedia Foundation, we hope to be able to come up with a simple and completable ICT solution to one or more needs that are defined by the user community.
