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Nov 6
Nov 7
Nov 8(1 event)

2:00 pm: Tech Together: November 2022 (online)


Nov 8

Join the Access Technology team for a series of informal conversations on technology topics relevant to these current times. Tech Together is a chance to share your knowledge and experience, as well as learn from other blind technology users. Our Access Technology Specialists and Trainers share their expertise, tips, and handy resources on each week’s topic. Afterward, there is time for our students and friends to add to the conversation, as we all learn from each other.

What's Up with Watches

Smartwatches are becoming a prolific and popular option for health tracking and communication. Join the Access Technology team, and we'll discuss the features and accessibility enhancements available on these wonderful wearables.

Tuesday, November 1, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

RSVP for Tech Together: What's Up with Watches or leave a voicemail at 415-694-7618.

Keep in Touch with Tech

Technology allows everyone to stay connected. Join the Access Technology team, and we'll discuss some popular and accessible applications and services we can use to keep in touch with those who touch our lives.

Tuesday, November 8, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

RSVP for Tech Together: Keep in Touch with Tech or leave a voicemail at 415-694-7618.

Talk Shopping

We’ll be discussing the apps and services you can use to buy all your favorite things. Whether you're checking off items on a grocery list, shopping for a special occasion, or just indulging in a little retail therapy, we’ll highlight accessible ways to shop with confidence.

Tuesday, November 15, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

RSVP for Tech Together: Talk Shopping or leave a voicemail at 415-694-7618.

What's Cooking!

Tis the season for delicious dishes and festive feasts! Join the access technology team for a tasty Tech Together. We'll discuss tips and strategies for accessible recipe-finding and meal planning, as well as some accessible kitchen tools that can help you spice up your holidays.

Tuesday, November 22, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

RSVP for Tech Together: What’s Cooking! or leave a voicemail at 415-694-7618.

Nov 9
Nov 10(1 event)

2:00 pm: Introduction To Accessible Wayfinding (online)


Nov 10

Take your travel to the next level with Introduction To Accessible Wayfinding. Join Kacie Cappello and Fernando Macias from the Access Technology department, and O&M Specialist extraordinaire, Katt Jones, to explore the tools and techniques for navigating safely and confidently through our opening, changing world. We’ll discuss how native iPhone functionality like Siri and the Compass app can help you orient to your surroundings. You will learn route-planning strategies using Apple Maps and Google Maps, and how to get public transportation information from apps like Moovit and LiveBart. You will hear accessible apps like Microsoft Soundscape in action, and try features out for yourself. Whether you’re rediscovering your favorite coffeeshop, or preparing for your next great adventure, you’ll be ready to boldly go where you’ve always wanted to go!

When:

Thursday, 11/10/2022, from 2:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.
Thursday, 11/17/2022, from 2:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.
Thursday, 12/01/2022, from 2:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.
Thursday, 12/08/2022, from 2:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.
Thursday, 12/15/2022, from 2:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.

Where:

This is a virtual class to be attended via the Zoom platform. Please, if possible, attend the Zoom meeting on a separate device than your iPhone, so the phone can be used for in-class activities.

Course Prerequisites

To participate and fully benefit from this class, students must:

  1. Live in San Mateo, San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin or Humboldt county.
  2. Have an iPhone with up-to-date software and the ability to download apps.
  3. Be comfortable independently exploring new iPhone apps.
  4. Be comfortable using your phone and its accessibility features, (VoiceOver, Zoom, etc), to access information on the screen.
  5. Be comfortable using your phone in different environments and in all lighting conditions.
  6. Be comfortable listening to and processing multiple sources of audio feedback.
  7. Be comfortable using the phone outdoors to obtain information about your environment while traveling.

Note: After RSVP-ing, one of the class instructors will be in touch with a brief pre-course screener call. This step is required prior to enrollment.

RSVP: please email Julie Koh at JKoh@lighthouse-sf.org or call Julie on 415-694-7684. Space is limited and registrations close on November 7.

Nov 11(1 event)

10:00 am: Introductory Tactile Map Workshop (in-person)


Nov 11

LightHouse’s Rehabilitation Services and Media and Accessible Design departments are teaming up to present this free course on learning to read tactile maps.

This course is made possible thanks to a grant from the Federal Transportation Administration.

Prerequisites:

  • You must be an intermediate Braille reader
  • You must be aged 16 or up

In addition to the training, each student will take home free TMAPs of their residential area, one of the LightHouse San Francisco area at 1155 Market, as well as a tactile map of the Civic Center BART Station.

LightHouse Braille Instructor, Divina Carlson, and Senior Accessible Media and Braille Specialist, Frank Welte, along with tactile map aficionado, Jerry Kuns, will be facilitating this introductory training in the practical use of TMAP, tactile maps and tactile BART maps for Bay Area travelers. It must be noted that Jerry states he isn’t happier than when he has a good cappuccino in one hand and a tactile map in the other!

What will you learn?

  • Discover the value of tactile maps
  • Developing systematic strategies in your approach to exploration of tactile maps
  • Gaining deeper understanding of what a tactile map presents such as: symbols, line types, labels and distance, direction and environmental features.
  • Tactile discrimination techniques for map reading
  • Greater orientation to new environments
  • How could you have lived without tactile maps? How do I order more maps?

Come join us in learning the language of tactile maps. To attend, please contact Briana Kusuma, at BKusuma@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7335 no later than Friday, November 9. In your email, please provide Briana your full name, phone number and your residential address, so that we can produce your home map prior to the training.

Space is limited to 20 participants. Orientation & Mobility students may attend with their teachers. Because this is in-person, we are requesting that you provide proof of vaccination upon entry and wear a mask during the training.

 

 

 

Nov 12

The events for the upcoming week are read aloud on our event hotline every Friday, which can be accessed by calling 415-694-7325. For more information about visiting the Adaptations Store, head to our shop page.

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