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A UK registered charity operating over the internet to provide accessible computer training, support and social activities for blind and visually impaired people worldwide. |
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TAFN is proud to have exhibited at Sight Village London 2011 and would like to thank the organisers QAC as well as everyone who visited us, whether at the show or online. |
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Intro by Leon Gilbert.
Following last year's attempt at going on virtual walkabout at the show, I did try it again this year but with a laptop and dual headsets connected, to try and improve things. Doing virtual walkabout gives TAFN members who are unable to attend physically, a way to attended virtually from home. This years virtual attendees included people from the Netherlands and Australia! as well as the UK. TAFN moderators Steve P from Leicestershire (Day 1) and Monique L from the Netherlands (Day 2) kindly did some recording from home via TAFN Communicator & we have the following audio clips available to listen to:-
1) A talk with Metro Blind Sports, describing their organisation's activities and explaining (amongst other things), blind tennis.
Listen to the Metro Blind Sports clip
2) A brief chat between TAFN and one of it's early members Dave Kent, who now works for Guide Dogs UK and was exhibiting for them at the event.
3) News about the possibility of our getting a copy of a "Blindness and the Blitz: The Unseen War" CD which features late TAFN member Bill Cox, who was a blind rehab worker during World War 2.
Listen to the Blindness and the Blitz CD update clip
4) A talk with the DIGITAL SWITCHOVER stand who were at the show, with questions asked about the help available to blind people.
Listen to the Digital Switchover presentation.
5) A chat with Martin Roberts from HUMANWARE featuring the TREKKER navigation device and VICTOR READER STREAM portable audio player.
Listen to the Humanware presentation (LINK FIXED!)
1) A chat with Rachel of The Living Paintings Trust, a UK charity who provide a tactile image and image description library service and more.
Listen to the Living Paintings Trust presentation
2) A chat with Vision Aid technologies, about their magnifier and document reader technologies
Listen to the Vision Aid Technologies clip
3) A chat with the local police who were at the exhibition & their plans to do more to help blind people
Listen to the local police clip
4) A chat with Simon of Cobolt Systems, featuring news of their newest technologies with questions from virtual attendees
Listen to the Cobolt Systems presentation
Apologies for the poor quality on some of the above recordings, due to microphone issues, background noise and technical problems with the wi-fi at the venue. We hope you still enjoy them!
The Metro Blind Sports website
BBC News article from 2007 entitled "Blitz project to capture memories"
Digital UK, Switchover Help Scheme website
The Living Paintings Trust website
The Sight Village website, with details of upcoming exhibitions for 2012
TAFN's VoIp server is fully accessible to blind & visually impaired people, with in built speech for room announcements such as people entering and leaving rooms. Our volunteers team works together to provide a regular & busy schedule of realtime events via our screen reader-friendly VoIp server, including music, quizzes, talk programmes, computer training and more. Find out more
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All pages & content at www.tafn.org.uk copyright The Accessible Friends Network and it's individual members 2003 - 2011. All rights reserved. UK Registered Charity No.1108043.
