So I gave #ClaudeAI a try to see how well it handled #SVG education, and sure enough it finally helped me wrap my brain around how the viewbox attribute works. I wrote up a new section on BlindSVG.com to show how you can leverage both that and the width/height attributes to control the overall scale of your #TactileGraphics when outputting them! Viewbox actually defines the canvas size,, and width/height defines how big or small the actual output will be: https://blindsvg.com/pages/setup/index.html#viewbox

How tactile graphics can help end image poverty

#technology #tech #design #tactilegraphics #library #nypl

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/15/1074036/ending-image-poverty/

If you are attending #NFB23 in Houston and would love to learn #SVG coding as a non-visual way to build #TactileGraphics and #TactileArt, come swing by the tactile art and picture book Room (Hilto Americas Room 344), on July 1st and 2nd from 6pm-7pm CT! I'll be teaching a crash course for us #Blind creatives and anyone else interested. Will be going over tips and tricks that I also have up on BlindSVG.com and go over bestpractices. Bring a laptop and let's create together!

A brilliant article by @ChanceyFleet on the importance of #TactileGraphics and how they can be used to combat image poverty for #Blind people everywhere. Being able to touch, understand, and create design, art, data, conceptualizations, layout, and more helps us all understand and participate that much more in the world, and work like this is making that outreach and education possible. #A11y https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/15/1074036/ending-image-poverty/

If you missed our #AxeCon talk about #AstroAccess and building #TactileGraphics for zero-G space flight, and are interested in learning more about how #Blind people can draw and create their own digital graphics and designs through #SVG code and Sensational Blackboards, come check us out again at the Bay Area #Accessibility and #InclusiveDesign Meetup talk! https://www.meetup.com/a11ybay/events/294149681

I just launched a new site devoted to teaching how to create #TactileArt and #TactileGraphics using #SVG code. The focus is on #accessibility and opening up creativity to #blind and #low-vision folks who want to participate in building graphics, iterate on ideas, and use SVG for projects ready for embosser, swell-form, 3D print, and CriCut output. Come check it out! https://blindSVG.com

#Literacy includes reading #graphics, #maps & more. While #braille is well-defined, #tactilegraphics are often highly varied. The founder of @HandidBraille@mastodon.world was once an illustrator & is experienced with #tactile #graphics! Visit https://www.handid.org to learn how we can help you meet the needs of your readers!

#Literacy includes reading #graphics, #maps & more. While #braille is well-defined, #tactilegraphics are often highly varied. The founder of @HandidBraille@mastodon.world was once an illustrator & is experienced with #tactile #graphics! Visit https://www.handid.org to learn how we can help you meet the needs of your readers!

Handid Braille Services is a #501c3 corporation that produces #accessible media, including #braille, #tactilegraphics, & #screenreader friendly materials.

100% of #donations are used to reduce the cost of producing accessible media. Visit handid.org to see more of what we do!

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It's been a while since I've written something for my blog, and just posted about my journey into #TactileGraphics and #TactileArt after having gone #Blind almost a decade ago. I never thought I'd draw again, and here I am helping to teach other blind and low-vision folks how to create drawings both physically and digitally! https://marconius.com/blog/index.php/2023/04/16/on-drawing/

The #TactileDrawing Teach-In at the NYPL Andrew Heiskell branch this week was absolutely brilliant, and it couldn't have happened without @ChanceyFleet, Ann Cunningham, and the rest of our instructional team that came together to teach art and drawing techniques, different methods of building #TactileGraphics, and connecting or reconnecting #blind and low-vision folks to these mediums. Check out my #SVG study guide for coding these graphics here: https://tinyurl.com/BlindSVGStudyGuide

Can't wait for #AxeCon to start next week! If you want to check out amazing talks and panels surrounding #a11y development, design, and updates in #Deque tools for evaluating #Accessibility, come register for free! And don't miss our talk about creating #TactileGraphics for the #AstroAccess project on the 15th at 1pm PT! https://www.deque.com/axe-con/register/ https://www.deque.com/axe-con/sessions/maker-space-a-diy-accessible-workflow-for-tactile-graphics-used-in-zero-gravity-flight/

If you are in or around #NYC on March 23-25th and want to learn #TactileDrawing and #TactileArt, sign up and come join our TeachIn at the #NYPL Andrew Heiskell Talking Book Library! I'll be helping @ChanceyFleet and #AnnCunningham teach #blind drawing and art concepts, #SVG coding, and how to create #TactileGraphics and tap into your creative and spatial skills. This is really exciting! #a11y #FeelAroundAndFindOut https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdB-q2xMqfVzx5Ltu-9KxkbqaGaWW3WuTwcdJ6oGxldupAAJg/viewform

#Introduction I’m a blind person interested in #AccessibleAstronomy. #ImageDescriptions, #sonifications, #TactileGraphics, how else can we experience the universe? This will be a space to highlight work in this area, with the occasional original thought thrown in.

If you are attending #AxeCon this year, come check out our Wildcard talk discussing #TactileGraphics and the #AstroAccess project! @ChanceyFleet will lead as we talk about making tactile panels for #accessible #spaceFlight for the #Blind. Our talk starts on March 15th at 4pm ET. https://youtu.be/749CIQyMEMY

Had an amazing time at our #TactileDrawing retreat out in #Toronto! We showed off different methods of rendering #TactileGraphics to people at the #CNIB, then back at our house we went into intensive study of different drawing techniques using #SensationalBlackboards for 3 days in our group while learning ways to teach perspective, obscuration, composition, orthographic views, and other techniques to #blind artists, and so much more! I love being able to draw again and teaching others!

Had an amazing time at our #TactileDrawing retreat out in #Toronto! We showed off different methods of rendering #TactileGraphics to people at the #CNIB, then back at our house we went into intensive study of different drawing techniques using #SensationalBlackboards for 3 days in our group while learning ways to teach perspective, obscuration, composition, orthographic views, and other techniques to #blind artists, and so much more! I love being able to draw again and teaching others!

At #SFO waiting to board my flight to #Toronto! Heading to a #TactileGraphics and #TactileDrawing workshop and retreat. Will learn and skill share on how to teach drawing to other #blind folks and tap back into all of my artistic skills from my previously sighted life. Going to be with @ChanceyFleet and other amazing people, and am looking forward to all the food, coffee, and Canadian shenanigans, eh? :)

If anybody in #Helsinki #Suomi is making or needing tactile graphics I would be happy to help as I can! I am sighted, working on a #CAD app, and have #Cricut at home. I know #Oodi library maker space has quality tools with potential for that.

cc @ChanceyFleet is #TactileGraphics a good organizing hashtag?

Reading about efforts to cut braille using hobbyist vinyl cutters, combined with the memory of a recent museum trip, has reminded me to wonder whether blind Sumerians might have been able to read cuneiform by touch? #TactileGraphics