Wednesday, September 30 at 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. ET
Monday, October 20 at 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET
Thursday, December 3 at 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET
(Additional dates will be offered in 2010)

WGBH’s National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) published free guidelines for describing STEM images for use within digital talking books and on web sites. NCAM staff will provide training for implementing these STEM Description Guidelines through free webinars. The same training is offered at each webinar; you can register for the time most convenient for you by sending an email to stemdescription@wgbh.org

More information about the STEM image description guidelines:

“Effective Practices for Description of Science Content within Digital Talking Books” is the result of a seminal 4-year effort encompassing multiple surveys with describers and with students and scientists with vision loss to research preferred practices for description of visual information in textbooks and journals. Chapters of the new guidelines cover description of a variety of information types, including bar charts, line graphs, Venn diagrams, tables, pie charts, flow charts and complex diagrams and illustrations. A resource section is also included, providing links to many organizations, tools and standards which all contribute to generating more accessible STEM materials. The guidelines are available online at: http://ncam.wgbh.org/publications/stemdx/intro.html