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Canadian Council of the Blind's Get Together with Technology Program
Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians' Accessible Information and Copyright Committee
Education
Toronto, Ontario
July 27, 2016
Canadian Council of the Blind's
Get Together with Technology Program
and
Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians'
Accessible Information and Copyright Committee

Topic: Canadian Library Services: Who provides it, what do they provide, how does it work and what does the future look like?
Date & Time: Wednesday, July 27, 2016, 7:00 until 8:30 PM Ontario Time
Call-in #: For Smart Phone users, 1-866-740-1260,5670311#
Toll Free: 1-866-740-1260, Code: 5670311#
Moderators: Leo Bissonnette, AEBC National Board Member and Albert Ruel, GTT Coordinator.
Who's Invited: All blind, deaf-blind or partially sighted Canadian residents.

As the participating audience you will hear presentations from representatives of the Canadian Equitable Library Association's, Michael Ciccone and Margaret Williams, and from the National Network for Equitable Library Services' we have Sabina Iseli-Otto presenting.

We have provided the presenters a list of topics captured from in person GTT gatherings and from the AEBC Member Email Discussion list, and it is our goal that their presentations will thoroughly cover those topics, then we'll open the phone lines for your additional and supplementary questions. Where appropriate, we have designed questions so that both organizations can speak to their unique services. Neither organization will be asked to comment on the other's services, and no participant will be permitted to ask/comment about one from the other. The goal of this gathering is to answer questions related to "what is", and that difficulties/concerns with the services outlined by the presenters will be taken up by the participant with the respective organizations outside of this call.

Each presenting organization has been sent their own service-specific questions, so that following the July 27th call your organizing committee intends that we will be able to distribute to participants written responces to those questions that have been requested of the presenters.

The call will last no longer than 90 minutes. Each presenter will be given 20 minutes to respond to our questions; then callers will have approximately 25 minutes to ask additional questions. Then the second speaker will present following the same time frame.

Your moderators will watch the time, notifying each presenter when they have 5 minutes left.

What is CCB and GTT?

The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization.

The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments. CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.

The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.

As the largest membership organization for the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind".

GTT was started in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman to give people a chance to share low and high-tech solutions, tips, and resources, and was soon brought under the CCB National umbrella as another consumer driven service and participation initiative. Through GTT you can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.

The group is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field. The GTT group meets monthly to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.

For more information about GTT contact: Kim Kilpatrick at GTTProgram@Gmail.com, 1-613-567-0311,513, or Albert A. Ruel at GTTWest@CCBNational.net 1-613-567-0311,550.

What is AEBC?

AEBC is a national grassroots, peer support organization that is comprised of Canadians who are blind, deaf-blind or partially sighted and our supporters from the public at large. Our membership is comprised of a diverse range of socioeconomic backgrounds, educational achievements, life experiences, professional and nonprofessional occupations. These members work to ensure AEBC has a voice on all matters affecting participation in Canada’s mainstream society.



AEBC’s individual and collective advocacy efforts have been successful across Canada for almost twenty-five years and have spurred innovation in the private sector. This advocacy has resulted in many advancements and opportunities now available to blind Canadians in the mainstream of our society. In fact, most of the successful innovations with respect to information, communication and technology have taken place as a direct result of our members. They have acted individually and collectively, identifying and challenging Governments and other regulated organizations to make websites, banking machines, personal financial and healthcare information available in accessible formats for people unable to read standard print independently, confidentially and securely.


For more information about AEBC contact: Marcia Yale, National Secretary at Info@BlindCanadians.ca, or 1-800-561-4774.

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