**UPDATE: This session has been rescheduled for 5-11-23.**
This intensive workshop provides an overview of tactile graphics planning and design, production methods, and instruction in reading tactile graphics. Content will include an overview of the BANA Guidelines and Standards for tactile graphics, demonstration of low tech (hand-produced) and high tech (computer assisted) production methods, teaching strategies, commercial tactile graphics products available currently, and designated time for participants to produce graphics using the various methods.
Learning Objectives:
• Explore pre-requisite skills for understanding and decoding tactile graphics.
• Identify the three important skill sets required for reading tactile graphics.
• Discuss strategies used by successful tactile graphics readers.
• Evaluate the reader's level of ability to interpret a graphic.
• Identify resources to support teaching tactile graphics.