This paper was presented at the 2010 conference of the Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities: http://www.printdisability.org. You can read the full paper and listen to the audio recording on the conference blog site: http://roundtable2010.wordpress.com/conference-proceedings/8a-aotearoa-peoples-network-kaharoa/

1. Once Upon a Library:
NVDA and The Aotearoa
People’s Network Kaharoa
Keiran McNabb & Moata Tamaira
Round Table on Information Access for
People with Print Disabilities Inc. 2010

2. Hawera Library,
Manaia
Hawera Library

3. The Aotearoa People’s
Network Kaharoa...what
is that, exactly?

4. The Digital Strategy (2005)
► Connectivity
► Confidence
► Content

5. We provide -
► Fast broadband
► PCs & Printer
► Wifi
► Digital repository & scanner
► Helpdesk support & staff training

6. The Funding
► National Library of New Zealand
funding
► Funding from the Digital Strategy
through the Community Partnership
Fund and latterly direct grants.
► Contribution from Partner Libraries
needed to retain the current level of
support long term.

7. Where are the
APNK partner
libraries and
marae?

8. Dunedin
City Library

9. Gene Gibson & Keiran McNabb with
Extra Touch Awards, October 2009

10. What is NVDA?

11. NVDA = Non Visual Desktop Access -
► Free open source product
► Available in a portable version for use
on USB drive
► Works with Windows operating system
► Available in over 20 languages

12. The New Inventors [video]
ABC Television
Broadcast date 10 March 2010
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/video/
video.htm

13. One person, acting locally
► Brought the product to our attention
► Made suggestions about how to
configure it
► Provides us with ongoing feedback
► Keeps us in the loop on other products
that are available

14. Effects
► Over 500 PCs in 120 APNK libraries
all over NZ now have accessibility
software installed
► Christchurch City Libraries has
followed suit in their 20 libraries
► Who will be next?

15. The recipe to making it work
► A solid, secure, stable infrastructure
► Belief in the “access for all” philosophy
► Listen to, and communicate with your
customers. They’re experts...not you.
► Having a free, usable product
available – if no one makes one, we can’t
use it.

16. The best thing about a recipe is that
anyone can follow it.
► APNK and Christchurch City Libraries
have come on board. Who is next?
► Ingredients aren’t that exotic.
► Why stop at libraries?
► Think globally, Act locally!