We provided some images from the recent AIR Interactive and Dewey Winburne awards (presented by Knowbility.org at South by Southwest) to the HeliOS project for their blog.
Ken Starks has been fabulous during this entire process—from the request for images to his accurately crediting our site and our work and the communicating the blog post to us. It came full circle today when a client emailed us having seen the post on Ken’s site!
We frequently donate our time and images to non-profit endeavors. When that effort connects us to someone like Ken, we realize that it is aaaaaalllll worth it!
“What wonderful pictures you captured at the Air/Knowbility Awards this year. Man they absolutely sparkle.”
-Ken S.
Knowbility.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to “ensure barrier-free I.T. – supporting the independence of people with disabilities by promoting the use and improving the availability of accessible information technology.”. They have an activity-filled booth each year at South by Southwest’s Interactive conference (SxSWi). Last year, our volunteer experience with them was fabulous. So, this year, we did it again. We volunteered every day of the trade show working the booth and teaching people about all the wonderful things Knowbility does. We also volunteered again for their award program at Scholz Garten where they presented winners of AIR Interactive and the Dewey Awards.
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Thank you, Teenya, Desie, Annie, Sharon, and the rest of the staff and volunteers for another great volunteer experience. We love working with you and your events!
For the last two years, we have donated time at the Knowbility booth at the South by Southwest Interactive/Film (SxSWi) Trade Show. Working with technology and designers/developers who help those in need is always a rewarding experience.
During the very limited down time, we grabbed a few hosts of the volunteers/staff at the booth and guests engaging in demonstrations. However, with SxSWi attendance over 15,000 this year—surpassing the number of registrants for SxSW Music—there was very little downtime. What a wonderful problem to have!
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Desi offered to be part of a podcast.
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Desi also gave fabulous demonstrations to web designers and developers to they could hear how their site “looks” to someone who is visually impaired.
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Coming soon:
We also photographed Knowbility’s AirInteractive and Dewey Awards and will post those images soon.
Knowbility hosted Access U at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas May 11-13, 2009.
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As You Wish was lucky to have the chance to volunteer at South By Southwest Interactive working closely with the staff and volunteers of Knowbility, a 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization whose mission is to "ensure barrier-free I.T. – supporting the independence of people with disabilities by promoting the use and improving the availability of accessible information technology."
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