Upcoming Events Relating to Accessible Graphics

ANZAGG 3D Printing Meetings

The ANZAGG 3D Printing Group meets monthly as a forum to learn and share our progress in using 3D Printing to create models for and by touch readers. Meetings are held on Zoom monthly, usually on the third Wednesday of each month. All are welcome. Please contact leona.holloway@monash.edu to attend our meetings and/or join our group. Our upcoming meetings are:

August meeting: Wednesday 20 August 2025 at 9am Melbourne/Sydney time
Guest speakers: Chi-Hoon Kim, Ian Matty and Samuel Foulkes will talk about their partnership to publish “Juniper and the Red Swoosh“, a story by Juniper and her mother Chi-Hoon, with an accompanying 3D printed abacus that gives haptic and audio feedback.

September meeting: Wednesday 17 September 2025 at 9am Melbourne/Sydney time
Guest speakers: By popular demand, this month we will talk about all things UV printing, with introductory talks by Robin Thorn (Thawney Ltd) on types of printers, Eleanor Mayes (San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind) on designing for the UV printer, and the Vision Australia production team on how they have been using UV printing for tactile products.

October meeting: Wednesday 15 October at 11.30am Melbourne/Sydney time
Guest speaker: Jerry Zhang from the University of Washington will share his work on AI assisted 3D modelling by people who are blind or have low vision, as published in A11yShape.

Round Table Conference

The next Round Table Conference will be held in Adelaide in May 2026. Please refer to the Round Table website for more details.