<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">A transcript of this call is now available.</div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://a11ysig.org/misc/2020.05.28_a11ySIG_when_rhetoric_meets_reality.pdf">https://a11ysig.org/misc/2020.05.28_a11ySIG_when_rhetoric_meets_reality.pdf</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Thanks to everyone who attended!</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 8:42 AM Joly MacFie <<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com">joly@punkcast.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><div class="gmail_default">This is underway. We were able to arrange, at the last moment, sign interpreters for ASL and BSL. to complement our real time text captions.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><u></u>
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ISOC Live posted: "On May 28 2020, from 12:00-13:30 UTC, in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 21) the Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group (A11ySIG) will host a webinar “When rhetoric meets reality: Digital Accessibility, Persons With D" </span>
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