<div dir="auto">This is really fantastic Judith, thank you.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 23 Mar 2021, 2:10 pm Judith Hellerstein via Governance, <<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Dear All,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Just a reminder to all to join Accessibility SIG
in what looks to be a great event that our President Muhammad
Shabbir has organized, titled: "Accessible Banking for the Blind
in the 21st Century: Experience Sharing from the Developed and
Developing Countries" <br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Date: 26th March 2021, 1300 to 1430 UTC</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUude-grj8sHN0sDBiOa6WN5uolHUTnqqgw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUude-grj8sHN0sDBiOa6WN5uolHUTnqqgw</a></span></u><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Many banks offer a number of digital services that
allow consumers to pay bills and shop online all from the
comfort of home without visiting your bank in person. However,
even in this day and age people with blindness in some countries
despite knowledge, skills and willingness, have to physically go
to the bank branch to do their business because of the
stubbornness of the bankers and/or their Ignorance to add
accessible digital technologies to their systems. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Join </span><span><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Internet
Society</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span><a href="https://www.accessibilitysig.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Accessibility
Special Interest Group</span></a></span><span> (</span><span><a href="https://www.a11ysig.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Accessibility-SIG</span></a></span><span>) in this interesting webinar where people with
blindness from developed and developing countries come together
to share their experiences with the banking sector in the 21st
century.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This
discussion is a part of a series of webinars that ISOC
Accessibility-SIG is organizing to spread the message of digital
accessibility for Persons With Disabilities (PWDs). The current
pandemic has highlighted the grave importance of increasing the
awareness of how to make digital spaces accessible. During this
current Pandemic, where everything is virtual many online
platforms, digital environments and even conferences are just
not accessible to people with disabilities. Through this series
of webinars, we hope to increase the awareness so that the
digital spaces can be made more accessible and inclusive to all
irrespective of the disability. Our goal is to make sure that
the Internet is really for everyone just as the ISOC tagline
states. In the next webinar of this series, we are bringing
experts and users from around different parts of the world
together to discuss the challenges that people with visual
impairment/blindness face particularly with regards to the
banking system.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The English
language webinar will be organized on Friday March 26th from
1300-1430 UTC on Zoom. The Speakers include: </span><span><br>
</span></p>
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<ul>
<li><font size="+1">Majid Khan, USA, <br>
</font></li>
<li><font size="+1">Vashkar Bhattacharjee, Bangladesh, <br>
</font></li>
<li><font size="+1">Abdul Qadir, Jordan, <br>
</font></li>
<li><font size="+1">Abdul Busuulwa, Uganda,<br>
</font></li>
<li><font size="+1">Imran Shaikh, Pakistan, <br>
</font></li>
<li><font size="+1">Gerry Ellis, Ireland, <br>
</font></li>
<li><font size="+1">Anatoliy Popko, Russia, </font></li>
</ul>
<font size="+1"><br>
Open discussion,</font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span>Closed captioning will be provided at this link: </span><span><a href="https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-A11YSIG" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-A11YSIG</span></a></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span>There will be a live webcast with open captions via
ISOC.LIVE which will be archived, along with a transcript and
any presentations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>REGISTER ON ZOOM </span><span><a href="http://bit.ly/a11ysig6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">http://bit.ly/a11ysig6</span></a><br>
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best Regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Judith Hellerstein</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Accessibility SIG Secretary</p>
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