[Governance] WEBCAST TODAY: When Rhetoric Meets Reality: Digital Accessibility, Persons With Disabilities, and COVID-19 @a11ySIG #GAAD2020

[Joly MacFie]

A transcript of this call is now available.
https://a11ysig.org/misc/2020.05.28_a11ySIG_when_rhetoric_meets_reality.pdf


Thanks to everyone who attended!

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 8:42 AM Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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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"
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> [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gaad2020>On *May
> 28 2020*, from *12:00-13:30 UTC*, in celebration of *Global Accessibility
> Awareness Day <https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/>* (May 21)
> <https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/>the* Internet Society
> Accessibility Special Interest Group <https://www.a11ysig.org/>*
> (A11ySIG) will host a webinar “*When rhetoric meets reality: Digital
> Accessibility, Persons With Disabilities and COVID-19
> <https://www.a11ysig.org/gaad2020/>*” This free webinar bring together
> digital accessibility experts and people with disabilities to discuss the
> digital accessibility outlook beyond COVID-19. The webinar aims to share
> and offer a variety of ideas from different disabilities and different
> parts of the world. SPEAKERS: *David Berman*, David Berman communications
> (Canada); *Naveed Haq*, Regional Director Infrastructure and
> Connectivity, Asia Pacific Internet Society (Pakistan); *Gunela Astbrink*,
> Vice President Accessibility SIG (Australia); *Fernando Botelho*, F123
> initiative (Brazil); *Judy Okite*, founder, Association for Accessibility
> and Equality (AAFE) (Kenya); *Peter Crosbie*, advocate for the autistic
> community (France); *Lidia Best*, Vice President, European Federation of
> Hard of Hearing (UK); *Manique Gunaratn*e, Manager, Specialized Training
> and Disability Resource Centre (Sri Lanka). MODERATOR: *Muhammad Shabbir
> Awan*, President, ISOC Accessibility SIG.
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> *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gaad2020
> <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gaad2020>* (Open Captions, ASL,
> BSL)
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> *REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-A11YSIG
> <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-A11YSIG>*
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> *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM: https://bit.ly/3bX0BM5 <https://bit.ly/3bX0BM5> *
> (Closed Captions, ASL, BSL)
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> *TWITTER: @A11ySIG #GAAD2020 <http://bit.ly/a11ysiggaad2020>*
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