Skift Meetings Podcast

#72 John Sage: Rethinking Event Accessibility

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This episode features John Sage, president at Accessible Travel Solutions.

The conversation focuses on the accessibility of in-person events. Here are a few of the topics we cover:

  • The dangers of making accessibility a check-box exercise
  • Events should be responsible for ensuring accessibility is taken into account, not the attendees
  • The importance of training and customer service
  • Why it is important to remember than many people with disabilities do not self-identify this way
  • The four components of accessibility information and the three pillars of accessibility
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