In this virtual conversation, Blind Accessibility Advocate Chancey Fleet and Artist Taeyoon Choi teach us about network building and activism opportunities. Now that we're more online, how can we seize this moment to build more inclusive, accessible communication and modes of connection? What tools and best practices can we activate in the current moment, and continue to prioritize in our programming moving forward? This talk was recorded on April 15. 

About the Speakers

Chancey Fleet is a Brooklyn-based accessibility advocate, coordinates technology education programs at the New York Public Library’s Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. Chancey was recognized as a 2017 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. She writes and presents to disability rights groups, policy-makers, and professionals about the intersections of disability and technology. During her fellowship, she plans to advance public understanding of and explore best practices for visual interpreter services as well as other technologies for accessibility whose implications resonate with the broader global conversations about digital equity, data ethics, and privacy. She proudly serves as the Vice President of the National Federation of the Blind of New York.

Taeyoon Choi is an artist, educator, and activist based in New York and Seoul. His art practice involves performance, electronics, drawings, and installations that form the basis for storytelling in public spaces. He co-founded the School for Poetic Computation where he continues to organize sessions and teach classes.

Resources

• Rooted in Rights
• Guide: Hosting Accessible Online Meetings
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• Blind Inclusivity Resources
• How to Build a Phone Tree
• Giving Voice by Meryl Alper
• Y Combinator: I’m a Software Engineer Going Blind -- How Should I Prepare?
• Consentful Tech Project
• NYC Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup Group
• COVID-19 is reshaping the future of work for people with disabilities by Shane Kanady

Taeyoon's recommendations:

• Staying with the Trouble by Donna Haraway
• You Can Learn Something From The People Of Wuhan by Tricia Wang
• Resisting the Racist Game on ArtAsiaPacific
• "How to Deal with Racism" by Taeyoon Choi on I Weigh
• Earth, "Saewol, COVID-19 and the lack of mourning" 세월호와 코로나19, 애도의 부재

Chancey's recommendations:

• Her Twitter thread on alt-text
• Crip Camp on Netflix