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Event Accessibility: More than ramps
Event accessibility is not just about captions or a ramp at the entrance. Accessibility is about full access. How are you making it easy for all of your attendees to participate fully in your event? This week we discuss our thoughts on accessibility in the events industry and some of our lessons learned.
Timestamps to relevant points within the episode:
00:00 - Intro
01:16 - #DisabilityDongles
03:40 - Accessibility is access
12:53 -Our lessons learned about captions
17:33 -Our lessons learned about geographic accessibility
23:47 - TL;DL recap
Key takeaways from this week's episode:
- Liz Jackson, disability advocate and strategist, teaches about #DisabilityDongles: solutions to a highly specific problem that isn't actually the solution to the problem.
- There's so many different ways we can talk about accessibility across an entire spectrum of people, abilities, modalities, and economic positions. Event organizers and producers just aren't thinking about this enough and instead use the ADA as their only basis for helping people access events.
- Even if you "only" have two or three people who have a direct benefit from a particular accessibility service, that service is still valuable and valid.
- Having captions for your virtual event isn't helpful if your captions are low quality (inaccurate) and hard to access.
- The same tools used to used at in person events do not necessarily translate in the same way as the tools that are available through live streaming. RESEARCH and adapt.
- In terms of geographical accessibility, are you presenting valuable content to people all around the world, or is it only designed for your specific region?
- How are you making your content/event easier for your international audience to consume and fully participate in?
Resources relevant to this episode
Liz Jackson: https://linktr.ee/eejackson
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Next episode: Codes of Conduct, what the heck are they for? And why do so many conferences use them wrong?
This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
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Event accessibility is not just about captions or a ramp at the entrance. Accessibility is about full access. How are you making it easy for all of your attendees to participate fully in your event? This week we discuss our thoughts on accessibility in the events industry and some of our lessons learned.
Timestamps to relevant points within the episode:
00:00 - Intro
01:16 - #DisabilityDongles
03:40 - Accessibility is access
12:53 -Our lessons learned about captions
17:33 -Our lessons learned about geographic accessibility
23:47 - TL;DL recap
Key takeaways from this week's episode:
- Liz Jackson, disability advocate and strategist, teaches about #DisabilityDongles: solutions to a highly specific problem that isn't actually the solution to the problem.
- There's so many different ways we can talk about accessibility across an entire spectrum of people, abilities, modalities, and economic positions. Event organizers and producers just aren't thinking about this enough and instead use the ADA as their only basis for helping people access events.
- Even if you "only" have two or three people who have a direct benefit from a particular accessibility service, that service is still valuable and valid.
- Having captions for your virtual event isn't helpful if your captions are low quality (inaccurate) and hard to access.
- The same tools used to used at in person events do not necessarily translate in the same way as the tools that are available through live streaming. RESEARCH and adapt.
- In terms of geographical accessibility, are you presenting valuable content to people all around the world, or is it only designed for your specific region?
- How are you making your content/event easier for your international audience to consume and fully participate in?
Resources relevant to this episode
Liz Jackson: https://linktr.ee/eejackson
If you found this episode helpful, please share it!
Visit our website at kickassconf.com
Follow us on LinkedIn
Next episode: Codes of Conduct, what the heck are they for? And why do so many conferences use them wrong?
This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy