HI All,

Excited to announce the first of several events organized by members of the Accessibility SIG. This first event will take place on January 17 2021 and is part of our ongoing series of Accessible meetings during COVID

On Sunday 17 January 2021 at 14:30-16:00 UTC the Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group (Accessibility SIG) will convene a meeting with the theme ‘Digital Accessibility Awareness in times of Covid-19‘. All are invited!  Please register at http://bit.ly/a11ysigcovid  Do not worry that they calendar invite you get in the email after registering is the wrong date, we will be fixing this shortly.

Please also let us know via email if you desire Sign Language interpretation and if so what language you prefer. If we hear from people in the next week we can add interpretation but otherwise we will just have English Captioning.

AGENDA
1. Mr. Praveen Misra (India) – Overview of Digital Accessibility and Prominence & Challenges in times of Covid19
2. Ms. Judith Hellerstein (US) – Secretary A11YSIG – Overview of A11ySIG and outreach activities that can be undertaken
3. Ms. Kelly Colman (US) – Accessibility in Home Health Care and the impacts of SDOH” (social determinants of health)
4. Dr. Emmanuelle Gutierrez (Spain) Artificial Intelligence and the importance of accessibility training
5. Mr. Kindy Vereus MONTREUIL (Haïti) – Digital Accessibility between Necessity and Opportunity
6. Discussion & Question Answer

PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM http://bit.ly/a11ysigcovid (Closed Captions)

LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/covid+a11y (Open Captions)

REAL TIME TEXT https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-A11YSIG

TWITTER #accessibility #Covid19  @a11ySIG @InternetSociety #a11y

SIMULCASTS
https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive

Best,

Judith Hellerstein

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