Mastodawn

Just attended a seminar via Zoom and my alma mater has completely tossed the accessibility lessons I & @ucaccessnow taught them.

The ones that are most applicable here:

- Hire a human captioner. Failing a human captioner, at least remember to enable the auto-captions (craptions).

- Do a short tech rehearsal to make sure the mic placement is ideal for the presenter's height and usual stance. In this case the speaker had a different accent in English and the craptions would have needed all the

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Megan Lynch (she/her)

help they could get. Good mic placement makes sure that folks online as well as folks in the room who are hard-of-hearing or are used to another accent can get the best audio possible to work with.

- Don't treat those attending online as some lesser form of attendee - if you throw it open to Q & A, make sure you're making it possible for those online also to submit questions.

#Ableism #AcademicAbleism #UCAccessNow #Accessibility