[Live] WEBCAST TODAY: When Rhetoric Meets Reality: Digital Accessibility, Persons With Disabilities, and COVID-19 @a11ySIG #GAAD2020

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This is over. We were able to arrange, at the last moment, sign
interpreters for ASL and BSL. to complement our real time text captions.
However it do not go super well.

ISOC Live posted: "On May 28 2020, from 12:00-13:30 UTC, in celebration of
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 21) the Internet Society
Accessibility Special Interest Group (A11ySIG) will host a webinar “When
rhetoric meets reality: Digital Accessibility, Persons With D"

[image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gaad2020>On *May
28 2020*, from *12:00-13:30 UTC*, in celebration of *Global Accessibility
Awareness Day <https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/>* (May 21)
<https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/>the* Internet Society
Accessibility Special Interest Group <https://www.a11ysig.org/>* (A11ySIG)
will host a webinar “*When rhetoric meets reality: Digital Accessibility,
Persons With Disabilities and COVID-19 <https://www.a11ysig.org/gaad2020/>*”
This free webinar bring together digital accessibility experts and people
with disabilities to discuss the digital accessibility outlook beyond
COVID-19. The webinar aims to share and offer a variety of ideas from
different disabilities and different parts of the world. SPEAKERS: *David
Berman*, David Berman communications (Canada); *Naveed Haq*, Regional
Director Infrastructure and Connectivity, Asia Pacific Internet Society
(Pakistan); *Gunela Astbrink*, Vice President Accessibility SIG
(Australia); *Fernando Botelho*, F123 initiative (Brazil); *Judy Okite*,
founder, Association for Accessibility and Equality (AAFE) (Kenya); *Peter
Crosbie*, advocate for the autistic community (France); *Lidia Best*, Vice
President, European Federation of Hard of Hearing (UK); *Manique Gunaratn*e,
Manager, Specialized Training and Disability Resource Centre (Sri Lanka).
MODERATOR: *Muhammad Shabbir Awan*, President, ISOC Accessibility SIG.

*VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gaad2020
<http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gaad2020>* (Open Captions, ASL, BSL)

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

*PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM: https://bit.ly/3bX0BM5 <https://bit.ly/3bX0BM5> *
(Closed Captions, ASL, BSL)

*TWITTER: @A11ySIG #GAAD2020 <http://bit.ly/a11ysiggaad2020>*


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