{"id":8388,"date":"2021-08-20T11:17:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T15:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inclusivescicomm.org\/?page_id=8388"},"modified":"2024-09-11T10:49:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:49:25","slug":"2021symposium-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2021symposium-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Symposium Accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"2021 Symposium\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-2021-symposium\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-7877\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-7877\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2021symposium-about\/\">About<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-8391\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-8391\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2021symposium-accessibility\/\">Accessibility<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-8582\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-8582\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/iscs-pre-conference\/\">Pre-Conference Sessions<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-8643\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-8643\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2021symposium-attendee-agreements\/\">Attendee Agreements<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-8545\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-8545\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/symposium-keynotes\/\">Keynotes<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-8405\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-8405\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/iscs21community-cohort\/\">Community Cohort<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-8385\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-8385\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2021symposium-exhibitors\/\">Exhibitors<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-7614\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-7614\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2021-symposium-planning-committee\/\">2021 Planning Committee<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-7823\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-7823\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/sponsors-2021\/\">Sponsors<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n<h2>View the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1568\/ISCS21-Agenda-at-a-Glance-1.pdf\">ISCS21 Agenda at a Glance<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">for screen readers<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>View the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1568\/ISCS-21-Platform-User-Guide.pdf\">ISCS 21 Platform User Guide<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The Symposium aims to meaningfully include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">Disabled attendees with visual, oral, cognitive, or motor impairments that affect how they interface with computers, pre-conference content, and digital conference platforms<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">Attendees with caregiving responsibilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">Attendees in different time zones<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">Attendees without material institutional support (i.e., funding)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To these ends, the Symposium had ASL interpreters and auto-captioning for keynote talks and automated captioning at most events. As part of the registration process, attendees were asked to indicate requests for live captioning and\/or ASL interpreting.<\/p>\n<p>All speakers were expected to make their presentations as accessible as possible. This includes speaker-provided closed captioning for pre-recorded presentations, verbal descriptions of images during recorded and live presentations, and a high-contrast color scheme for slides. For more information on how to make your presentation accessible, see the excellent guidance provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/u.osu.edu\/composingaccess\/before-the-presentation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Composing Access<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Send a note to symposium@metcalfinstitute.org to request a 2021 ISCS Presenter Guidance PDF.<\/p>\n<p>A tip sheet was available for all Symposium participants in advance to explain the use of our conference platform, vFairs, to ensure the most beneficial experience.<\/p>\n<p>Symposium programming began at 11:00 a.m. and conclude by 6:45 p.m. EDT to make the timing more manageable for attendees across time zones.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">All keynote lectures were recorded and archived on the <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_user_MetcalfInstitute&amp;d=DwMDaQ&amp;c=dWz0sRZOjEnYSN4E4J0dug&amp;r=LpIXQHnMch6AW30dVEAgKg&amp;m=x30lzCQ0cPQxe-Ln3Bsc_MHbwITMNs8Uwj9oBt14UfI&amp;s=c56hOnqL0TjuTFGRqNrxSeaJHkwpixagENa72rqUyPY&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u%3Dhttps-3A__www.youtube.com_user_MetcalfInstitute%26d%3DDwMDaQ%26c%3DdWz0sRZOjEnYSN4E4J0dug%26r%3DLpIXQHnMch6AW30dVEAgKg%26m%3Dx30lzCQ0cPQxe-Ln3Bsc_MHbwITMNs8Uwj9oBt14UfI%26s%3Dc56hOnqL0TjuTFGRqNrxSeaJHkwpixagENa72rqUyPY%26e%3D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632427860989000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH6ID4ng0DI0ASZHhkLfHUJyx8ejg\">Metcalf Institute YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Some on-demand content was available on the symposium platform and viewable before attendees joined those sessions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The symposium platform will remain live and available to registrants until November 16.<\/p>\n<p>*We have gratefully borrowed much of the language above from the guidance written by Dr. Lauren Cagle for the ARSTM@NCA 2020 Virtual Pre-Conference on Social Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View the ISCS21 Agenda at a Glancefor screen readers View the ISCS 21 Platform User Guide The Symposium aims to meaningfully include: Disabled attendees with visual, oral, cognitive, or motor impairments that affect how they interface with computers, pre-conference content, and digital conference platforms Attendees with caregiving responsibilities Attendees in different time zones Attendees without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2201,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8388","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8388"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8773,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8388\/revisions\/8773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}