{"id":8838,"date":"2023-04-03T12:48:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T16:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inclusivescicomm.org\/?page_id=8838"},"modified":"2023-10-08T16:21:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T20:21:38","slug":"2023-symposium-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2023-inclusive-scicomm-symposium\/2023-symposium-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"2023 Symposium\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-2023-symposium\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-9174\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-9174\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2023-inclusive-scicomm-symposium\/\">About<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-9298\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-9298\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2023-inclusive-scicomm-symposium\/virtual-agenda\/\">Virtual Agenda<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-9299\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-9299\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2023-inclusive-scicomm-symposium\/2023-in-person-agenda\/\">In-Person Agenda<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-9034\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-9034\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2023-inclusive-scicomm-symposium\/2023-symposium-faqs\/\">Symposium FAQs<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-8890\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-8890\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2023-inclusive-scicomm-symposium\/2023-symposium-accessibility\/\">Symposium Accessibility<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-8892\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-8892\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2023-inclusive-scicomm-symposium\/2023-attendee-agreements\/\">Attendee Agreements<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-9263\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-9263\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/covid2023\/\">Covid Guidelines<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-9150\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-9150\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2023-inclusive-scicomm-symposium\/lodging-and-transportation\/\">Logistics<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-9030\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-9030\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2023-inclusive-scicomm-symposium\/2023-sponsors\/\">Sponsors<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-9163\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-9163\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2023-inclusive-scicomm-symposium\/2023-keynotes\/\">Keynotes<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-8891\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-8891\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2023-inclusive-scicomm-symposium\/2023-planning-committee\/\">Planning Committee<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-9047\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-9047\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/2023-inclusive-scicomm-symposium\/2023-community-cohort\/\">Community Cohort<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n<p>The Symposium aims to meaningfully include those who often experience exclusion at conferences, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">Attendees with visual, hearing, oral, cognitive, or motor impairments that affect how they interface with computers, pre-conference content, digital conference platforms, and\/or in-person activities<\/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 institutional support (i.e., funding)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To this end, we offer the following accommodations:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters will be provided, as well as a quiet room and auto-captioning for all Zoom Events. To request any additional accommodations, including<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Communication Access Realtime Translation <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CART), be sure to register by October 6, 2023. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>All ASL and CART requests must be made by October 6 for the October 19-21 events held at the University of Rhode Island. Registrants can make specific requests via the registration form and\/or by emailing <a href=\"mailto:mcduffie@uri.edu\">Katharine McDuffie<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>All virtual events will include live auto-captioning. Zoom Events will be used for virtual&nbsp; Symposium sessions and the keynote talks will be livestreamed on YouTube.<\/li>\n<li>Learn about the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/disability\/service-animals\/\">University of Rhode Island&#8217;s policy about service animals here.<\/a> If you plan to bring a service animal to the URI campus, please indicate this in your registration.<\/li>\n<li>A quiet room will be available during the in-person Symposium events for those who need some quiet time. Please respect this intention when using the quiet room.<\/li>\n<li>All presenters are expected to make their presentations as accessible as possible. This includes presenter-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>. Contact <a href=\"mailto:mcduffie@uri.edu\">mcduffie@uri.edu<\/a> to request a 2023 ISCS Presenter Guidance PDF.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>All keynote lectures will be recorded and archived on the <a style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\" 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><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>We are keeping ticket prices to a minimum and well below the true per person cost. If and when full support is secured for the Symposium, we will offer no-questions-asked fee waivers. We are not able to offer these waivers at this time, but those who wish to apply for a limited number of lodging or registration scholarships should <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfvJu7t2NRYWexREieUCM5CGor2oFyBVUhJrtyvJyzUHujgUw\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complete this form by September 18<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Virtual sessions will take place between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern to accommodate attendees from a wide range of time zones.<\/li>\n<li>We will provide regular program breaks to allow for rest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you require additional accommodations that are not listed above, please contact <a href=\"mailto:mcduffie@uri.edu\">Katharine McDuffie<\/a> at least 2 weeks prior to your participation and no later than October 6.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*We have gratefully borrowed much of the language above from the guidance written by Dr. Lauren Cagle for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arstmonline.org\/2020\/08\/31\/putting-accessibility-first-at-the-arstmnca-2020-virtual-preconference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ARSTM@NCA 2020 Virtual Pre-Conference on Social Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Symposium aims to meaningfully include those who often experience exclusion at conferences, including: Attendees with visual, hearing, oral, cognitive, or motor impairments that affect how they interface with computers, pre-conference content, digital conference platforms, and\/or in-person activities Attendees with caregiving responsibilities Attendees in different time zones Attendees without institutional support (i.e., funding) To this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2201,"featured_media":0,"parent":8836,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8838","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8838","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=8838"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9383,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8838\/revisions\/9383"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inclusivescicomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}