A11ySIG – Commemorating the International Day of Persons With Disabilities: Building an Accessible Internet for Everyone

livestreamOn Thursday 3rd December 2020 at 2pm-3pm EST (19:00-20:00 UTC) the Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group (Accessibility SIG) will host a webinar ‘Commemorating the International Day of Persons With Disabilities: Building an Accessible Internet for Everyone‘. This event will bring ISOC leadership and community together to observe the International Day of Persons With Disabilities (IDPD). The theme for IDPD 2020 is “Building Back Better: toward a disability-inclusive, accessible and sustainable post COVID-19 World”.

SPEAKERS
Andrew Sullivan,Internet Society CEO and President, will be the keynote speaker at the webinar.
Gunela Astbrink, VP Accessibility SIG, will also introduce and present the 2nd edition of the Accessibility Toolkit

LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/idpd2020 (Captions, Sign language TBD*)

PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3pzszVX (Captions, Sign language TBD*)

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

TWITTER #IDPD2020 @a11ySIG @InternetSociety @SullivanISOC

SIMULCASTS
https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live

ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/idpd2020

*Sign Language Interpretation: Along with text captioning, sign language Interpretation shall be provided in one language which will be determined by the webinar registrant’s poll. Therefore, people who are deaf or hard of hearing are requested to let us know their preference by 23th November through the registration form so that we can make the necessary arrangements.