[Chapter-delegates] e-Meeting on Disability awareness for Chapters - notes from meeting

[Gunela Astbrink]

We had an excellent discussion at the e-meeting on Disability awareness 
for Chapters with an update on the ISOC Community Grant for disability 
awareness provided.

Some of the main points of the discussion from Chapter members were:
- Need to raise awareness among Chapter members
- Expanding awareness to employers to hire people with disabilities
- Working with schools to ensure accessible ICT is provided
- Consideration of developing a catalogue of tools and methodology for 
practitioners - need to check existing tools
- Role of universal design with examples of value of real-time 
captioning for everyone
- Need for more accessible websites based on international guidelines
- ISOC's and Chapter's role in lobbying Government for improvements in 
accessibility

Key actions:
- Analysis of accessibility of Chapters' websites
- Analysis of accessibility of ISOC's website and consideration for 
improving accessibility

A transcript of the meeting is attached.

We will hold another e-meeting in early June on a date to be determined.

Thank you very much to those who participated, to Sabrina Wilmot for the 
logistics and to ISOC for supporting the captioning. A big thank you to 
Rudi Vansnick who volunteered to do an update on the accessibility of 
all Chapters' websites.

Regards,
Gunela
Internet Society of Australia

On 20/04/11 12:56 AM, Sabrina Wilmot wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> This is a just a friendly reminder for our upcoming e-meeting on e-Accessibility and Disability awareness for Chapters on 20th April at UTC 11.00.
>
> Please note that we will be using WebEx and are also offering streaming text. Access details can be found at http://isoc.org/wp/chapter-meetings/?p=1132
>
> If you have not signed up for the meeting yet you can do so by entering your name at: http://www.doodle.com/2wctzmcnhrirvedh
>
> For any questions please contact ISOC Chapter Support<chapter-support at isoc.org>.
>
> Thanks,
> Sabrina Wilmot
> Internet Society
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Gunela Astbrink<g.astbrink at gsa.com.au>
>> Date: 11 April 2011 08:10:50 GMT+01:00
>> To: 'Chapter Delegates'<chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
>> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] e-Meeting on Disability awareness for Chapters
>>
>> An e-meeting on e-Accessibility and Disability awareness for Chapters will be held on 20th April at UTC 11.00 using ISOC's webex facilities. Sabrina Wilmot has set up a doodle poll for us and I'd appreciate it if you could indicate that you will attend the e-meeting by going to: http://www.doodle.com/2wctzmcnhrirvedh
>>
>> Details and agenda are at: http://isoc.org/wp/chapter-meetings/?p=1132
>>
>> I will provide a background to the Community Grant project awarded to ISOC Australia including an introduction to the workshop on disability awareness as part of the Chapters workshop in Sri Lanka in May.
>>
>> Even if you will not be attending the Chapters workshop, I am very interested in your input and participation at the e-meeting.
>>
>> I'll be happy to provide any further details beforehand.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Gunela
>>
>> ---
>> Gunela Astbrink
>> Director, ISOC Australia
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