Accessible Events

Working with Faculty to Promote Access

The faculty hired to conduct trainings play a critical role in ensuring the accessibility of your event and, without guidance and support, can unknowingly create barriers to access. You can …
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Working with Faculty to Promote Access

The faculty hired to conduct trainings play a critical role in ensuring the accessibility of your event and, without guidance and support, can unknowingly create barriers to access. You can build that guidance and support into every step of your presenter outreach and engagement. In this course, you will learn how to expand your current contract template to include expectations regarding accessibility, include key information and guidelines on accessibility to include in your faculty orientations, and provide support to presenters and moderators before and during an event to help them actively promote an accessible training environment.
Providing Sign Language Interpretation During Events

Sign language interpretation is an essential part of ensuring our work to end domestic and sexual violence is equitable, accessible, and inclusive, specifically to Deaf people and communities. Demand for …
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Providing Sign Language Interpretation During Events

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Sign language interpretation is an essential part of ensuring our work to end domestic and sexual violence is equitable, accessible, and inclusive, specifically to Deaf people and communities. Demand for sign language interpretation is rising and expected to grow by almost 20 percent during the next decade, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This course is designed to help you provide qualified interpretation during in-person meetings and conferences, as well as live and on-demand virtual trainings, and embed interpretation in video-based resources.

Through videos with experts who use and coordinate interpretation services and step-by-step guidance, you will learn how to:

Determine the number of interpreters you need
Identify important qualifications you need in interpreters given the details of your engagement
Find qualified interpreters
Prepare interpreters before, during, and after your engagement
Communicate with Deaf participants throughout the process
Leveraging Registration to Ensure Access

Registration is a critical part of any successful event. It provides you with an opportunity to collect information from individuals who will be attending your event about their needs, including …
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Leveraging Registration to Ensure Access

Registration is a critical part of any successful event. It provides you with an opportunity to collect information from individuals who will be attending your event about their needs, including accommodation needs.This information will help you to proactively design an event that best meets the needs of your event’s attendees and it helps you meet the individual needs of participants. This course is designed to help you learnwhich survey/forms software is accessible, what questions to ask tounderstand the access needs of participants, how to ask those questions,and what to do with the information you gather.
Creating Accessible Materials

Technical assistance providers develop and distribute important resources used in the movement to end domestic and sexual violence. Ensuring the accessibility of the materials, whether print or electronic, depends on …
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Creating Accessible Materials

Technical assistance providers develop and distribute important resources used in the movement to end domestic and sexual violence. Ensuring the accessibility of the materials, whether print or electronic, depends on choices made throughout the development of the materials. This course is designed to provide you with the skills needed to develop accessible materials, including selecting the right font, ensuring an appropriate color contrast, and constructing a reading order that is accessible. It will also cover how to use the built-in access features of software, such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
Creating Accessible Online Engagements

Virtual trainings are cost-effective and accessible means of reaching people with disabilities and Deaf people because they can attend from anywhere. However, to ensure that people with disabilities and Deaf …
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Creating Accessible Online Engagements

Virtual trainings are cost-effective and accessible means of reaching people with disabilities and Deaf people because they can attend from anywhere. However, to ensure that people with disabilities and Deaf people can fully engage and benefit from the content, online engagements must be developed with accessibility in mind from the start. This course will help you ensure your virtual engagements areaccessible. You will learn how to select an accessible video-conferencing platform or learning management system, how to integrate access features into online training, and how to structure and staff online trainings to best support access.
Budgeting for Accessibility

When planning events, there are accommodations necessary to ensure that attendees with disabilities and Deaf attendees can fully access and engage with the training and technical assistance. Although many modifications …
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Budgeting for Accessibility

When planning events, there are accommodations necessary to ensure that attendees with disabilities and Deaf attendees can fully access and engage with the training and technical assistance. Although many modifications and accommodations have little-to-no cost, some accommodations do have costs associated with them and it is essential that you includes these expenses in your budget from the start. This course will provide you with information on average costs for common access features and accommodations; help you estimate access costs for your project; and provide guidance on how to include and justify these costs in grant applications.
Creating Accessible In-Person Meeting Spaces

Designing in-person trainings that are inclusive of and welcoming to people with disabilities requires thoughtful attention to the accessibility of your meeting space. From making sure that your meeting is …
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Creating Accessible In-Person Meeting Spaces

Designing in-person trainings that are inclusive of and welcoming to people with disabilities requires thoughtful attention to the accessibility of your meeting space. From making sure that your meeting is hosted in a city with direct flights to making your meeting location has accessible restrooms to the arrangement of the furniture in your meeting space, the decisions that you make will impact the accessibility of your event and the experiences of attendees with disabilities. This course is designed to help you select an accessible city and venue, design an accessible meeting room set up for the size and purpose of your event, and leverage signage and way-finding to help attendees navigate your meeting space with the greatest ease. Through interactive activities, short recorded lectures and opportunities to test your knowledge, you will be guided through steps you can take to ensure your venue and meeting rooms meet the needs of all of your participants.