VIRTUAL EVENTS

The pandemic has allowed increased access to events for people with mobility difficulties, as many events continue to be virtual. However, online events can still be inaccessible for those with vision, hearing, and learning disabilities.

Recommendations for virtual event accessibility include:

• Include contact information on website or event page to request an access accommodation, and ensuring that it is convenient to request accommodations

• Promote current accessibility with accessibility symbols

• Enable live captioning

• Provide a sign language interpreter

• Provide visual/audio description ( for example, narration and captioning of the visual images in event)

• Insert alternative text on all images

• Provide accessible visual material: legible font style and size, image descriptions on presentation, blank space at the bottom of slides to ensure that live captions are not covered/ hard to read