On Tuesday 18th of October, three experienced AbilityNet accessibility and innovation consultants shared their lived experience of disabilities:
- Adi Latif, Accessibility Consultant will share his experiences of being blind
- Ghizzi Dunlop, Digital Accessibility Consultant at AbilityNet and Learning Technologist at the University of the West of England will share her experience with hearing barriers
- Adam Tweed, Innovation Consultant for Education and Workplace, will share his experience of mental health and the ways adaptations can remove barriers.
The webinar focussed on the experience of how language, organisational culture and adaptive equipment can make a huge difference in removing the barriers in the workplace to the entire workforce, including disabled people.
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Don't disable me: how language, organisational culture and equipment enables inclusion - AbilityNet webinar
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"Don’t disable me": how language, organisational
culture and equipment enables inclusion.
Adam Tweed, Innovation Consultant for Education and Workplace
Adi Latif, Accessibility Consultant
Ghizzi Dunlop, Digital Accessibility Consultant and Learning Technologist
Amy Low, Service Delivery Director
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Welcome
• Live captions from MyClearText – switch on via control panel CC
• Additional captions: www.streamtext.net/player?event=AbilityNet
• Slides are available: www.slideshare.net/abilitynet
• Shownotes, transcript and recording:
www.abilitynet.org.uk/DDM2
• Use the Q&A window to ask questions we will also use
Slido.com ID: #632 780
• Feedback form for post-webinar questions
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About AbilityNet
• AbilityNet are a charity that use technology to help transform the
lives of disabled people, at home, at work and in education.
• Accessibility testing and training
• Workplace Consultancy and Assessments
• Education Consultancy and DSA Assessments
• Free services – IT and accessibility help at home and online
resources, blogs, events and webinars
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Presenters
Ghizzi Dunlop
Learning Technologist
Adam Tweed
Innovation Consultant
Adi Latif
Accessibility Consultant
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Any Questions?
slido.com: 632 780
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Question (1): Language
Are there
any language
do’s or don’ts
you might
have?
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Question (2): Culture
What are examples
of a one-size-fits-
all approach to
culture that has
been problematic?
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Question (3): Culture
What are the
benefits of diverse
teams?
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Question (4): Culture
How much
can an employer
ask you about
what you need
to succeed?
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Question (5): Culture
How do you speak
to colleagues
about what you
need?
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Question (6): Tech
What sort of
technologies do
you find useful?
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Question (7): Web/apps
What are the
challenges that
you face in
engaging with
online platforms?
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Any Questions? (before break)
slido.com: 632 780
15. Audience Q&A Session
ⓘ Start presenting to display the audience questions on this slide.
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• Removing mental health barriers - 02 November
• Removing physical barriers - 20 October
• Removing hearing barriers – recordings available
• Removing visual barriers - recordings available
• Removing neurodiversity barriers - recordings available
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Don't Disable Me: Lived Experience training
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• AbilityNet newsletter: abilitynet.org.uk/newsletter
• Accessibility services: abilitynet.org.uk/workplace
• It's Get Online week, and there are lots of ideas on our blog about the theme
#TryOneThing: abilitynet.org.uk/TryOneThing
• Next webinars: abilitynet.org.uk/webinars
• 1 Nov: Accessibility Insights with Spotify
Thank you
Hinweis der Redaktion
“So, welcome everyone! just to go through a few bits of housekeeping. “We have live captions provided today by MyClearText –you can turn on the captions using the CC option on the control panel.
We also have BSL interpreters. Their names are on as *X and *Y if you can find them and pin them.
Additional captions available via streamtext.net/player?event=AbilityNet
Slides are available at Slideshare.net/abilitynet and also on our website abilitynet.org.uk/Dont-Disable-Me
If you have any technical issues and you need to leave early don't worry you’ll receive an email in a couple of days’ time with the recording, transcript and slides.”
“Depending on how you joined the webinar, you’ll find a Q&A window. If you want to ask the panel any Qs, do drop those in the Q&A area for them to address. They will do after today’s session in a follow up blog on our website at /Dont-Disable-Me.” We will also be using Slido for Q&A as an anonymous alternative.
“We also have a feedback survey you’ll be directed to at the end, which invites you to tell us about any future topics you’d like us to cover in our webinars, so please do complete that if you can.“
I will now handover to Amy to run through what we will be doing today!
Teresa:
A little bit about AbilityNet, who we are and what we do:
We are a technology charity whose vision is a digital world accessible to all.
We work towards this vision via a number of activities:
Accessibility testing and training
Workplace Consultancy and Assessments
Education Consultancy and DSA Assessments
Free services – through IT and accessibility help at home and online resources, blogs, events and webinars
We know that accessibility can feel like a complicated topic, and certainly when I joined AbilityNet it felt like a huge amount to learn but actually when you get into it it becomes more and more straightforward and easy to get right.
Over to Adam to tell you about what we will be covering today.
Intro selves and provide audio description.
Just a reminder
So this is the section where we are going to be putting up Slido to invite people to ask questions anonymously. We know that people often feel awkward about saying the wrong thing and this is 100% safe space to raise anything you would like to chat about. We may not have time to answer everything but get through as many as we can and try and sweep up others in the summary when we share the recording in a few days time.
So before we go, I just wanted to share the dates for the more indepth training sessions we will be running . Hope to see some of you for those and we have some discount codes for bundles of courses.
Right I think that looks like 2pm is upon us! If you would like to keep up with AbilityNet and what we are doing, please sign up for our newsletter and we have a couple of other great webinars coming up. I don’t think the registration pages are quite up yet but if you sign up for newsletter you will be notified when you can book on.