Making Accessibility Real: Guidelines for Meetings, Conferences and Gatherings
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Summary
This working document provides strategies for making meetings and conferences truly accessible. It includes guidelines for ensuring that appropriate accommodations are identified and provided with respect to meeting spaces and materials, communication, room and board, and transportation. The document also provides suggestions for responding to specific functional issues, as well as sample documents and a list of additional resources.
Topics
Types/Tools
Populations
Sources
HCBS Resource Network
Programs/Initiatives
States
Keywords
accessible meetings; speaker's guidelines; consumer guidelines; planning meetings; conferences; hotels; presentations; appropriate
accommodations; identifying accessibility needs
accommodations; identifying accessibility needs
Contact
Brenda
Vitale
vitaleb@bc.edu