Building Empathy with Stakeholders to Drive Accessibility: Simon Miner

How can we help leaders really "get" the need for digital accessibility? In this session, we will discuss proven methods for building support with stakeholders for your accessibility program. We’ll explore tools like the Site Unseen browser extension that you can use to foster appreciation for the challenges disabled users may face on your organization's websites.

We’ll talk about how to align your accessibility goals with your institution's culture and existing processes in ways that affect real change, and we’ll cover listening and conversational techniques that cultivate trust with upper management and coworkers.

You’ll come away from this presentation with strategies you can start using immediately to constructively engage with colleagues and leaders to advance accessibility in your organization.

Thanks to our sponsors:

• GoDaddy
• Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker
• Your Business here! Learn about sponsorship

Event Details:
This meetup will be held at U.S. 5 PM Pacific which is 7 PM U.S. Central, and 10 AM AEST and 5:30 AM IST the next day.

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Accessibility & Accommodations:
This meetup will be held virtually over Zoom and live captioned.

We're working to secure sponsors so that we can offer ASL interpretation.

All are welcome to attend. If you need specific accommodations to make this meetup work for you, please contact an organizer via the messaging feature in Meetup or email meetup (at) equalizedigital.com and we will try our best to accommodate you.

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