This is underway. We were able to arrange, at the last moment, sign interpreters for ASL and BSL. to complement our real time text captions. ISOC Live posted: "On May 28 2020, from 12:00-13:30 UTC, in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 21) the Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group (A11ySIG) will host a webinar “When rhetoric meets reality: Digital Accessibility, Persons With D" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gaad2020>On *May 28 2020*, from *12:00-13:30 UTC*, in celebration of *Global Accessibility Awareness Day <https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/>* (May 21) <https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/>the* Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group <https://www.a11ysig.org/>* (A11ySIG) will host a webinar “*When rhetoric meets reality: Digital Accessibility, Persons With Disabilities and COVID-19 <https://www.a11ysig.org/gaad2020/>*” This free webinar bring together digital accessibility experts and people with disabilities to discuss the digital accessibility outlook beyond COVID-19. The webinar aims to share and offer a variety of ideas from different disabilities and different parts of the world. SPEAKERS: *David Berman*, David Berman communications (Canada); *Naveed Haq*, Regional Director Infrastructure and Connectivity, Asia Pacific Internet Society (Pakistan); *Gunela Astbrink*, Vice President Accessibility SIG (Australia); *Fernando Botelho*, F123 initiative (Brazil); *Judy Okite*, founder, Association for Accessibility and Equality (AAFE) (Kenya); *Peter Crosbie*, advocate for the autistic community (France); *Lidia Best*, Vice President, European Federation of Hard of Hearing (UK); *Manique Gunaratn*e, Manager, Specialized Training and Disability Resource Centre (Sri Lanka). MODERATOR: *Muhammad Shabbir Awan*, President, ISOC Accessibility SIG. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gaad2020 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gaad2020>* (Open Captions, ASL, BSL) *REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-A11YSIG <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-A11YSIG>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM: https://bit.ly/3bX0BM5 <https://bit.ly/3bX0BM5> * (Closed Captions, ASL, BSL) *TWITTER: @A11ySIG #GAAD2020 <http://bit.ly/a11ysiggaad2020>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12121/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -