Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Feedback requested: Accommodations for disabilities

[Allison Tom (allisonrtom]

Yes, we got pushback from some members when we wanted to invest in
microphones for our in-person meetings, but they made a huge difference
when we got them!

And our meetings are also much better attended on zoom than they were in
person.  Some people still say they can't wait to be able to meeting in
person again, but it's a real silver lining for me, for parents of young
children, for pregnant people, for people who go away for the summer.....

Allison

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 12:00 PM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> >  there are many other disabilities that make belonging to a cohousing
> community both more difficult and more important to people.
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> One that we discovered was more widespread than we realized is hearing in
> meetings. While some of us (me) complained that people weren’t speaking
> loud enough to be heard across the room, when we started using Zoom for
> meetings even more people mentioned the how nice it was to be able to hear
> everyone. One person said he didn’t attend meetings because he can’t hear
> anyone.
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