Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Post COVID accessibility

[Ann Zabaldo (zabaldo]

Hello all —

I haven’t had any experience in hybrid Zoom meetings but I have plenty of 
experience in hybrid meetings between a F2F meeting and people on a phone 
conference line.  It requires the facilitator to be more alert to looping 
people on the phone into the meeting esp. around Q&A time. One thing having 
people on a phone line does is to insure people who are together and people on 
the phone talk one at a time.   Of course, people on the phone can’t see charts 
or videos shown to the in-person meeting but you can rectify that by having all 
the a/v material distributed in advance such as powerpoint presentations so the 
phone folks can follow along.

Love the idea of intensive training for people a la the tech side.  Suggest 
minimum TWO people are trained so there’s always a backup.  Three even better.  

Best —

Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC
Ex. Dir. & Mbr. Board of Directors
Mid Atlantic Cohousing
Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
Falls Church, VA
202.546.4654
midatlantic [at] earthlink.net

When Isaac Newton stayed home to avoid the 1665 plague, he discovered the Laws 
of Gravity, Optics, and he invented Calculus

NOTE:  I’m switching back to using zabaldo [at] earthlink.net.  Many apologies!




> On Apr 25, 2021, at 2:15 PM, Fiona Frank <fionafrank [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am from Lancaster Cohousing (U.K.) but also my former employer , the
> Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, has a £50k two year funded project
> to develop good practice in hybrid events . We’re thinking of a
> professional community film person to train community organisations in
> streaming skills, a tech person in the zoom meeting working with the
> communal organisations and participants to make sure that there are proper
> links between the two spaces .... a screen in the room to bring the online
> participants into the ‘real’ space - but it’s work in progress and we’re
> just at the beginning at the moment ....
> Best wishes fiona Frank
> 
> 
> On Sunday, 25 April 2021, Hafidha Sofia <hafidhaao [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, Allison! I am! And Hybrid models need to be considered absolutely. I
>> am committed and doing a lot of learning and experimenting on hybrid
>> spaces... would be interested to plug in with whomever can help that be a
>> collective peer learning and sharing project for cohousing communities
>> across the continent / globe. As I mentioned before I have a professional
>> interest in this. I work for an online (social) movement school that was on
>> Zoom for years prior to the pandemic; and our focus is centering care and
>> access. I lead the tech support trainings and development.
>> 
>> Would love to know who do I talk to, who can I work with to further access
>> in cohousing post pandemic?
>> 
>> Hafidha
>> Songaia Cohousing
>> Washington State, USA
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Apr 25, 2021, at 10:55 AM, Diana Carroll <dianaecarroll [at] gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I haven't tried doing hybrid online/in person meetings specifically in
>> the
>>> context of accessibility (or cohousing) but I've done plenty in a
>> business
>>> context and it's pretty awful. My experience is that the online people
>> get
>>> left out because you have to specifically make time for them to talk due
>> to
>>> lag, because people speak more clearly automatically when online, and for
>>> several other reasons. I don't really have major hearing issues, but I
>> can
>>> rarely hear/understand/participate in hybrid meetings. I can only imagine
>>> it would be worse for people with legit hearing issues.
>>> 
>>> It is possible that with great care they would work, but so far, I
>> haven;t
>>> figured out how to make that happen.
>>> 
>>> Diana
>>> mosaic commons, MA
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 1:39 PM Allison Tom <allisonrtom [at] gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> This morning's discussion about how zoom makes meetings more accessible
>> to
>>>> Deaf people and people with hearing impairments and people (like me)
>> with
>>>> other disabilities makes me curious.
>>>> 
>>>> I've just realized that I've been assuming that post COVID we will all
>>>> return to in-person meetings and I'll lose access to events and
>>>> conversations I've been able to join over the last year.
>>>> 
>>>> Does it have to be that way? I think that trying to have a hybrid
>>>> in-person/zoom meeting could be really difficult. But has anyone tried
>> to
>>>> do that and had success?
>>>> 
>>>> Can we use the general awareness that some people who had been excluded
>>>> from in person events have gained access through zoom and other
>> technology
>>>> to get creative about how we can be included post COVID?
>>>> 
>>>> Is anyone else interested in this topic?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Allison Tom
>>>> Driftwood Village Cohousing
>>>> North Vancouver, BC
>>>> Moving in late summer 2021
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