Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Post COVID accessibility

[Fiona Frank (fionafrank]

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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