Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Post COVID accessibility

[Beth Jennings (bethanymjennings]

There are some options that could caption the meeting in-person. For
example, if you open up presentation mode in PowerPoint, it automatically
generates captions. They aren’t as accurate as a professional captioner
(obvs) but does a decent job.

Also, in the US people can get a free phone that connects to either a live
captioner or auto-generated captions. Might be useful for some in your
communities.
https://www.hearingloss.org/hearing-help/technology/phones-mobile-devices/

On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 12:15 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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Thanks,

*Beth Jennings* (she/they)
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