Disabled Association Pros & Accessibility Allies

My APIEventProfs colleague, Jolene Jang, posted this and I offer it here. Livestreamed and at no charge, it may be worth attending.

There is, when RSVPing, a place for questions. My question was about disability inclusion and how it is often omitted from discussions and accommodations not willing to be made for employment. Interestingly it did not state if it were to be an accessible event. Yes, I wrote to ask.

Joan

I noted the same, I wrote to ask as well.

My APIEventProfs colleague, Jolene Jang, posted this and I offer it here. Livestreamed and at no charge, it may be worth attending.

There is, when RSVPing, a place for questions. My question was about disability inclusion and how it is often omitted from discussions and accommodations not willing to be made for employment. Interestingly it did not state if it were to be an accessible event. Yes, I wrote to ask.

Joan

Their response (one is ironically laughable and I've shared to the head of accessibility at CNBC):

We do include accessibility information in our confirmation email, but your point is well taken and we will look into adding more information on our registration page as well.  CNBC Events provides captioning for online events. There will be two equivalent ways to view the Equity & Opportunity Livestream in 2024 – on YouTube and on CNBC.com. YouTube will have built-in live captions and CNBC.com will have stream text style captions.

When I asked for clarification on the captions:

YouTube will provide live AI captions.

On a CNBC Equity & Opportunity program... in 2024.

We all have a lot of work to do.

HINT: Always provide clear information what accessibility you have included in your event. If you haven't built it in, provide what you can provide if asked by what date. Telling people in a confirmation email is after the fact..(this is not they way)

I noted the same, I wrote to ask as well.

My APIEventProfs colleague, Jolene Jang, posted this and I offer it here. Livestreamed and at no charge, it may be worth attending.

There is, when RSVPing, a place for questions. My question was about disability inclusion and how it is often omitted from discussions and accommodations not willing to be made for employment. Interestingly it did not state if it were to be an accessible event. Yes, I wrote to ask.

Joan

Update:

CART captions via StreamText for live on their app (have to subscribe)
AI on YouTube

They mistakenly wrote two equivalent methods, opportunity to grow awareness.

But they will have accurate/usable and AI captions across two different content platforms. 

Six email exchanges to get to this. This is what we call a disability tax. An undue burden placed on disabled people in an attempt to understand if they will be provided access.

Their response (one is ironically laughable and I've shared to the head of accessibility at CNBC):

We do include accessibility information in our confirmation email, but your point is well taken and we will look into adding more information on our registration page as well.  CNBC Events provides captioning for online events. There will be two equivalent ways to view the Equity & Opportunity Livestream in 2024 – on YouTube and on CNBC.com. YouTube will have built-in live captions and CNBC.com will have stream text style captions.

When I asked for clarification on the captions:

YouTube will provide live AI captions.

On a CNBC Equity & Opportunity program... in 2024.

We all have a lot of work to do.

HINT: Always provide clear information what accessibility you have included in your event. If you haven't built it in, provide what you can provide if asked by what date. Telling people in a confirmation email is after the fact..(this is not they way)

I noted the same, I wrote to ask as well.

My APIEventProfs colleague, Jolene Jang, posted this and I offer it here. Livestreamed and at no charge, it may be worth attending.

There is, when RSVPing, a place for questions. My question was about disability inclusion and how it is often omitted from discussions and accommodations not willing to be made for employment. Interestingly it did not state if it were to be an accessible event. Yes, I wrote to ask.

Joan

Update from my colleague at NBC Universal:

They will make sure that what's included is clear and to differentiate AI vs CART
To list accommodations that are available by request on the registration form

And they're trying to sort out how to do ASL for a livestream because they didn't have anyone planned to be in person as they will be on a split feed.

I referred them to a colleague at Deaf-Friendly Consulting for how to do ASL livestream/remote/etc..  and to another colleague that provides live and remote ASL at the Workplace Accessibility Group. 

Update:

CART captions via StreamText for live on their app (have to subscribe)
AI on YouTube

They mistakenly wrote two equivalent methods, opportunity to grow awareness.

But they will have accurate/usable and AI captions across two different content platforms. 

Six email exchanges to get to this. This is what we call a disability tax. An undue burden placed on disabled people in an attempt to understand if they will be provided access.

Their response (one is ironically laughable and I've shared to the head of accessibility at CNBC):

We do include accessibility information in our confirmation email, but your point is well taken and we will look into adding more information on our registration page as well.  CNBC Events provides captioning for online events. There will be two equivalent ways to view the Equity & Opportunity Livestream in 2024 – on YouTube and on CNBC.com. YouTube will have built-in live captions and CNBC.com will have stream text style captions.

When I asked for clarification on the captions:

YouTube will provide live AI captions.

On a CNBC Equity & Opportunity program... in 2024.

We all have a lot of work to do.

HINT: Always provide clear information what accessibility you have included in your event. If you haven't built it in, provide what you can provide if asked by what date. Telling people in a confirmation email is after the fact..(this is not they way)

I noted the same, I wrote to ask as well.

My APIEventProfs colleague, Jolene Jang, posted this and I offer it here. Livestreamed and at no charge, it may be worth attending.

There is, when RSVPing, a place for questions. My question was about disability inclusion and how it is often omitted from discussions and accommodations not willing to be made for employment. Interestingly it did not state if it were to be an accessible event. Yes, I wrote to ask.

Joan

Thank you, @Samantha Evans, ICE-CCP, CAE, for all you did to both call awareness here and to act to ensure they made this more accessible.

It continues to be stunning to me - tho' it should not be right? - that the knowledge is so limited when the resources are there.

On to your post about what is and isn't working. For that, too, gratitude.

Joan

Update from my colleague at NBC Universal:

They will make sure that what's included is clear and to differentiate AI vs CART
To list accommodations that are available by request on the registration form

And they're trying to sort out how to do ASL for a livestream because they didn't have anyone planned to be in person as they will be on a split feed.

I referred them to a colleague at Deaf-Friendly Consulting for how to do ASL livestream/remote/etc..  and to another colleague that provides live and remote ASL at the Workplace Accessibility Group. 

Update:

CART captions via StreamText for live on their app (have to subscribe)
AI on YouTube

They mistakenly wrote two equivalent methods, opportunity to grow awareness.

But they will have accurate/usable and AI captions across two different content platforms. 

Six email exchanges to get to this. This is what we call a disability tax. An undue burden placed on disabled people in an attempt to understand if they will be provided access.

Their response (one is ironically laughable and I've shared to the head of accessibility at CNBC):

We do include accessibility information in our confirmation email, but your point is well taken and we will look into adding more information on our registration page as well.  CNBC Events provides captioning for online events. There will be two equivalent ways to view the Equity & Opportunity Livestream in 2024 – on YouTube and on CNBC.com. YouTube will have built-in live captions and CNBC.com will have stream text style captions.

When I asked for clarification on the captions:

YouTube will provide live AI captions.

On a CNBC Equity & Opportunity program... in 2024.

We all have a lot of work to do.

HINT: Always provide clear information what accessibility you have included in your event. If you haven't built it in, provide what you can provide if asked by what date. Telling people in a confirmation email is after the fact..(this is not they way)

I noted the same, I wrote to ask as well.

My APIEventProfs colleague, Jolene Jang, posted this and I offer it here. Livestreamed and at no charge, it may be worth attending.

There is, when RSVPing, a place for questions. My question was about disability inclusion and how it is often omitted from discussions and accommodations not willing to be made for employment. Interestingly it did not state if it were to be an accessible event. Yes, I wrote to ask.

Joan