#NDEAM #ODEP
On Friday October 16 at 2pm ET, the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) is celebrating #NDEAM with a webinar covering ODEP's 25-year history and celebrating the record high number of employed individuals with disabilities. Register here:
RantWoman also offers a couple technology related asides:
--Thinking of universal need for accessibility, RantWoman celebrates the evolution of accessibility for all the major video conferencing platforms: Zoom, Teams, Google Meet and in particular WebEx, the platform used for this webinar.
RantWoman remembers a time when the WebEx brand sent much smarter blind people thant rantWoman just around the bend because of accessibility issues. RantWoman mentioned this when a major governmental buyer was considering adopting WebEx. RantWoman does not know whether her comments helped the governmental buyer include accessibility as a REQUIREMENT in their decision-making but RantWoman appreciates progress. There are still a few things RantWoman has not figured out in keyboard only mode. Maybe before the webinar RantWoman will check online for help. Maybe. Or maybe RantWoman will just wing it as she has been able to do so far.
--Put the word dongle into the search bar. RantWoman thinks of the almost unreadable dongles she dealt with as campus tech support during grad school every time she gets a code accessible to her on her phone or email. The short version: accessibility is a bridge people keep building.
