[Air-L] WEBCAST TODAY: A11yVR – Paradigm Shifts in Interacting With Virtual Environments: A Focus on Deaf People – Wendy Dannels

[Joly MacFie]

This is underway. Quite a complicated set up. Presenter is using ASL via
video in Hubs, and in a Zoom call with interpreters for two way
communication.

ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday November 11 2021 at 19:00 EDT / 00:00 UTC /
09:00 JST (Wed) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts 'Paradigm Shifts in
Interacting With Virtual Environments: A Focus on Deaf People' on Mozilla
Hubs. Professor Wendy Dannels of the XR Accessibility S"


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<https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr19>On *Thursday
November 11 2021* at *19:00 EDT / 00:00 UTC / 09:00 JST* (Wed) the
*Accessibility
VR Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/A11yVR/>* hosts '*Paradigm Shifts in
Interacting With Virtual Environments: A Focus on Deaf People
<https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/281355381/>*' on Mozilla Hubs. *Professor
Wendy Dannels <https://www.rit.edu/directory/wadnet-wendy-dannels>* of the
XR Accessibility Solutions Laboratory at *Rochester Institute of Technology
<https://www.rit.edu/ntid/>* will will point to some challenges and
opportunities deaf individuals using American Sign Language as their
primary language have faced when navigating and interacting with others
through Mozilla Hubs. She will discuss ideas on making VR social platforms
more inclusive including working with host and access service providers
such as ASL interpreters.

The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the *Internet
Society Accessibility SIG <https://a11ySIG.org>* (A11ySIG).

*LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr19
<https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr19> *(open captions / ASL)

*PARTICIPATE VIA MOZILLA HUBS:
https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/281355381/
<https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/281355381/>* (open captions / ASL)

*REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr
<https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr>*

*TWITTER: @a11yvr <http://bit.ly/A11yVR>  #xrasl #ritntid @wdannells
@RITtigers #a11y #XR #VR @IAAPOrg @MozillaHubs #captioned*

*SIMULCASTS* (open captions / ASL)
*https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>*
*https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>*
*https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>*
*https://youtu.be/by-JkpU-AXI <https://youtu.be/by-JkpU-AXI> *(monitored
for comments)
*https://www.facebook.com/DeafScience
<https://www.facebook.com/DeafScience> *(maybe)

*ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/a11yvr19
<https://archive.org/details/a11yvr19>*

*ACCREDITATION - *All A11yVR meetups are pre-approved for *IAAP Continuing
Accessibility Education Credits (CAEC)
<https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/certification-frequently-asked-questions>.*

*SPONSOR: Equal Entry <https://equalentry.com/>*

*Permalink*
https://isoc.live/14720/


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