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Core webinar: Using Your Library's Virtual Presence to Reach Users with Disabilities

Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2021

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.

 

Description: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people with disabilities are more disconnected from their communities now than ever before. In order to effectively promote services to and increase awareness of your organization by users with disabilities, libraries should optimize their online presence and utilize accessible web-based practices to more equitably serve the needs of the disability community. In this webinar, Renee Grassi will share strategies to evaluate and leverage your library’s website, social media, and digital resources to connect with individuals with disabilities. Learn about innovative, easily replicable and cost-efficient ways to increase the accessibility of your online presence, reach new users, and more equitably fulfill the mission of your library.

Learning outcomes: 

• Participants will gain a basic understanding of WCAG 2.1 and how it applies to their library's digital presence.

• Participants will acquire at least five ideas for leveraging their Library's virtual presence to be more inclusive of people with disabilities in their content creation and delivery.

• Participants will take back to their home institutions at least three strategies for being a Digital Accessibility Advocate at their library.

Who should attend?  

Librarians, managers, and directors working in public, academic, special, and school libraries; technology specialists who manage library websites and/or create content; library staff who manage their library's social media channels and/or public catalog.

Presenter:

Author, blogger, speaker, and trainer Renee Grassi is a recognized library leader and advocate for people of all abilities. Renee considers herself an ally with people with disabilities and has presented nationally and internationally on accessibility in libraries. After ten years in Illinois public libraries, Renee relocated to Minnesota and now works as Youth Services Manager at Dakota County Library, where she created an Accessibility Project Team and led her library’s web accessibility remediation project.

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Registration Fees:  Core Member $43; Non-member $59; Group rate $129 

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to the following website: 

Using Your Library's Virtual Presence to Reach Users with Disabilities

Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org

For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, please contact freuland@ala.org

Posted on behalf of the Core Continuing Education Committee.