Project to create easy-to-understand Covid-19 information worldwide

[kestrell]

Posted to the
A11yBoston Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/a11yBoston/?_af_cid=a11yBoston&_af=chapter
which had its virtual kick-off last night (I missed it due to being over-Zoomed).

Dear Boston Accessibility members,
Thank you to everyone who attended the a11y Boston Meetup on Thursday. We enjoyed meeting everyone and thought the conversation was great. We would also like to thank John Rochford again for his help kicking us off in the virtual environment.
For those who couldn’t make the Meetup, John shared his project to make COVID-19 information accessible around the world and is actively looking for people who would like to help with the project. Here is a link with more information about John’s project
Creating Easy-To-Understand COVID-19 Information Worldwide
https://www.volunteermatch.org/search/opp3302956.jsp
and if you would like to contact him his email is john.rochford@umassmed.edu.
We will hold the next Virtual Meetup in October.
We will announce the details once we have them finalized and we hope to see all the familiar faces and some new ones.

Comments

[duskpeterson]

Kestrell, I don't know whether you've seen this already, but apparently a historical study was released in August which suggests that Ancient Greek healing sanctuaries had accessibility ramps. There's coverage of it at the page I link to below; the page starts with links to articles, followed by a summary of what the links contain. I've linked to the cut, but in case you get sent up to the top of the page, the section is entitled, "New Research Explores Architecture, Accessibility in Ancient Greece."

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2020/0828#id_12

[kestrell]

Thanks, Dusk! I hadn't seen this, and you know if there is anything I love more than disability history, it's ancient/medeival disability history!

Pick a modality!

[jesse_the_k]

https://www.csd.org/coronavirus provides ASL info on the virus, including a video hotline for questions.