Accessible Presenting

Overview

You should be able to present accessibly, following best practices. As with accessible document creation this ensures that everyone in your intended audience, including people with disabilities, can participate in what you are doing.

Best practices for Accessible presenting include

• Introduce and describe yourself
• Read entire quotes
• Verbally describe images and videos so that someone who cannot see the screen can understand them
• Presentation does not use ableist language
• Face the audience
• Use understandable terms: Avoid slang, colloquialisms. Understand your audience
• Speak slowly and clearly
• Repeat questions for clarity and member checking (even if on zoom)
• Turn on subtitles (including for videos shown)
• Provide slides to audience 48 hours ahead of time

Here is a video explaining accessible presenting best practices:

The 24-48 hour window supports better captioning; gives blind and visually impaired individuals the option to follow along on their machines, and supports anyone who needs alternative formatting or otherwise would benefit from slide access.

Typical Handin for this Competency

• Tell us which video you want to be assessed (from the class videos including discussion leads; and AT around us presentations)
• Timestamps for places in the video where any of the following best practices are demonstrated.
• Introduce and describe yourself
• Verbally describe images and videos so that someone who cannot see the screen can understand them
• Repeat questions for clarity and member checking (even if on zoom)
• Note that your presentation must have positive examples of at least seven of the ten best practices to be assessed as excellent on this competency.