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Accessible online author events
Author Ever Dundas shares advice on making online author events more accessible
Edinburgh-based author, Ever Dundas, shares advice, tips and points to consider when looking to make online author readings and events more accessible.
Ever mentions a number of different resources in her video and has provided links so you can investigate for yourself:
- C(this link will open in a new window)rip Collective Facebook group(this link will open in a new window) (a Facebook group for disabled and chronically ill people working in the publishing industry in the UK)
- Zoom accessibility(this link will open in a new window)
- Otter speech to text transcription and translation(this link will open in a new window)
- Dyslexia-friendly Style Guide(this link will open in a new window)
- The National Registers of Communication Professionals Working with Deaf and Deafblind People(this link will open in a new window)
- Stagetext subtitling services(this link will open in a new window)
- Website Accessibility for museums(this link will open in a new window) (but more widely applicable)
- Not Going Back to Normal: disabled artists manifesto(this link will open in a new window)
- Why disabled artists can’t go back to normal (this link will open in a new window)Scotsman article
