The Museum of Science and Perkins School for the Blind team up for this program highlighting how end-to-end accessibility is crucial for civic engagement.

Thursday, April 17 at 7:00 pm

Register online for virtual or in-person event. The virtual link will be provided later.

In a true democracy, everyone can participate equally. Explore how end-to-end accessibility — of media, voting processes and more — is essential for full civic participation of people with disabilities.

How might — and should — systems enable::

• People with blindness / low vision to engage with political information from maps/data visualizations?
• People with auditory and / or language processing issues to participate in community forums, town halls, and meetings with policymakers, amid the lack of standardized, real-time, high-quality captioning?
• People with neurocognitive disabilities to discern mis/disinformation, in order to make informed civic decisions?