Attendance: Bailey Anderson, Patti Bahr, Brad Ferrier, Mike Meginnis, Megan Meyer, Michael Penniman, Laura Perry, David Rooney, Elizabeth Wallace, T.M. Weissenberger
- Potential action items:
- T.M. and other members summarized previous awareness campaigns and efforts of the CDA for the benefit of newer members.
- Megan shared that rare disease communities have been doing virtual film screenings followed by hosting a webinar conversation.
- They’ve also experimented with virtual gaming or bingo together.
- Megan also shared information about a medical school podcast (The Short Coat) that could be partnered with to promote efforts.
- Jen shared that there will be a school of social work podcast as well. It will be called Wild Bill’s Cup of Social Justice.
- Jen also discussed plans to utilize the Wild Bill’s space in a different way, hosting events for social justice efforts, especially disability-related programming.
- It was discussed that there could be efforts to promote information about the Zoom auto-captioning feature and/or the creating accessible materials course, possibly using money to promote those resources on Facebook or elsewhere.
- Jen expressed interest in receiving information to promote on Facebook and etc. from other CDA sessions.
- Patti suggested having bimonthly half-hour efforts to create informational content for Facebook, website, etc.
- It was discussed that a short video could be made with a resource T.M. has for social media and accessibility.
- Michael shared that he is in conversation regarding a disability roadmap for the University of Iowa. Mapping the campus in terms of accessibility and how to get around campus.
- T.M. suggested contacting Michael O’Neil in the Office of Strategic Communication, who is working on a related app.
- Other CDA members discussed related issues, possible approaches to scope, and potential contributions.
- General updates:
- Megan has been asked to join a taskforce on accessibility.
- Bailey Anderson and David Rooney discussed a webinar on writing alternative text: https://www.ahead.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=b0737243-3759-4926-9919-22c18c075a18&Home=%2Fhome)
- It was discussed that this could be part of a working session.
- Elizabeth suggested that there should be an alt text guide in a certain communications manual; Jen Knights shared that there is an effort to create an accessible communications manual.
- There was discussion of the request among students for having a disability-oriented space similar to the cultural houses that exist now.
- Patti shared this producing accessible materials course once again: https://learn.uiowa.edu/browse/doe/doe-college-of-learning/courses/creating-accessible-materials-free