Philosopher Adam Cureton (Tennessee) writes:
I'm writing because I thought you might be willing to share a practical idea I had about accessibility for disabled philosophers with the many readers of your blog. The gist is that I'm visually impaired in a way that prevents me from reading handouts and seeing PowerPoints during philosophy talks, which often puts me at a disadvantage during those occasions. So, I wrote up a how-to guide for a new, easy and free way I came up with to make handouts, PowerPoints and presentation materials more accessible for people like me who cannot see them. The idea is to insert QR codes (of the sort that are on airplane tickets) on presentation materials, which can easily direct a disabled audience member to an electronic version of the presentation materials, which can still be edited up to the time of the talk. After the talk, the presenter can cancel the code so that it doesn't work anymore. This would really help, I think, to make presentations of most any kind more accessible for disabled people. Anyway, the link to the write-up is below.
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