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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ml@ecoevo.social ("Megan Lynch (she/her)") wrote:
Can you read what's on that slide? Would you say it's more important for the camera operator to show us the speaker's face & body or to show us the slide?
Note there are no captions I could find. Anyone who's Deaf, hard-of-hearing, has audio processing disorders, or for whom English is not their first language will have trouble without that accessibility in place.
We need to rethink turning over online conference production to third party vendors, IMO.
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- Screenshot of my view of the online portal for Botany 2023 conference going on right now in Boise, ID. On the left is a menu with choices home, program, posters, exhibit hall, participants, discussion board and more. Up top is the title of the one thing I can access right now as an online attendee "Whole genome duplications and impact on angiosperm character evolution". Inset is the camera view of a speaker with long hair standing at a podium. Much smaller in the upper left-hand of the inset screen are the slides the speaker is talking about. On my 17" laptop screen, the inset slide is about 1 inch by 2 inches large - not large enough to read any text on it or see much of the diagram. (remote)
