Coordinating Accessible & Engaging Virtual Events for CILs and SILCs

0:03 Hi, everyone. We're going to wait about 10 seconds before we start any content today. All right, thanks. I see the audience populating here. We always like to wait a few moments to make sure everyone's connected before we start any content. So I'm Tim Fuchs with the National Council on Independent Living. I want to welcome you all to our latest ILNET webinar, Coordinating Accessible and Engaging Virtual Events for Sills and Silks, a panel discussion of promising practices. My pronouns are he and him. I am a white man, 40 years old, sitting in my home office in a dark gray shirt. And I have a tapestry in the

0:51 background and a lamp that sometimes it looks like it's attached to my head. So this presentation is brought to you by the ILNET Training and Technical Assistance Center for Independent Living. The ILNET, of course, as many of you know, is operated by ILRU in collaboration with NICOL, APRIL, and the University of Montana with support provided by the Administration for Community Living at the U .S. Department of Health and Human Services. So I'm just going to run through some housekeeping and accessibility tips before we start today. And as I do that, oh, I was on the wrong slide. I'm sorry, you all. So I'm going to go ahead to slide three as we review these things together. So CART captioning and ASL interpreters are available, of course. You can turn on captioning by selecting the show subtitle

1:40 option in your Zoom menu bar. If you don't see that, look under more options. It should be on the right -hand side. It should say more. Look for closed caption and select show subtitle. Our ASL interpreter should be appearing in the video screen. We are screen sharing today. So please ensure you're in side -by -side mode. I am forcing this presentation in gallery. It should look okay. But if you have not already, you can go up to the options at the top of your screen where it says Tim Fuchs is sharing his screen. And in the drop down there, ensure that you're in side -by -side mode. If you're using two monitors, you can also select optimize for dual monitors there. If you're not using dual monitors, you don't need to worry about that. What

2:28 that side -by -side mode will allow you to do is adjust the video and PowerPoint to the size that you prefer. So if you want the PowerPoint smaller and the video is larger, you can do that and vice versa. If you have any trouble with that or any questions, please let us know in the chat and we'll give you a hand. In addition to our panel discussion today, we're going to have plenty of time for audience questions. There's a few ways that you can submit questions and you can do this anytime during the presentation. We are going to wait for our Q &A break to address your questions, but you can submit them whenever you'd like. You can use the Zoom Q &A tab if you're connected through Zoom today. If that's not convenient or accessible for you, you can always email your questions to me at tim .nickel .org. That's tim .nickel .org. If you're on the

3:16 phone today, if you're only on the phone today calling in, you can press star 9 on your keypad. I want to ask if you're connected through Zoom and these options are accessible to you, please use the Zoom Q &A tab. Only press star 9. Raise your hand if you're on the phone. I want to save that option for folks that cannot submit questions in another way. And finally, we do have an evaluation form for today's presentation. We would like to ask you to take a few moments after today's webinar to fill it out and let us know what you thought. That was sent to you in the materials email that you received a couple days ago with the materials for today's presentation. It is also in our Zoom meeting. So when I close the

4:02 webinar today, that evaluation form will actually pop up in your browser. So if you take a few moments, we would really appreciate it. We take your feedback really seriously. And we all know, even with the best intentions, it's really hard to go back a few days later and fill one out. So if you just plan on doing that, we'd really appreciate it. All right. So with us today, we have Brooke Curtis, Mary Willard, and Sierra Royster. I want to thank them for all the time that they've taken to plan today's event. I think these are familiar names. I'm sure you all know some of these folks very well. Brooke, of course, is Associate Director of the ILNET TNTA Center. And Brooke has generously

4:49 offered to moderate today's discussion. Since I'm one of the panelists, she's offered to facilitate our panel discussion. So really appreciate that. Sierra Royster is here with us from April. Sierra is Director of Innovation. And Mary Willard is Director of Training and Technical Assistance for April. So between the four of us, we've done a lot of virtual events. These are not necessarily, you know, proven best practices, but they are promising practices. They're things that have worked well for us. And it's based on a lot of events and a lot of lessons learned over the last few years. All right. I am going to go to slide five. And on today's webinar, you will learn effective strategies for ensuring all aspects of virtual events are fully accessible,

5:36 including registration, paywall, and event communications, accessibility features offered by the Zoom platform, and ways to improve virtual engagement and combat virtual burnout. And with that, I'm going to click to slide six and turn the floor over to Brooke to get us started on the discussion. Awesome. Thanks so much, Tim. Again, my name's... Hi, everyone. We're going to wait about 10 seconds before we start any content today. All right, thanks. I see the audience populating here. We always like to wait a

6:26 few moments to make sure everyone's connected before we start any content. So I'm Tim Fuchs with the National Council on Independent Living. I want to welcome you all to our latest ILNET webinar, Coordinating Accessible and Engaging Virtual Events for Sills and Silks, a panel discussion of promising practices. My pronouns are he and him. I am a white man, 40 years old, sitting in my home office in a dark gray shirt. And I have a tapestry in the background and a lamp that sometimes it looks like it's attached to my head. So this presentation is brought to you by the ILNET Training and Technical Assistance Center for Independent Living. The ILNET, of course, as many of you know, is operated by ILRU

7:11 in collaboration with NICOL, APRIL, and the University of Montana with support provided by the Administration for Community Living at the U .S. Department of Health and Human Services. So I'm just going to run through some housekeeping and accessibility tips before we start today. And as I do that, oh, I was on the wrong slide. I'm sorry, you all. So I'm going to go ahead to slide three as we review these things together. So CART captioning and ASL interpreters are available, of course. You can turn on captioning by selecting the show subtitle option in your Zoom menu bar. If you don't see that, look under more options. It should be on the right -hand side. It should say more. Look for closed caption and select show subtitle. Our ASL interpreter should be

8:02 appearing in the video screen. We are screen sharing today. So please ensure you're in side -by -side mode. I am forcing this presentation in gallery. It should look okay. But if you have not already, you can go up to the options at the top of your screen where it says Tim Fuchs is sharing his screen. And in the drop down there, ensure that you're in side -by -side mode. If you're using two monitors, you can also select optimize for dual monitors there. If you're not using dual monitors, you don't need to worry about that. What that side -by -side mode will allow you to do is adjust the video and PowerPoint to the size that you prefer. So if you want the PowerPoint smaller and the video is larger, you can do that and vice versa. If you have any

8:48 trouble with that or any questions, please let us know in the chat and we'll give you a hand. In addition to our panel discussion today, we're going to have plenty of time for audience questions. There's a few ways that you can submit questions and you can do this anytime during the presentation. We are going to wait for our Q &A break to address your questions, but you can submit them whenever you'd like. You can use the Zoom Q &A tab if you're connected through Zoom today. If that's not convenient or accessible for you, you can always email your questions to me at tim .nickel .org. That's tim .nickel .org. If you're on the phone today, if you're only on the phone today calling in, you can press star 9 on your keypad. I want to ask if you're connected through Zoom and these options are accessible to you, please use the Zoom Q &A tab. Only press star

9:33 9. Raise your hand if you're on the phone. I want to save that option for folks that cannot submit questions in another way. And finally, we do have an evaluation form for today's presentation. We would like to ask you to take a few moments after today's webinar to fill it out and let us know what you thought. That was sent to you in the materials email that you received a couple days ago with the materials for today's presentation. It is also in our Zoom meeting. So when I close the webinar today, that evaluation form will actually pop up in your browser. So if you take a few moments, we would really appreciate it. We take your feedback really seriously.

10:19 And we all know, even with the best intentions, it's really hard to go back a few days later and fill one out. So if you just plan on doing that, we'd really appreciate it. All right. So with us today, we have Brooke Curtis, Mary Willard, and Sierra Royster. I want to thank them for all the time that they've taken to plan today's event. I think these are familiar names. I'm sure you all know some of these folks very well. Brooke, of course, is Associate Director of the ILNET TNTA Center. And Brooke has generously offered to moderate today's discussion. Since I'm one of the panelists, she's offered to facilitate our panel discussion. So really appreciate that. Sierra Royster is here with us from April.

11:06 Sierra is Director of Innovation. And Mary Willard is Director of Training and Technical Assistance for April. So between the four of us, we've done a lot of virtual events. These are not necessarily, you know, proven best practices, but they are promising practices. They're things that have worked well for us. And it's based on a lot of events and a lot of lessons learned over the last few years. All right. I am going to go to slide five. And on today's webinar, you will learn effective strategies for ensuring all aspects of virtual events are fully accessible, including registration, paywall, and event communications, accessibility features offered by the Zoom platform, and ways to

11:52 improve virtual engagement and combat virtual burnout. And with that, I'm going to click to slide six and turn the floor over to Brooke to get us started on the discussion. Awesome. Thanks so much, Tim. Again, my name is Brooke Curtis. I'm the Associate Director of Training and Publications for the IONet at ILRU. And my pronouns are she, her. And a visual description of me is I'm a Black woman. I'm wearing my hair in a bun. And I have red glasses on today. And I guess

12:40 Hi, everyone. We're going to wait about 10 seconds before we start any content today. All right, thanks. I see the audience populating here. We always like to wait a few moments to make sure everyone's connected before we start any content. So I'm Tim Fuchs with the National Council on Independent Living. I want to welcome you all to our latest ILNET webinar, Coordinating Accessible and Engaging Virtual Events for Sills and Silks, a panel discussion of promising practices. My pronouns are he and him. I am a white man, 40 years old, sitting in my home office in a dark gray shirt. And I have a tapestry in the

13:28 background and a lamp that sometimes it looks like it's attached to my head. So this presentation is brought to you by the ILNET Training and Technical Assistance Center for Independent Living. The ILNET, of course, as many of you know, is operated by ILRU in collaboration with NICOL, APRIL, and the University of Montana with support provided by the Administration for Community Living at the U .S. Department of Health and Human Services. So I'm just going to run through some housekeeping and accessibility tips before we start today. And as I do that, oh, I was on the wrong slide. I'm sorry, you all. So I'm going to go ahead to slide three as we review these things together. So CART captioning and ASL interpreters are available, of course. You can turn on captioning by selecting the show subtitle

14:17 option in your Zoom menu bar. If you don't see that, look under more options. It should be on the right -hand side. It should say more. Look for closed caption and select show subtitle. Our ASL interpreter should be appearing in the video screen. We are screen sharing today. So please ensure you're in side -by -side mode. I am forcing this presentation in gallery. It should look okay. But if you have not already, you can go up to the options at the top of your screen where it says Tim Fuchs is sharing his screen. And in the drop down there, ensure that you're in side -by -side mode. If you're using two monitors, you can also select optimize for dual monitors there. If you're not using dual monitors, you don't need to worry about that. What

15:05 that side -by -side mode will allow you to do is adjust the video and PowerPoint to the size that you prefer. So if you want the PowerPoint smaller and the video is larger, you can do that and vice versa. If you have any trouble with that or any questions, please let us know in the chat and we'll give you a hand. In addition to our panel discussion today, we're going to have plenty of time for audience questions. There's a few ways that you can submit questions and you can do this anytime during the presentation. We are going to wait for our Q &A break to address your questions, but you can submit them whenever you'd like. You can use the Zoom Q &A tab if you're connected through Zoom today. If that's not convenient or accessible for you, you can always email your questions to me at tim .nickel .org. That's tim .nickel .org. If you're on the

15:53 phone today, if you're only on the phone today calling in, you can press star 9 on your keypad. I want to ask if you're connected through Zoom and these options are accessible to you, please use the Zoom Q &A tab. Only press star 9. Raise your hand if you're on the phone. I want to save that option for folks that cannot submit questions in another way. And finally, we do have an evaluation form for today's presentation. We would like to ask you to take a few moments after today's webinar to fill it out and let us know what you thought. That was sent to you in the materials email that you received a couple days ago with the materials for today's presentation. It is also in our Zoom meeting. So when I close the

16:39 webinar today, that evaluation form will actually pop up in your browser. So if you take a few moments, we would really appreciate it. We take your feedback really seriously. And we all know, even with the best intentions, it's really hard to go back a few days later and fill one out. So if you just plan on doing that, we'd really appreciate it. All right. So with us today, we have Brooke Curtis, Mary Willard, and Sierra Royster. I want to thank them for all the time that they've taken to plan today's event. I think these are familiar names. I'm sure you all know some of these folks very well. Brooke, of course, is Associate Director of the ILNET TNTA Center. And Brooke has generously

17:26 offered to moderate today's discussion. Since I'm one of the panelists, she's offered to facilitate our panel discussion. So really appreciate that. Sierra Royster is here with us from April. Sierra is Director of Innovation. And Mary Willard is Director of Training and Technical Assistance for April. So between the four of us, we've done a lot of virtual events. These are not necessarily, you know, proven best practices, but they are promising practices. They're things that have worked well for us. And it's based on a lot of events and a lot of lessons learned over the last few years. All right. I am going to go to slide five. And on today's webinar, you will learn effective strategies for ensuring all aspects of virtual events are fully accessible,

18:13 including registration, paywall, and event communications, accessibility features offered by the Zoom platform, and ways to improve virtual engagement and combat virtual burnout. And with that, I'm going to click to slide six and turn the floor over to Brooke to get us started on the discussion. Awesome. Thanks so much, Tim. Again, my name is Brooke Curtis. I'm the Associate Director of Training and Publications for the IONet at ILRU. And my pronouns are she, her. And a visual description of me is I'm a Black woman. I'm wearing my hair in a bun. And I have red glasses on today. And I

19:02 guess Hi, everyone. We're going to wait about 10 seconds before we start any content today. All right, thanks. I see the audience populating here. We always like to wait a few moments to make sure everyone's connected before we start any content. So I'm Tim Fuchs with the National Council on Independent Living. I want to welcome you all to our latest ILNET webinar, Coordinating Accessible and Engaging Virtual Events for Sills and Silks, a panel discussion of promising practices. My pronouns are he and him. I

19:49 am a white man, 40 years old, sitting in my home office in a dark gray shirt. And I have a tapestry in the background and a lamp that sometimes it looks like it's attached to my head. So this presentation is brought to you by the ILNET Training and Technical Assistance Center for Independent Living. The ILNET, of course, as many of you know, is operated by ILRU in collaboration with NICOL, APRIL, and the University of Montana with support provided by the Administration for Community Living at the U .S. Department of Health and Human Services. So I'm just going to run through some housekeeping and accessibility tips before we start today. And as I do that, oh, I was on the wrong slide. I'm sorry, you all. So I'm going to go ahead to slide three as we

20:37 review these things together. So CART captioning and ASL interpreters are available, of course. You can turn on captioning by selecting the show subtitle option in your Zoom menu bar. If you don't see that, look under more options. It should be on the right -hand side. It should say more. Look for closed caption and select show subtitle. Our ASL interpreter should be appearing in the video screen. We are screen sharing today. So please ensure you're in side -by -side mode. I am forcing this presentation in gallery. It should look okay. But if you have not already, you can go up to the options at the top of your screen where it says Tim Fuchs is

21:22 sharing his screen. And in the drop down there, ensure that you're in side -by -side mode. If you're using two monitors, you can also select optimize for dual monitors there. If you're not using dual monitors, you don't need to worry about that. What that side -by -side mode will allow you to do is adjust the video and PowerPoint to the size that you prefer. So if you want the PowerPoint smaller and the video is larger, you can do that and vice versa. If you have any trouble with that or any questions, please let us know in the chat and we'll give you a hand. In addition to our panel discussion today, we're going to have plenty of time for audience questions. There's a few ways that you can submit questions and you can do this anytime during the presentation. We are going to wait for our Q &A break to address your questions, but you can submit them whenever you'd

22:09 like. You can use the Zoom Q &A tab if you're connected through Zoom today. If that's not convenient or accessible for you, you can always email your questions to me at tim .nickel .org. That's tim .nickel .org. If you're on the phone today, if you're only on the phone today calling in, you can press star 9 on your keypad. I want to ask if you're connected through Zoom and these options are accessible to you, please use the Zoom Q &A tab. Only press star 9. Raise your hand if you're on the phone. I want to save that option for folks that cannot submit questions in another way. And finally, we do have an evaluation form for today's presentation. We would like to ask you to take a few moments after today's webinar to fill

22:56 it out and let us know what you thought. That was sent to you in the materials email that you received a couple days ago with the materials for today's presentation. It is also in our Zoom meeting. So when I close the webinar today, that evaluation form will actually pop up in your browser. So if you take a few moments, we would really appreciate it. We take your feedback really seriously. And we all know, even with the best intentions, it's really hard to go back a few days later and fill one out. So if you just plan on doing that, we'd really appreciate it. All right. So with us today, we have Brooke Curtis, Mary Willard, and Sierra Royster. I want to thank

23:42 them for all the time that they've taken to plan today's event. I think these are familiar names. I'm sure you all know some of these folks very well. Brooke, of course, is Associate Director of the ILNET TNTA Center. And Brooke has generously offered to moderate today's discussion. Since I'm one of the panelists, she's offered to facilitate our panel discussion. So really appreciate that. Sierra Royster is here with us from April. Sierra is Director of Innovation. And Mary Willard is Director of Training and Technical Assistance for April. So between the four of us, we've done a lot of virtual events. These are not necessarily, you know, proven best practices, but they are promising practices. They're things that have worked well for us. And it's based on a lot of events

24:27 and a lot of lessons learned over the last few years. All right. I am going to go to slide five. And on today's webinar, you will learn effective strategies for ensuring all aspects of virtual events are fully accessible, including registration, paywall, and event communications, accessibility features offered by the Zoom platform, and ways to improve virtual engagement and combat virtual burnout. And with that, I'm going to click to slide six and turn the floor over to Brooke to get us started on the discussion. Awesome. Thanks so much, Tim. Again, my name is Brooke Curtis. I'm the Associate Director of Training and

25:17 Publications for the IONet at ILRU. And my pronouns are she, her. And a visual description of me is I'm a Black woman. I'm wearing my hair in a bun. And I have red glasses on today. And I guess Hi, everyone. We're going to wait about 10 seconds before we start any content today. All right, thanks. I see the audience populating here. We always like to wait a few moments to make sure everyone's connected before we start any content. So I'm Tim

26:05 Fuchs with the National Council on Independent Living. I want to welcome you all to our latest ILNET webinar, Coordinating Accessible and Engaging Virtual Events for Sills and Silks, a panel discussion of promising practices. My pronouns are he and him. I am a white man, 40 years old, sitting in my home office in a dark gray shirt. And I have a tapestry in the background and a lamp that sometimes it looks like it's attached to my head. So this presentation is brought to you by the ILNET Training and Technical Assistance Center for Independent Living. The ILNET, of course, as many of you know, is operated by ILRU in collaboration with NICOL, APRIL, and the University of Montana with support

26:51 provided by the Administration for Community Living at the U .S. Department of Health and Human Services. So I'm just going to run through some housekeeping and accessibility tips before we start today. And as I do that, oh, I was on the wrong slide. I'm sorry, you all. So I'm going to go ahead to slide three as we review these things together. So CART captioning and ASL interpreters are available, of course. You can turn on captioning by selecting the show subtitle option in your Zoom menu bar. If you don't see that, look under more options. It should be on the right -hand side. It should say more. Look for closed caption and select show subtitle. Our ASL interpreter should be appearing in the video screen. We are screen sharing today.

27:41 So please ensure you're in side -by -side mode. I am forcing this presentation in gallery. It should look okay. But if you have not already, you can go up to the options at the top of your screen where it says Tim Fuchs is sharing his screen. And in the drop down there, ensure that you're in side -by -side mode. If you're using two monitors, you can also select optimize for dual monitors there. If you're not using dual monitors, you don't need to worry about that. What that side -by -side mode will allow you to do is adjust the video and PowerPoint to the size that you prefer. So if you want the PowerPoint smaller and the video is larger, you can do that and vice versa. If you have any trouble with that or any questions, please let us know in the chat and we'll give you a hand. In addition to our panel discussion today, we're going to have

28:29 plenty of time for audience questions. There's a few ways that you can submit questions and you can do this anytime during the presentation. We are going to wait for our Q &A break to address your questions, but you can submit them whenever you'd like. You can use the Zoom Q &A tab if you're connected through Zoom today. If that's not convenient or accessible for you, you can always email your questions to me at tim .nickel .org. That's tim .nickel .org. If you're on the phone today, if you're only on the phone today calling in, you can press star 9 on your keypad. I want to ask if you're connected through Zoom and these options are accessible to you, please use the Zoom Q &A tab. Only press star 9. Raise your hand if you're on the phone. I want to save that option for folks that cannot submit questions in another way.

29:17 And finally, we do have an evaluation form for today's presentation. We would like to ask you to take a few moments after today's webinar to fill it out and let us know what you thought. That was sent to you in the materials email that you received a couple days ago with the materials for today's presentation. It is also in our Zoom meeting. So when I close the webinar today, that evaluation form will actually pop up in your browser. So if you take a few moments, we would really appreciate it. We take your feedback really seriously. And we all know, even with the best intentions, it's really hard to go back a few days later and fill one out. So if you just plan on doing that, we'd really appreciate it. All right. So with us

30:08 today, we have Brooke Curtis, Mary Willard, and Sierra Royster. I want to thank them for all the time that they've taken to plan today's event. I think these are familiar names. I'm sure you all know some of these folks very well. Brooke, of course, is Associate Director of the ILNET TNTA Center. And Brooke has generously offered to moderate today's discussion. Since I'm one of the panelists, she's offered to facilitate our panel discussion. So really appreciate that. Sierra Royster is here with us from April. Sierra is Director of Innovation. And Mary Willard is Director of Training and Technical Assistance for April. So between the four of us, we've done a lot of virtual events. These are not necessarily, you know, proven best practices, but they are promising practices. They're

30:55 things that have worked well for us. And it's based on a lot of events and a lot of lessons learned over the last few years. All right. I am going to go to slide five. And on today's webinar, you will learn effective strategies for ensuring all aspects of virtual events are fully accessible, including registration, paywall, and event communications, accessibility features offered by the Zoom platform, and ways to improve virtual engagement and combat virtual burnout. And with that, I'm going to click to slide six and turn the floor over to Brooke to get us started on the discussion. Awesome. Thanks so much,

31:42 Tim. Again, my name is Brooke Curtis. I'm the Associate Director of Training and Publications for the IONet at ILRU. And my pronouns are she, her. And a visual description of me is I'm a Black woman. I'm wearing my hair in a bun. And I have red glasses on today. And I guess Hi, everyone. We're going to wait about 10 seconds before we start any content today. All right, thanks. I see the audience populating here. We always like to wait a

32:31 few moments to make sure everyone's connected before we start any content. So I'm Tim Fuchs with the National Council on Independent Living. I want to welcome you all to our latest ILNET webinar, Coordinating Accessible and Engaging Virtual Events for Sills and Silks, a panel discussion of promising practices. My pronouns are he and him. I am a white man, 40 years old, sitting in my home office in a dark gray shirt. And I have a tapestry in the background and a lamp that sometimes it looks like it's attached to my head. So this presentation is brought to you by the ILNET Training and Technical Assistance Center for Independent Living. The ILNET, of course, as many of you know, is operated by ILRU

33:16 in collaboration with NICOL, APRIL, and the University of Montana with support provided by the Administration for Community Living at the U .S. Department of Health and Human Services. So I'm just going to run through some housekeeping and accessibility tips before we start today. And as I do that, oh, I was on the wrong slide. I'm sorry, you all. So I'm going to go ahead to slide three as we review these things together. So CART captioning and ASL interpreters are available, of course. You can turn on captioning by selecting the show subtitle option in your Zoom menu bar. If you don't see that, look under more options. It should be on the right -hand side. It should say more. Look for closed caption and select show subtitle. Our ASL interpreter should be

34:07 appearing in the video screen. We are screen sharing today. So please ensure you're in side -by -side mode. I am forcing this presentation in gallery. It should look okay. But if you have not already, you can go up to the options at the top of your screen where it says Tim Fuchs is sharing his screen. And in the drop down there, ensure that you're in side -by -side mode. If you're using two monitors, you can also select optimize for dual monitors there. If you're not using dual monitors, you don't need to worry about that. What that side -by -side mode will allow you to do is adjust the video and PowerPoint to the size that you prefer. So if you want the PowerPoint smaller and the video is larger, you can do that and vice versa. If you have any

34:53 trouble with that or any questions, please let us know in the chat and we'll give you a hand. In addition to our panel discussion today, we're going to have plenty of time for audience questions. There's a few ways that you can submit questions and you can do this anytime during the presentation. We are going to wait for our Q &A break to address your questions, but you can submit them whenever you'd like. You can use the Zoom Q &A tab if you're connected through Zoom today. If that's not convenient or accessible for you, you can always email your questions to me at tim .nickel .org. That's tim .nickel .org. If you're on the phone today, if you're only on the phone today calling in, you can press star 9 on your keypad. I want to ask if you're connected through Zoom and these options are accessible to you, please use the Zoom Q &A tab. Only press star

35:38 9. Raise your hand if you're on the phone. I want to save that option for folks that cannot submit questions in another way. And finally, we do have an evaluation form for today's presentation. We would like to ask you to take a few moments after today's webinar to fill it out and let us know what you thought. That was sent to you in the materials email that you received a couple days ago with the materials for today's presentation. It is also in our Zoom meeting. So when I close the webinar today, that evaluation form will actually pop up in your browser. So if you take a few moments, we would really appreciate it. We take your feedback really seriously.

36:24 And we all know, even with the best intentions, it's really hard to go back a few days later and fill one out. So if you just plan on doing that, we'd really appreciate it. All right. So with us today, we have Brooke Curtis, Mary Willard, and Sierra Royster. I want to thank them for all the time that they've taken to plan today's event. I think these are familiar names. I'm sure you all know some of these folks very well. Brooke, of course, is Associate Director of the ILNET TNTA Center. And Brooke has generously offered to moderate today's discussion. Since I'm one of the panelists, she's offered to facilitate our panel discussion. So really appreciate that. Sierra Royster is here with us from April.

37:11 Sierra is Director of Innovation. And Mary Willard is Director of Training and Technical Assistance for April. So between the four of us, we've done a lot of virtual events. These are not necessarily, you know, proven best practices, but they are promising practices. They're things that have worked well for us. And it's based on a lot of events and a lot of lessons learned over the last few years. All right. I am going to go to slide five. And on today's webinar, you will learn effective strategies for ensuring all aspects of virtual events are fully accessible, including registration, paywall, and event communications, accessibility features offered by the Zoom platform, and ways to

37:58 improve virtual engagement and combat virtual burnout. And with that, I'm going to click to slide six and turn the floor over to Brooke to get us started on the discussion. Awesome. Thanks so much, Tim. Again, my name is Brooke Curtis. I'm the Associate Director of Training and Publications for the IONet at ILRU. And my pronouns are she, her. And a visual description of me is I'm a Black woman. I'm wearing my hair in a bun. And I have red glasses on today. And I guess

38:45 Hi, everyone. We're going to wait about 10 seconds before we start any content today. All right, thanks. I see the audience populating here. We always like to wait a few moments to make sure everyone's connected before we start any content. So I'm Tim Fuchs with the National Council on Independent Living. I want to welcome you all to our latest ILNET webinar, Coordinating Accessible and Engaging Virtual Events for Sills and Silks, a panel discussion of promising practices. My pronouns are he and him. I am a white man, 40 years old, sitting in my home office in a dark gray shirt. And I have a tapestry in the

39:34 background and a lamp that sometimes it looks like it's attached to my head. So this presentation is brought to you by the ILNET Training and Technical Assistance Center for Independent Living. The ILNET, of course, as many of you know, is operated by ILRU in collaboration with NICOL, APRIL, and the University of Montana with support provided by the Administration for Community Living at the U .S. Department of Health and Human Services. So I'm just going to run through some housekeeping and accessibility tips before we start today. And as I do that, oh, I was on the wrong slide. I'm sorry, you all. So I'm going to go ahead to slide three as we review these things together. So CART captioning and ASL interpreters are available, of course. You can turn on captioning by selecting the show subtitle

40:22 option in your Zoom menu bar. If you don't see that, look under more options. It should be on the right -hand side. It should say more. Look for closed caption and select show subtitle. Our ASL interpreter should be appearing in the video screen. We are screen sharing today. So please ensure you're in side -by -side mode. I am forcing this presentation in gallery. It should look okay. But if you have not already, you can go up to the options at the top of your screen where it says Tim Fuchs is sharing his screen. And in the drop down there, ensure that you're in side -by -side mode. If you're using two monitors, you can also select optimize for dual monitors there. If you're not using dual monitors, you don't need to worry about that. What

41:10 that side -by -side mode will allow you to do is adjust the video and PowerPoint to the size that you prefer. So if you want the PowerPoint smaller and the video is larger, you can do that and vice versa. If you have any trouble with that or any questions, please let us know in the chat and we'll give you a hand. In addition to our panel discussion today, we're going to have plenty of time for audience questions. There's a few ways that you can submit questions and you can do this anytime during the presentation. We are going to wait for our Q &A break to address your questions, but you can submit them whenever you'd like. You can use the Zoom Q &A tab if you're connected through Zoom today. If that's not convenient or accessible for you, you can always email your questions to me at tim .nickel .org. That's tim .nickel .org. If you're on the

41:58 phone today, if you're only on the phone today calling in, you can press star 9 on your keypad. I want to ask if you're connected through Zoom and these options are accessible to you, please use the Zoom Q &A tab. Only press star 9. Raise your hand if you're on the phone. I want to save that option for folks that cannot submit questions in another way. And finally, we do have an evaluation form for today's presentation. We would like to ask you to take a few moments after today's webinar to fill it out and let us know what you thought. That was sent to you in the materials email that you received a couple days ago with the materials for today's presentation. It is also in our Zoom meeting. So when I close the

42:44 webinar today, that evaluation form will actually pop up in your browser. So if you take a few moments, we would really appreciate it. We take your feedback really seriously. And we all know, even with the best intentions, it's really hard to go back a few days later and fill one out. So if you just plan on doing that, we'd really appreciate it. All right. So with us today, we have Brooke Curtis, Mary Willard, and Sierra Royster. I want to thank them for all the time that they've taken to plan today's event. I think these are familiar names. I'm sure you all know some of these folks very well. Brooke, of course, is Associate Director of the ILNET TNTA Center. And Brooke has generously

43:31 offered to moderate today's discussion. Since I'm one of the panelists, she's offered to facilitate our panel discussion. So really appreciate that. Sierra Royster is here with us from April. Sierra is Director of Innovation. And Mary Willard is Director of Training and Technical Assistance for April. So between the four of us, we've done a lot of virtual events. These are not necessarily, you know, proven best practices, but they are promising practices. They're things that have worked well for us. And it's based on a lot of events and a lot of lessons learned over the last few years. All right. I am going to go to slide five. And on today's webinar, you will learn effective strategies for ensuring all aspects of virtual events are fully accessible,

44:18 including registration, paywall, and event communications, accessibility features offered by the Zoom platform, and ways to improve virtual engagement and combat virtual burnout. And with that, I'm going to click to slide six and turn the floor over to Brooke to get us started on the discussion. Awesome. Thanks so much, Tim. Again, my name is Brooke Curtis. I'm the Associate Director of Training and Publications for the IONet at ILRU. And my pronouns are she, her. And a visual description of me is I'm a Black woman. I'm wearing my hair in a bun. And I have red glasses on today. And I

45:07 guess Hi, everyone. We're going to wait about 10 seconds before we start any content today. All right, thanks. I see the audience populating here. We always like to wait a few moments to make sure everyone's connected before we start any content. So I'm Tim Fuchs with the National Council on Independent Living. I want to welcome you all to our latest ILNET webinar, Coordinating Accessible and Engaging Virtual Events for Sills and Silks, a panel discussion of promising practices. My pronouns are he and him. I

45:54 am a white man, 40 years old, sitting in my home office in a dark gray shirt. And I have a tapestry in the background and a lamp that sometimes it looks like it's attached to my head. So this presentation is brought to you by the ILNET Training and Technical Assistance Center for Independent Living. The ILNET, of course, as many of you know, is operated by ILRU in collaboration with NICOL, APRIL, and the University of Montana with support provided by the Administration for Community Living at the U .S. Department of Health and Human Services. So I'm just going to run through some housekeeping and accessibility tips before we start today. And as I do that, oh, I was on the wrong slide. I'm sorry, you all. So I'm going to go ahead to slide three as we

46:42 review these things together. So CART captioning and ASL interpreters are available, of course. You can turn on captioning by selecting the show subtitle option in your Zoom menu bar. If you don't see that, look under more options. It should be on the right -hand side. It should say more. Look for closed caption and select show subtitle. Our ASL interpreter should be appearing in the video screen. We are screen sharing today. So please ensure you're in side -by -side mode. I am forcing this presentation in gallery. It should look okay. But if you have not already, you can go up to the options at the top of your screen where it says Tim Fuchs is

47:27 sharing his screen. And in the drop down there, ensure that you're in side -by -side mode. If you're using two monitors, you can also select optimize for dual monitors there. If you're not using dual monitors, you don't need to worry about that. What that side -by -side mode will allow you to do is adjust the video and PowerPoint to the size that you prefer. So if you want the PowerPoint smaller and the video is larger, you can do that and vice versa. If you have any trouble with that or any questions, please let us know in the chat and we'll give you a hand. In addition to our panel discussion today, we're going to have plenty of time for audience questions. There's a few ways that you can submit questions and you can do this anytime during the presentation. We are going to wait for our Q &A break to address your questions, but you can submit them whenever you'd

48:14 like. You can use the Zoom Q &A tab if you're connected through Zoom today. If that's not convenient or accessible for you, you can always email your questions to me at tim .nickel .org. That's tim .nickel .org. If you're on the phone today, if you're only on the phone today calling in, you can press star 9 on your keypad. I want to ask if you're connected through Zoom and these options are accessible to you, please use the Zoom Q &A tab. Only press star 9. Raise your hand if you're on the phone. I want to save that option for folks that cannot submit questions in another way. And finally, we do have an evaluation form for today's presentation. We would like to ask you to take a few moments after today's webinar to fill

49:01 it out and let us know what you thought. That was sent to you in the materials email that you received a couple days ago with the materials for today's presentation. It is also in our Zoom meeting. So when I close the webinar today, that evaluation form will actually pop up in your browser. So if you take a few moments, we would really appreciate it. We take your feedback really seriously. And we all know, even with the best intentions, it's really hard to go back a few days later and fill one out. So if you just plan on doing that, we'd really appreciate it. All right. So with us today, we have Brooke Curtis, Mary Willard, and Sierra Royster. I want to thank

49:47 them for all the time that they've taken to plan today's event. I think these are familiar names. I'm sure you all know some of these folks very well. Brooke, of course, is Associate Director of the ILNET TNTA Center. And Brooke has generously offered to moderate today's discussion. Since I'm one of the panelists, she's offered to facilitate our panel discussion. So really appreciate that. Sierra Royster is here with us from April. Sierra is Director of Innovation. And Mary Willard is Director of Training and Technical Assistance for April. So between the four of us, we've done a lot of virtual events. These are not necessarily, you know, proven best practices, but they are promising practices. They're things that have worked well for us. And it's based on a lot of events

50:32 and a lot of lessons learned over the last few years. All right. I am going to go to slide five. And on today's webinar, you will learn effective strategies for ensuring all aspects of virtual events are fully accessible, including registration, paywall, and event communications, accessibility features offered by the Zoom platform, and ways to improve virtual engagement and combat virtual burnout. And with that, I'm going to click to slide six and turn the floor over to Brooke to get us started on the discussion. Awesome. Thanks so much, Tim. Again, my name is Brooke Curtis. I'm the Associate Director of Training and

51:22 Publications for the IONet at ILRU. And my pronouns are she, her. And a visual description of me is I'm a Black woman. I'm wearing my hair in a bun. And I have red glasses on today. And I guess Hi, everyone. We're going to wait about 10 seconds before we start any content today. All right, thanks. I see the audience populating here. We always like to wait a few moments to make sure everyone's connected before we start any content. So I'm Tim

52:10 Fuchs with the National Council on Independent Living. I want to welcome you all to our latest ILNET webinar, Coordinating Accessible and Engaging Virtual Events for Sills and Silks, a panel discussion of promising practices. My pronouns are he and him. I am a white man, 40 years old, sitting in my home office in a dark gray shirt. And I have a tapestry in the background and a lamp that sometimes it looks like it's attached to my head. So this presentation is brought to you by the ILNET Training and Technical Assistance Center for Independent Living. The ILNET, of course, as many of you know, is operated by ILRU in collaboration with NICOL, APRIL, and the University of Montana with support

52:56 provided by the Administration for Community Living at the U .S. Department of Health and Human Services. So I'm just going to run through some housekeeping and accessibility tips before we start today. And as I do that, oh, I was on the wrong slide. I'm sorry, you all. So I'm going to go ahead to slide three as we review these things together. So CART captioning and ASL interpreters are available, of course. You can turn on captioning by selecting the show subtitle option in your Zoom menu bar. If you don't see that, look under more options. It should be on the right -hand side. It should say more. Look for closed caption and select show subtitle. Our ASL interpreter should be appearing in the video screen. We are screen sharing today.

53:46 So please ensure you're in side -by -side mode. I am forcing this presentation in gallery. It should look okay. But if you have not already, you can go up to the options at the top of your screen where it says Tim Fuchs is sharing his screen. And in the drop down there, ensure that you're in side -by -side mode. If you're using two monitors, you can also select optimize for dual monitors there. If you're not using dual monitors, you don't need to worry about that. What that side -by -side mode will allow you to do is adjust the video and PowerPoint to the size that you prefer. So if you want the PowerPoint smaller and the video is larger, you can do that and vice versa. If you have any trouble with that or any questions, please let us know in the chat and we'll give you a hand. In addition to our panel discussion today, we're going to have

54:34 plenty of time for audience questions. There's a few ways that you can submit questions and you can do this anytime during the presentation. We are going to wait for our Q &A break to address your questions, but you can submit them whenever you'd like. You can use the Zoom Q &A tab if you're connected through Zoom today. If that's not convenient or accessible for you, you can always email your questions to me at tim .nickel .org. That's tim .nickel .org. If you're on the phone today, if you're only on the phone today calling in, you can press star 9 on your keypad. I want to ask if you're connected through Zoom and these options are accessible to you, please use the Zoom Q &A tab. Only press star 9. Raise your hand if you're on the phone. I want to save that option for folks that cannot submit questions in another way.

55:22 And finally, we do have an evaluation form for today's presentation. We would like to ask you to take a few moments after today's webinar to fill it out and let us know what you thought. That was sent to you in the materials email that you received a couple days ago with the materials for today's presentation. It is also in our Zoom meeting. So when I close the webinar today, that evaluation form will actually pop up in your browser. So if you take a few moments, we would really appreciate it. We take your feedback really seriously. And we all know, even with the best intentions, it's really hard to go back a few days later and fill one out. So if you just plan on doing that, we'd really appreciate it. All right. So with us

56:13 today, we have Brooke Curtis, Mary Willard, and Sierra Royster. I want to thank them for all the time that they've taken to plan today's event. I think these are familiar names. I'm sure you all know some of these folks very well. Brooke, of course, is Associate Director of the ILNET TNTA Center. And Brooke has generously offered to moderate today's discussion. Since I'm one of the panelists, she's offered to facilitate our panel discussion. So really appreciate that. Sierra Royster is here with us from April. Sierra is Director of Innovation. And Mary Willard is Director of Training and Technical Assistance for April. So between the four of us, we've done a lot of virtual events. These are not necessarily, you know, proven best practices, but they are promising practices. They're

57:01 things that have worked well for us. And it's based on a lot of events and a lot of lessons learned over the last few years. All right. I am going to go to slide five. And on today's webinar, you will learn effective strategies for ensuring all aspects of virtual events are fully accessible, including registration, paywall, and event communications, accessibility features offered by the Zoom platform, and ways to improve virtual engagement and combat virtual burnout. And with that, I'm going to click to slide six and turn the floor over to Brooke to get us started on the discussion. Awesome. Thanks so much,

57:48 Tim. Again, my name is Brooke Curtis. I'm the Associate Director of Training and Publications for the IONet at ILRU. And my pronouns are she, her. And a visual description of me is I'm a Black woman. I'm wearing my hair in a bun. And I have red glasses on today. And I guess Hi, everyone. We're going to wait about 10 seconds before we start any content today. All right, thanks. I see the audience populating here. We always like to wait a

58:36 few moments to make sure everyone's connected before we start any content. So I'm Tim Fuchs with the National Council on Independent Living. I want to welcome you all to our latest ILNET webinar, Coordinating Accessible and Engaging Virtual Events for Sills and Silks, a panel discussion of promising practices. My pronouns are he and him. I am a white man, 40 years old, sitting in my home office in a dark gray shirt. And I have a tapestry in the background and a lamp that sometimes it looks like it's attached to my head. So this presentation is brought to you by the ILNET Training and Technical Assistance Center for Independent Living. The ILNET, of course, as many of you know, is operated by ILRU

59:21 in collaboration with NICOL, APRIL, and the University of Montana with support provided by the Administration for Community Living at the U .S. Department of Health and Human Services. So I'm just going to run through some housekeeping and accessibility tips before we start today. And as I do that, oh, I was on the wrong slide. I'm sorry, you all. So I'm going to go ahead to slide three as we review these things together. So CART captioning and ASL interpreters are available, of course. You can turn on captioning by selecting the show subtitle option in your Zoom menu bar. If you don't see that, look under more options. It should be on the right -hand side. It should say more. Look for closed caption and select show subtitle. Our ASL interpreter should be

1:00:12 appearing in the video screen. We are screen sharing today. So please ensure you're in side -by -side mode. I am forcing this presentation in gallery. It should look okay. But if you have not already, you can go up to the options at the top of your screen where it says Tim Fuchs is sharing his screen. And in the drop down there, ensure that you're in side -by -side mode. If you're using two monitors, you can also select optimize for dual monitors there. If you're not using dual monitors, you don't need to worry about that. What that side -by -side mode will allow you to do is adjust the video and PowerPoint to the size that you prefer. So if you want the PowerPoint smaller and the video is larger, you can do that and vice versa. If you have any

1:00:58 trouble with that or any questions, please let us know in the chat and we'll give you a hand. In addition to our panel discussion today, we're going to have plenty of time for audience questions. There's a few ways that you can submit questions and you can do this anytime during the presentation. We are going to wait for our Q &A break to address your questions, but you can submit them whenever you'd like. You can use the Zoom Q &A tab if you're connected through Zoom today. If that's not convenient or accessible for you, you can always email your questions to me at tim .nickel .org. That's tim .nickel .org. If you're on the phone today, if you're only on the phone today calling in, you can press star 9 on your keypad. I want to ask if you're connected through Zoom and these options are accessible to you, please use the Zoom Q &A tab. Only press star

1:01:44 9. Raise your hand if you're on the phone. I want to save that option for folks that cannot submit questions in another way. And finally, we do have an evaluation form for today's presentation. We would like to ask you to take a few moments after today's webinar to fill it out and let us know what you thought. That was sent to you in the materials email that you received a couple days ago with the materials for today's presentation. It is also in our Zoom meeting. So when I close the webinar today, that evaluation form will actually pop up in your browser. So if you take a few moments, we would really appreciate it. We take your feedback really seriously.

1:02:30 And we all know, even with the best intentions, it's really hard to go back a few days later and fill one out. So if you just plan on doing that, we'd really appreciate it. All right. So with us today, we have Brooke Curtis, Mary Willard, and Sierra Royster. I want to thank them for all the time that they've taken to plan today's event. I think these are familiar names. I'm sure you all know some of these folks very well. Brooke, of course, is Associate Director of the ILNET TNTA Center. And Brooke has generously offered to moderate today's discussion. Since I'm one of the panelists, she's offered to facilitate our panel discussion. So really appreciate that. Sierra Royster is here with us from April.

1:03:16 Sierra is Director of Innovation. And Mary Willard is Director of Training and Technical Assistance for April. So between the four of us, we've done a lot of virtual events. These are not necessarily, you know, proven best practices, but they are promising practices. They're things that have worked well for us. And it's based on a lot of events and a lot of lessons learned over the last few years. All right. I am going to go to slide five. And on today's webinar, you will learn effective strategies for ensuring all aspects of virtual events are fully accessible, including registration, paywall, and event communications, accessibility features offered by the Zoom platform, and ways to

1:04:03 improve virtual engagement and combat virtual burnout. And with that, I'm going to click to slide six and turn the floor over to Brooke to get us started on the discussion. Awesome. Thanks so much, Tim. Again, my name is Brooke Curtis. I'm the Associate Director of Training and Publications for the IONet at ILRU. And my pronouns are she, her. And a visual description of me is I'm a Black woman. I'm wearing my hair in a bun. And I have red glasses on today. And I guess

1:04:50 Hi, everyone. We're going to wait about 10 seconds before we start any content today. All right, thanks. I see the audience populating here. We always like to wait a few moments to make sure everyone's connected before we start any content. So I'm Tim Fuchs with the National Council on Independent Living. I want to welcome you all to our latest ILNET webinar, Coordinating Accessible and Engaging Virtual Events for Sills and Silks, a panel discussion of promising practices. My pronouns are he and him. I am a white man, 40 years old, sitting in my home office in a dark gray shirt. And I have a tapestry in the

1:05:39 background and a lamp that sometimes it looks like it's attached to my head. So this presentation is brought to you by the ILNET Training and Technical Assistance Center for Independent Living. The ILNET, of course, as many of you know, is operated by ILRU in collaboration with NICOL, APRIL, and the University of Montana with support provided by the Administration for Community Living at the U .S. Department of Health and Human Services. So I'm just going to run through some housekeeping and accessibility tips before we start today. And as I do that, oh, I was on the wrong slide. I'm sorry, you all. So I'm going to go ahead to slide three as we review these things together. So CART captioning and ASL interpreters are available, of course. You can turn on captioning by selecting the show subtitle

1:06:27 option in your Zoom menu bar. If you don't see that, look under more options. It should be on the right -hand side. It should say more. Look for closed caption and select show subtitle. Our ASL interpreter should be appearing in the video screen. We are screen sharing today. So please ensure you're in side -by -side mode. I am forcing this presentation in gallery. It should look okay. But if you have not already, you can go up to the options at the top of your screen where it says Tim Fuchs is sharing his screen. And in the drop down there, ensure that you're in side -by -side mode. If you're using two monitors, you can also select optimize for dual monitors there. If you're not using dual monitors, you don't need to worry about that. What

1:07:15 that side -by -side mode will allow you to do is adjust the video and PowerPoint to the size that you prefer. So if you want the PowerPoint smaller and the video is larger, you can do that and vice versa. If you have any trouble with that or any questions, please let us know in the chat and we'll give you a hand. In addition to our panel discussion today, we're going to have plenty of time for audience questions. There's a few ways that you can submit questions and you can do this anytime during the presentation. We are going to wait for our Q &A break to address your questions, but you can submit them whenever you'd like. You can use the Zoom Q &A tab if you're connected through Zoom today. If that's not convenient or accessible for you, you can always email your questions to me at tim .nickel .org. That's tim .nickel .org. If you're on the

1:08:03 phone today, if you're only on the phone today calling in, you can press star

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