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It's Official
May. 10th, 2020 03:20 amIn light of ongoing health concerns and our hosting hotel being just the best, AnimeIowa is going online-only this year!
This is a huge load off my mind; I was seriously worried about having even a fraction of our usual numbers in one place, since we usually get upwards of 3K people. Three days (four or more for staff) in a crowded hotel with poor sleep, hygiene, and eating habits all around is not a terribly good recipe for health in general, let alone when we've got a pandemic to contend with.
As head of the Accessibility Department, my priorities have also changed. I'm no longer frantic about how the hell we're even going to get enough hand sanitizer for the con in general, etc. My current projects are: Try to make sure we have descriptive audio for videos we get in advance; try and find something that can help live caption videos at least (possibly also just audio?); make sure we have links that are larger than just a single letter so people with motor control issues can click on them more easily (looking at you, Tumblr). Probably also some image description stuff?
Suggestions are welcome, and I'm probably going to be digging through![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
access_fandom for more ideas, but in the mean time I'm just plain relieved.
This is a huge load off my mind; I was seriously worried about having even a fraction of our usual numbers in one place, since we usually get upwards of 3K people. Three days (four or more for staff) in a crowded hotel with poor sleep, hygiene, and eating habits all around is not a terribly good recipe for health in general, let alone when we've got a pandemic to contend with.
As head of the Accessibility Department, my priorities have also changed. I'm no longer frantic about how the hell we're even going to get enough hand sanitizer for the con in general, etc. My current projects are: Try to make sure we have descriptive audio for videos we get in advance; try and find something that can help live caption videos at least (possibly also just audio?); make sure we have links that are larger than just a single letter so people with motor control issues can click on them more easily (looking at you, Tumblr). Probably also some image description stuff?
Suggestions are welcome, and I'm probably going to be digging through
access_fandom for more ideas, but in the mean time I'm just plain relieved.
