Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Update: Call for submissions

The Equity and Inclusion Office and the McMaster Accessibility Council invite you to submit a 150-word description of new or ongoing accessibility and disability inclusion work either personally or as part of your unit to this year’s Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Update 2019-2020.

Recognizing that 2020 has presented unprecedented challenges, impacting individuals and communities in many different ways, we have delayed and streamlined our application process this year for submissions and publication of the Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Update 2019-2020.

Please find revised timelines for submission and publication detailed below:

Event	Date / Timeline
Call Out and Submission Period	October 2^nd – End of day (5pm) November 13^th, 2020
Publishing and Circulation of the Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Update Newsletter (containing select highlights from this year’s Update to share with the campus community to promote and celebrate the Update’s full digital publication)	December 3^rd, 2020 (International Day of Persons with Disabilities)
Publishing and circulation of the full digital version of the Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Update	End of January – beginning February, 2021

You may submit more than one submission / person and unit; if your submission exceeds 150 words, please consider breaking into multiple submissions.

Some additional information to consider in making your submission simple:

If quicker / easier, please feel free to submit in bullet-point form
Include links to photos and/or stories that connect the audience to a larger description of your work / efforts

To submit, fill out the online, fillable Form.

Thanks to you all for your continued hard work and dedication to accessibility and inclusion.

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The Equity and Inclusion Office and the McMaster Accessibility Council invite you <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=B2M3RCm0rUKMJSjNSW9HckxLMLWJOvhEjBKRM6i1ZQ1UMkNIVldURDA5MlZJWlcwMjlLNlYxMkNXSS4u">to submit a 150-word description</a> of new or ongoing accessibility and disability inclusion work either personally or as part of your unit to this year’s <a href="https://accessibility.mcmaster.ca/services/#tab-content-inclusion-initiatives">Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Update 2019-2020</a>.

Recognizing that 2020 has presented unprecedented challenges, impacting individuals and communities in many different ways, we have delayed and streamlined our application process this year for submissions and publication of the Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Update 2019-2020.

Please find revised timelines for submission and publication detailed below:
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<td width="312"><strong>Date / Timeline</strong></td>
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<td width="312"><strong>Call Out and Submission Period</strong></td>
<td width="312">October 2<sup>nd</sup> - End of day (5pm) November 13<sup>th</sup>, 2020</td>
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<td width="312"><strong>Publishing and Circulation of the Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Update Newsletter</strong> (containing select highlights from this year’s Update to share with the campus community to promote and celebrate the Update’s full digital publication)</td>
<td width="312">December 3<sup>rd</sup>, 2020 (International Day of Persons with Disabilities)</td>
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<td width="312"><strong>Publishing and circulation of the full digital version of the Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Update</strong>

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<td width="312">End of January – beginning February, 2021</td>
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You may submit more than one submission / person and unit; if your submission exceeds 150 words, <strong>please consider breaking into multiple submissions. </strong>

<strong>Some additional information to consider in making your submission simple:</strong>
<ul>
 	<li>If quicker / easier, please feel free to submit in <strong>bullet-point form</strong></li>
 	<li>Include <strong>links to photos and/or stories</strong> that connect the audience to a larger description of your work / efforts</li>
</ul>
To submit, fill out the <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=B2M3RCm0rUKMJSjNSW9HckxLMLWJOvhEjBKRM6i1ZQ1UMkNIVldURDA5MlZJWlcwMjlLNlYxMkNXSS4u">online, fillable Form</a>.

Thanks to you all for your continued hard work and dedication to accessibility and inclusion.

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