Advancing Accessible Virtual Meetings & Hybrid Events

In early 2020 Bridge Multimedia launched a nimble but powerful response to meet the challenges of the COVID 19 pandemic by creating a special initiative to produce fully accessible virtual conferences. Since then, remote meetings have become a part of everyday life – so it’s essential that they be easily available to individuals with disabilities. Bridge ran hundreds of virtual/hybrid events for organizations such as The American Foundation for the Blind and the U.S. Department of Education.

Some of the major virtual and hybrid events included:

• AFB’s Annual Leadership Conference
  The American Foundation for the Blind
• The Unconference Seminar
  United States Department of Education
• STEMIE Fest OSEP & The STEMIE Center
• ED. Games Expo
  Dept. of Ed. Institute of Education Sciences
• Media for All Virtual Conference
  University of Barcelona

Producing these immersive events with captioning, American Sign Language, and audio description gave Bridge a unique opportunity to compile proven practices for the creation of engaging, and smooth-running WCAG and 508-compliant remote events.