November 30, 2023 (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
**Date**: Thursday 30 November 2023.
**Time**: 07:00 PST / 10:00 EST / 15:00 GMT / 16:00 CET / 18:00 TRT / 19:00 GST
**Duration**: 1 hour.
## **Resources**
* [Recording](https://eu.bbcollab.com/recording/aa48a6315fa9461ab28c1a6726d9c65a)
* [Chair’s slides \[4.34 MB PPTX\]](https://blackboard.soton.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/xid-26503942_1)
* [Breaking Accessibility Out of the Silo \[1.27 MB PPTX\]](https://blackboard.soton.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/xid-26503941_1)
* [Meeting transcript \[700 KB RTF\]](https://blackboard.soton.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/xid-26544011_1)
* [Meeting chat \[22 KB TXT\]](https://blackboard.soton.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/xid-26544010_1)
## **Summary**
How can we create a university-wide culture of everyday accessibility? It’s a question often asked by those working in institutions that have rolled out Ally but are trying to build wider engagement with accessibility. In November’s International Ally User Group meeting we’ll learn how one university has done it!
## **Agenda**
1\. Breaking Accessibility Out of the Silo.
2\. Next meeting.
3\. Community updates.
4\. Any other business.
## **Session synopsis**
### Breaking Accessibility Out of the Silo
**Annie Heckel, Electronic Information Technology Accessibility Manager, Cornell University**
“How did Cornell University shift a university accessibility program from a siloed one-team project to a university-wide culture of everyday accessibility?
Annie Heckel, Electronic Information Technology Accessibility Manager, highlights how a combination of top-down and bottom-up accessibility advocacy has helped Cornell to progress from an organization with only scattered informal accessibility practices to their current organized but dispersed effort to embed accessibility into all academic and administrative units’ daily work”.\
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Matthew Deeprose ·
Matthew Deeprose ·