Chattanooga State To Host Accessibility Awareness Summit May 20
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 - by Betty Proctor, Chattanooga State
Chattanooga State Community College will host the 3rd Annual Signal Centers Accessibility Awareness Summit, Thursday, May 20, at 10 a.m. This all-digital event, free to all participants, is held in conjunction with Global Accessibility Awareness Day and presented live via Zoom with both captioning and interpreters provided.
A series of six breakout sessions featuring accessibility experts and leaders in their fields will inspire transformative conversations about the inclusion of individuals with different abilities as well as accessibility innovations and ideas.
The keynote speaker will be San Francisco-based architect, Chris Downey, whose life changed dramatically following the removal of brain tumor that left him blind. Downey courageously found a way to continue his career by using a printer that could emboss architectural drawings so that he could read and understand by touch. His keynote, Architecture for the Blind is based on Universal Design, which was coined by architect Ronald Mace to describe the concept of “designing all products and the built environment be aesthetic and useable to the greatest extent possible.”