What make conferences accessible for you?

Zara Todd

I've recently come back from the Global Disability Summit. Which brought together 4000 people from across the world to discuss everything disability. They did a lot of things at the summit to try and make it more accessible, including easy audio, a quiet room and additional accessible toilets, but I often found the ambient noise in the space overwhelming. The whole point of the conference is to take part, so I didn't want to sit quietly in the quiet spaces, but it felt quite inaccessible being in the conference.

Another organisation, the Zero Project, recently published a guide to accessible conferences that I think is pretty good.

I'm wondering what makes conferences accessible and inclusive for other people?