In January 2019, the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University cohosted the Cripping the Arts Symposium, which brought together artists, activists, and academics from across Canada to share in discussions and performances directed at surfacing dialogue and debate critical to the development of disability, Deaf, and mad arts. Along with co-curating the Symposium Program, our School designed and put into action the accessibility plan for these events. This access plan built on established accessibility practices, such as partnering with a Deaf-led organization to assemble a skilled ASL interpreter team, as well as emerging access practices, such as working with a graphic recorder who responded to keynotes and panel discussions through live drawings. As is our practice (Ignagni et al., 2019), we approached the design of this plan through an iterative and co-designed process, acknowledging that we can never know access completely, nor enact it perfectly and without friction.

Chandler, E., Ignagni, E., & Collins, K. (2021). Communicating access, accessing communication. (Dispatch). Studies in Social Justice, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v15i2.2657