Abstract
Overview of the proceedings of the 2020 Inclusion in Science, Learning a New Direction, Conference on Disability (ISLAND)
Highlights
Most of the ISLAND 2020 presenters agreed to allow their presentations to be video recorded and are available on YouTube for archival
Aira is a visual interpreter service to which blind and vision impaired (BVI) persons can subscribe, that assists them in their daily lives with navigation, and reading print materials in the home or in the community among numerous other purposes
The ISLAND conference, with the support of Princeton University, was able to offer the Aira service to any blind patron of the conference that requested it, to provide them with visual descriptions of PowerPoint slides that were being discussed by each speaker
Summary
Most of the ISLAND 2020 presenters agreed to allow their presentations to be video recorded and are available on YouTube for archival. This annual conference included presentations that featured innovative research done by science teachers, science education researchers, access technology developers, and policy makers, other disability conference organizers, and others interested in the full inclusion of persons with disabilities into the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce.
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