Webinar on Web Accessibility for European public theatres

Dear all,

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I hope this email finds you well. I am writing in search of a speaker on website accessibility for a group of European public theatres.

I work for the European Theatre Convention, the largest network of public theatres in Europe, gathering 59 members in 31 countries. We organise a wide range of activities to create brilliant new theatre, support and develop people working in theatre, and fight for the European theatre sector in a political context. We are a non-profit organisation, co-funded by the European Union.

Among other things, we organise trainings and workshops for the staff of our member theatres, with a strong focus on gender equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility.

In that frame, we are looking to organise a webinar for communication and marketing staff as an intro to website accessibility, as not all our members’ websites are fully accessible yet, despite the EU directive on the accessibility of websites and mobile apps for the public sector. While all our members are publicly-funded in some proportion, not all are public organisations or located in the EU, so not all fall under that directive: we believe that they still should be aware of the directive’s existence and of accessibility requirements and best practices. Most of our member theatres outsource the actual development of their website, but the project management of website development, redesign and/or overhaul usually falls under the comms and marketing staff’s tasks, who therefore should know those requirements.

We would like to organise this webinar in the first weeks of March 2023, ideally on Wednesday 1 or Wednesday 8 March, in the afternoon (Central European Time CET). We are open to other dates depending on availabilities. For now, I am imagining a 2-hour intro webinar and I would expect around 15-20 participants. Would you be able to recommend a speaker or hold such a webinar? We can offer a fee of for holding this webinar (to be discussed directly), and my colleagues and I would manage the registration process, communication with the participants and the technical side (we use Zoom as this is the tool most of our colleagues are used to and can use in their working environment without being blocked by a firewall).

Depending on that first webinar and feedback from the participants, we could then imagine a second one going deeper in certain questions, or a repeat event for additional participants, but this could to be discussed in a second step.

Many thanks and warm regards from Berlin,

Hélène
Hélène Gauthier
Project & Network Manager
European Theatre Convention
c/o Deutsches Theater
Schumannstr 13 A
10117 Berlin, Germany
T: 0049 30 28 441 460
M: 0049 172 357 32 45
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