<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">Apologies for the cross-posting: </span></p><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-1b4fa842-7fff-a7fd-708b-d9e3350e5bad"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Virtual Workshop date and time: Sunday, October 17, 2021, from 12:00 to 14:00 Japan Standard Time</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Registration closes on September 17, 2021.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please reach out to <a href="mailto:inclusion-assets21@acm.org">inclusion-assets21@acm.org</a> if you have questions or concerns. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The purpose of this event is three-fold: (1) to reflect on current opportunities and challenges in accessibility research conducted in the Asia and Oceania regions, (2) to explore alternative and empowering visions for accessibility research and researchers in Asia and Oceania contexts, where research agendas, user groups, and contexts transcend “user studies” to include aspects of lived experiences, narratives, and stories, and (3) to define and identify appropriate language to refer to disability groups in the Asia and Oceania context, expanding the current terminology of marginalization, underserved, and developing, to those of empowering, equitable, and emancipatory.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Here is a tentative schedule:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:47pt;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">·</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Settle in and introduce the purpose and agenda</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:47pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">·</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Short presentations from Invited guests about their research in Asia and Oceania regions</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:47pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family: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 style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We also encourage those eligible to apply to the Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship which covers the ASSETS conference registration fee:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><a href="https://assets21.sigaccess.org/d_i_scholarship.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://assets21.sigaccess.org/d_i_scholarship.html</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop Co-organizers include Dhruv Jain, Sayan Sarcar, and Cynthia Bennett.</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div></div>