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Considering the Audience Members you Typically Don’t Think About
As I’ve mentioned a few times in the past, either in these pages or on social, I’m in the process of writing a book on inclusive speaking. Actually, I’ve been working on that book more less diligently for the better part of the last 4.5 years.
The book is meant to help speaking professionals become more inclusive in their approach to creating content and delivering from the platform, so that they can better reach the thousands of audience members out there who have disabilities, are getting older, or are somehow marginalized by our use of technology. I’m currently wrapping up what I believe to be the last chapter of that book, so I’ll definitely share more on that in the near future.
For today’s post though, I’d like to follow up on the conversation started last week, in which I was exploring some of the different ways in which a live, in-person or virtual experience might go wrong for audience members who live with one or more disabilities, and the importance for speaking professionals to learn from other people’s perspectives.
Very early on in my writing process, I figured there wouldn’t be any point to writing a book such as this one, if it didn’t put people with disabilities, their experiences, their various needs and their expectations front and center. As I was working towards…
