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Discussion on: Confessions of a Conference Speaker

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Marcy Sutton

Don't forget about accessibility for your audience.

I would add that it's extremely important to explain what's on the screen for people with vision impairments. It can also help those in the back of the room, and on the off-chance that the recorded video pans over to you and your slides never come back (happened to me in my first JSConf talk). It's awful to have a punchline embedded in a GIF or image, and you're left out of the joke if you can't see it.

I also wrote this piece on writing winning abstracts particularly for accessibility talks, which I'd heard "don't get accepted to mainstream conferences" yet my speaking career showed otherwise. Perhaps it could help some of your readers: marcysutton.com/writing-winning-ta...

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Laurie

Absolutely! Lindsey Kopacz wrote a great post on accessible conference talks earlier this week.

dev.to/lkopacz/10-ways-to-help-acc...

And I always love your abstract blog post. May have read it a handful of times...