i want to thank my panelists, lauren applebaum and philip pauli for the amazing presentation, and we will be back with you very shortly. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] .. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] were just waiting one moment to make sure captions and asl are ready. excellent. i want to thank you and welcome you to our second panel of the day which is on not forgetting people with disabilities when planning events. it's very easy to plan an event at your home or another location that may not be assessable and people also plan events not thinking that they want to exclude someone bu

i'm going to turn it over to lauren applebaum who will talk about outreach to the presidential candidatesen, take it away. >> thank you, everyone. i know it's an early morning with the metro not working, so we appreciate everyone who made it here. so mike phillips said, he brought up what brought us to why are we paying attention to this issue in the 2016 cycle. to what we decide to do is we sent our young fellows iowa and new hampshire where they spent nearly two months tinting town halls and other meetings with all of the candidates, all 22 presidential candidates ever in the race from the major parties, received visits from our fellows who went and sat in the town halls and asked them critical questions on issues of employment for people with disability and other issues relating to it people with disabilities are wanting to hear from their elected officials. so you will see, here are some pictures and i will describe the pictures are up on the screen. you have our democracy associate justin schappell anything bernie sanders, if the next picture you two of our fellows taking facility wi

one is to send it to lauren applebaum and we can have a captioned and at a transcript. you do decide to upload the video yourself, you should create a transcript. that can accompany the video and be used for the closed captioning. this can be done in microsoft word or pages if you are using a mac operating system. if this is -- if this is the type of document you intend to share with people -- if you wanted to use this transcript and create a document with images and graphs, it is really important that the document is accessible. to make a document accessible, you should use text that is easy to read. no fancy text. a great text to use is georgia font or rodana. also use properly formatted heading. it is not enough to make the text large. it needs to be formatted as a heading. otherwise, if the person is using a screen reader, it will not identify the header. if you are using images, be sure to provide alternate text otherwise it will refer to the image as the file name. always provide alternate text description of the image. if you decide to add images into your docume