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AAPA website Accessiblity
AAPA website Accessiblity
The Alberta Adapted Physical Activity Symposium is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience. We want everyone who visits to feel welcome and find the experience useful.
Our website endeavors to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1, level AA. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities and conformance with these guidelines will help make the web a more inclusive space.
By considering such things as media alternatives, semantic markup, keyboard support,
text contrast, and more, a current level of accessibility can be determined. The website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA,
meaning some parts of the content do not yet fully conform to the accessibility standard.
We are actively working to fix these issues to increase the accessibility and usability of our website.
Should you experience any difficulty in accessing the website, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can email us at apasymposium2023@gmail.com.
Conference Accessibilty
Conference Accessibilty
Transportation
MRU Parking Map- accessible parking is marked
Venue and Hosting
MRU Campus Map (PDF or webpage)
Washroom Accessibility: U-Wing 2nd floor will have accessible washrooms nearby as will the 3rd floor of W-Wing. Second floor W & Y washrooms have limited accessibility.
For additional washroom accessibility, or personal needs information, such as lactation rooms, or gender inclusive facilities, please refer here
Elevators: The Main Building has limited elevators, located towards the ends of T and Y wings, and the closest elevator to W wing is on 'Main Street'.
Physical Accessibility: Rooms T141 and T143 are older style lecture halls. Top tier of hall has a couple spaces accessible for people using wheelchairs. The speaker portion at the front of these halls has stairs.
W312 and W330 are flexibly tiered and more accessible for people using wheelchairs and mobility aids.
Classrooms have 24x18 work surfaces and have limited seating compatible with wheelchair access.
Sight impairment: The campus has limited aids for those with sight impairments. Note stairs are not demarcated with tactile/visual warning strips.
Speech Pick up/Assisted hearing devices: All rooms have the ability to use Mic/Voice uplift, except U216A.
Overall, the East Building is more modern and accessible than the older Main Building.
Dietary considerations for catered events are available. The questionnaire is available while registering. If you missed this step or have additional requirements, please contact apasymposium@gmail.com
Accommodations
Additional suggestions for accommodations include:
Days Inn by Wyndham Calgary South
Best Western Plus Suites Downtown
Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriot
Holiday Inn & Suites Calgary South
Hilton Garden Inn Calgary Downtown
These options are located within approx. 15 min drive to MRU and may offer different price points and accessible room layouts than the conference accommodations.
A limited number of MRU dormitory room options are also available, please contact apasymposium2023@gmail.com for more information.
Online Resources
Whova Event App: compatible with third party transcription and iOS accessibility options, live captioning available. Most functions compatible with screen readers. Please contact us if an accessibility issue is noted.
Zoom: compatible with third party or manual transcription, live captioning available, screen reader compatible. Also available: text formatting, 'dark mode', 'focus mode', and keyboard shortcuts.
Contact
Contact
If you have an accessibility question or request, please contact the AAPA team at apasymposium2023@gmail.com
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