Accessibility Ambassadors: Design with Care: A Trauma-Informed Approach for Harm Reduction

In this presentation, Melissa Eggleston will introduce the concept of trauma and discuss the importance of a trauma-informed approach in the design of technology. She'll explore practical examples in design research, website design, and content creation, with time for Q&A and resources for further learning. The presentation is ideal for designers and anyone else responsible for making/managing websites.

Melissa Eggleston started Birdcall in 2020 to focus on helping organizations that are changing the world for the better—socially, economically, and/or environmentally. She specializes in trauma-informed user experience (UX) research, trauma-informed UX design, inclusive design, and teaching others on user experience topics.

Design with Care: A Trauma-Informed Approach for Harm Reduction
Thursday, August 22, noon-1 p.m.

Registration for this session is required. Let us know if you are attending. By default, we enable auto-captioning in the webinar. Please let us know what additional accommodations we can provide. Two weeks notice (August 8) will help us to better fulfill requests. This session will be recorded, captioned, and shared with the Google Group.

About Accessibility Ambassadors

Accessibility Ambassadors is a group of University employees from across all campuses who are passionate about making U of M digital resources more accessible online. They bring different skills, strengths, and backgrounds, but all want to create an inclusive and accessible community at the U of M.

They host events to teach, advocate, and discuss digital accessibility topics and strive to be resources for the University community.

To learn about more accessibility-related events at the University of Minnesota, please visit Accessible U.

For more information about the Ambassadors, join the Google Group or send an email to: accessibility-ambassadors@umn.edu.