P4A is committed to providing universal access for all PDA events. Contact P4A at events@p4a.org to request ADA accommodations, such as interpretation, translation, etc. Please provide advance notice to arrange for accessibility needs.
IN-PERSON EVENTS: P4A schedules/coordinates interpreter requests using certified captioners from a few local captioning service vendors. Events over two hours require two (2) interpreters. We do our best to accomodate each interpreter request; however, depending on the interpreter's availability, travel arrangements, and timliness of the request, we may not be able to fulfill all requests.
VIRTUAL EVENTS: P4A conducts virtual events via Webex. Webex provides automatic closed-captioning/subtitles and language translation* using speech-to-text through automatic speech recognition (ASR), enabling accessibility for hearing-impaired participants or non-native English speakers. The subtitles appear as streaming text in a floating panel at the bottom of the presentation window. *Translation is available in several languages.
The video/recording file for all recorded PDA events contains automatic closed-captions in the form of subtitles applied directly to the video.