Diversity Days 2021 "Accessibility is always the first choice"
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The TU Dresden is a meeting point for the diversity of life situations - both those of students and employees. In order to make the diversity of life situations at our university visible and also tangible for everyone, the Diversity Days take place annually under the leadership of the Diversity Management Department. In 2021, the motto is "Accessibility is always the first choice".
During the annual Diversity Days the student council's Department for Inclusion will be offering to counsel students on studying at TUD who are disabled or living with chronic illness. These sessions will be offered from Monday to Thursday. Interested students can choose between an online session or a personal appointment in the Department office. For further questions or to make an appointment, please send an e-mail to inklusion@stura.dresden.de
This year, only digital formats will take place. We look forward to welcoming you to our events!
Main program points
Monday, 08 November 2021
Workshop Barrier-free Internet / Social Media: "Just be able to be there" - create digital accessibility yourself with just a few clicks from 10:00 - 13:00 p.m.
Description:
In addition to theoretical explanations, Markus Ertl will sensitize participants in a very practical way to how each and every individual can make a contribution to more accessibility on the Internet through their own social media accounts.
Seminar leader: Markus Ertl, digital accessibility consultant
Location: Online
Registration required: by e-mail to
Workshop Sign Language Course "The language of the dancing hands" from 12:30 -15:00 p.m.
Description:
- Dive into the world of the dancing hands. In this online taster course you will get to know the world of sign language. Two deaf speakers will introduce you to the culture and language of the deaf. You will learn interesting details about the life of deaf people and learn the first basic signs.
- Set out into the diverse and lively world of silence and let your hands dance!
Seminar leader: Petra Novotná, Scouts Sign Language for All
Location: Online
Registration required: by e-mail to
Tuesday, 09 November 2021
Workshop "Barriers in Digital Documents - What to Consider?" from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
In this workshop participants will gain insight into what barriers can exist in digital documents. Examples will be used to show how documents are reviewed and what requirements need to be met.
Main topics:
- Requirements for accessible documents - what does this include and who needs it?
- How the screen reader works (incl. demo)
- Insight into the PDF-UA standard
- Checking PDF files with regard to accessibility
- Discussion of individual errors
- Working techniques with Word/PowerPoint
- Checking documents before export
- Creation of alternative texts
- Revision of the PDF file
Seminar leader: Jens Voegler, Working Group Services Disability and Study
Location: Online, Zoom
Registration required: by e-mail to
Workshop "Curious about the most beautiful language in the world? - Give it a try!" from 11:00 -12:30 p.m.
Description:
With this course we offer the participants an insight into the German Sign Language (DGS). The participants will learn the first signs and the finger alphabet (e.g. spelling names) for basic communication, the natural facial expressions and gestures, which are very important for communication in this language and with hearing-impaired people. The course offers an ideal introduction to German Sign Language. No special knowledge or other prerequisites are needed.
Seminar leader: GebärdenVerstehen e.Kfr. We make language visible
Location: Online
Registration required: by e-mail to
Wednesday, 10.11.2021
Workshop "Gender-sensitive writing and easy to understand" from 09:00 - 13:00 p.m.
The workshop gives an overview of easy, simple, clear as well as gender-sensitive language. The TU spin-off Verso will briefly introduce itself and implemented projects. You will get to know the recommendations for easy-to-understand texts and, above all, learn how to use them in practice. You are very welcome to bring "difficult" text samples from your own practice.
Program:
- 09:00-10:00 a.m. - Introductions, Verso project and company, overview of light, simple, clear language
- 10:10-12:00 a.m. - Writing simply in theory and practice
- 12:10-13:00 p.m. - Gender-sensitive language in easy-to-understand texts
Seminar leader: Juliane Heidelberger, VERSO Dresden gGmbH
Location: Online, BigBlueButton
Registration required: by e-mail to
Vernissage "Mental cinema - I hear what you see"
Description:
The digital exhibition "I hear what you see" invites participants to approach the topic of "accessibility" in an informal and creative way. After the Prorector for University Culture, Professor Roswitha Böhm, opens the event with a short welcoming speech, the young comedian Carl Josef will demonstrate, with a best-of video of previous performances as well as a personal statement, how one can view one's own disability and barriers of everyday life boldly. The exhibition itself challenges guests to let images and representations be conveyed to them not through the eyes, but through the ears. The audio descriptions are available in German and English.
The following link will take you to our accessible exhibition "I hear what you see": https://elvis.inf.tu-dresden.de/diversity
Active break - barrier-free from 18:00 - 18:15 p.m.
Description:
Anyone who feels like moving after the "Mental cinema" is cordially invited to participate in an edition of the "Active break" format initiated last year by TU Dresden's health management. Accordingly to the principals of the Diversity Days, the video is barrier-free. In this sense: "Ready for action!" and lots of fun for everyone!
Location: Online, Zoom: https://tu-dresden.zoom.us/j/86790231530?pwd=aWU4S2xyQm9iZFRhR1Q3dHBNdlJzdz09
Thursday, 11.11.2021
Workshop "Cool head instead of nervous flutter! Exam and presentation anxiety - a common but surmountable hurdle"
from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Description:
In this online workshop, we interactively impart knowledge about exam and presentation anxiety and present the online program funded by TU Diversity Management to overcome such anxiety. Prof. Hoyer is available to answer all scientific and practical treatment questions, from self-help to therapy.
Seminar leader: Professor Jürgen Hoyer, Online Program against Test Anxiety - OPTA, Chair of Behavioral Psychotherapy
Location: Online, Zoom
Registration required: by e-mail to
Workshop "Thoughts are [barrier] - free?! An excursion through your own head" from 11:00 - 12:30 p.m.
Description:
Barriers are everywhere. For some insurmountable, for others not. Some barriers are easy to see and even easy to remove. Then there are some you can't even see. But you can feel them. They are in your head. But how do they actually get in there? This workshop invites you to experiment with your own thoughts. We would like to make you the offer to tear down the barriers together with us (or at least to wiggle them).
Seminar leader: Karin Mannewitz, QuaBIS project (qualification of education and inclusion officers in Saxony)
Location: Online, Zoom
Registration required: by e-mail to
Workshop "Disability in the media" from 13:00 - 14:30 p.m.
Description:
"Bravely she masters her fate" or "despite his disability he works": the reporting about disabled people in this country still has very emotional connotations. Sometimes people with disabilities are everyday heroes who don't let it get them down, sometimes they are victims of their fate and suffer from their disability. But can't they just be themselves because they have learned an interesting profession, are committed to something or are celebrities?
In this workshop Jonas Karpa from Leidmedien.de will show participants clichés in the media and how to avoid them. He will also address topics and individual cases abd real-life experiences that could be reported on. There will also be tips for interview situations and accessible communication.
Leidmedien.de is a project of the Berlin SOZIALHELDEN. The team advises media professionals on reporting about disabled people, highlights individual cases and provides information about debates concerning inclusion and disability in the media.
Seminar leader: Jonas Karpa, SOZIALHELDEN e.V.
Location: Online
Registration required: by e-mail to
We offer written interpreters for all events. If you have special needs in addition to the written interpreters, we would be happy to hear from you at . Please help us to support you!