How Disability Pride PA Uses StreamYard To Host Accessible Events

Vicki Landers of Disability Pride PA realized that hosting in-person events wasn't entirely accessible for the disabled community. StreamYard became the perfect solution for streaming their events and with streaming, the organization increased their accessibility and secured more funding.

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We have a ton of people who have now said that it was this product that makes it more accessible for them to be able to participate…StreamYard has changed our life, it's changed my organization for the positive.

Vicki Landers•Founder and Executive Director, Disability Pride PA

How StreamYard is used at Disability Pride PA

After attending a one-day Disability Pride event in Philadelphia, Vicki Landers started the organization Disability Pride PA to host similar events year-round. Vicki quickly recognized that in-person events wouldn’t be very accessible for the community, so she turned to streaming and online events. With StreamYard, she can go live to her multiple social media accounts and give her community what she calls “on-demand disability”: events, panels, exercise and mindfulness classes, and community conversations that have skyrocketed in popularity. With StreamYard, the company has increased its viewership and, in turn, has increased its accessibility by 80%. They also have secured a steady income for the organization and three partnerships in the new year for future events.

I have actually trained four people on how to use StreamYard this year, getting ready for 2023. And it was so simple. Everybody on board, they know what they're doing...I just kind of played around with it and could figure it out. So it's that simple.

On-Demand Accessibility

Landers raved about how easy it is to host and attend events with StreamYard. Features like captioning, recording, multistreaming, and options to show sign language interpreters help Landers to include her entire audience. "All you have to do is log into Facebook or log onto YouTube. YouTube is even better because you don't have to have an account to be able to view on YouTube. So it just makes that even more accessible for more people to be able to use."

And what was the result?

StreamYard increased Disability Pride PA's viewership and accessibility, and has allowed them to plan for upward momentum. "I've been able to secure three contracts for next year...it has helped me increase my accessibility, I believe at least 80%."

Support with StreamYard

Landers applauds the StreamYard team and their commitment to constantly innovating the product and improving their accessibility. "It is simple. There is lots and lots of back-end support that you get, more than I have ever seen in most of the other things that people try and sell you. I could pick up the phone, I could email, I could ask as many questions as I wanted. I just got so much support, it is so simple, and they've made it so that it's simple to use. And each time I get on, there are better and better tools that I can use."

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Activism

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Use cases

Virtual events, exercise, and mindfulness classes: increasing events from just one day a year
Ability to include ASL interpreters on screen
Accessibility as a virtual event and on YouTube, making it easy to find for the community by using a familiar platform

Disability Pride PA has increased their viewership due to StreamYard’s ability to multistream and use captioning and scaled accessibility by 80%.

StreamYard’s ease-of-use and professional quality has allowed the Disability Pride PA team to gain three partnerships in the upcoming year and provided them with a consistent income.

StreamYard has made it incredibly easy to connect virtually to their community frequently–just what the organization set out to do in the first place.

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