Accessibility

American Sign Language interpreters are available at ALTA48 upon request. Please make requests at least two weeks in advance of a given event, with a list of events you plan to attend (that is, by October 11 for the conference). To request an interpreter, contact Kelsi Vanada by email or by phone at (520) 621-6123.

CART captioning is available upon request at ALTA48. Please make requests at least two weeks in advance of a given event, with a list of events you plan to attend (that is, by October 11 for the conference). To request an interpreter, contact Kelsi Vanada by email or by phone at (520) 621-6123.

All plenary sessions will be equipped with a microphone and speakers. Larger conference session rooms will also have microphones and speakers to ensure that sound carries well for the audience in larger spaces.

If it would help you to sit closer to the front / to the speaker, please look for the stretchy blue seat bands with disability access symbols printed on them and take a seat in these reserved spaces. Interpreters and captioners may also use these seats, when present, along with anyone else who needs access to the front of the room.

Our program book will be available as a printed booklet, and as an accessible PDF.

Workshop leaders and panelists are asked to provide large-print versions of any printed materials they hand out during their session. Make sure to provide at least five copies in large-print format in boldface, fourteen-to-sixteen-point font size, on white paper stock for those who may be visually impaired.

The conference meeting space at the Tucson Marriott University Park Hotel is all on the ground level, and two accessible restrooms are located near the meeting space. All event rooms will include wheelchair-accessible seating distributed throughout the space. Accessible guest rooms are available and can be reserved when booking through ALTA’s reservation link when it is live on our registration page.

The Tucson Marriott University Park does not have wheelchairs to rent.

A Quiet Room will be made available to attendees during lunch hours. No conversations or phone calls, please.

ALTA hosts Cold Beer, Cold Readings and the BIPOC Literary Translators Caucus Reading in accessible venues outside the Tucson Marriott University Park Hotel. We make every effort to keep offsite event venues close to the conference hotel for everyone’s ease of access. Descriptions of the access features at ALTA-sponsored offsite event locations will be given in the ALTA48 program book.

Read more about transportation, including accessible options, on the Hotel & Location web page.

ALTA does not sponsor all offsite events. Offsite event organizers that have listed their event in the conference program book have certified that they verified that the venue where their event will be held is accessible according to standards of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA). Descriptions of the access features at offsite event locations that sent their information to ALTA will be given in the ALTA48 program book. If you have any questions or concerns about specific offsite events, please contact the organizers of the event directly (contact information will be listed in the program book for offsite events that sent their information to ALTA).

Hotel Floor Plan: View the Marriott’s floor plan here.

Visual Cues: Find a document with visual cues for the Marriott here.

Accessible Hotel Features

• Property has elevators
• Service animals are welcome

Accessible Areas with Accessible Routes from Public Entrance

• Entrance to onsite business center is accessible
• Main entrance is accessible
• Meeting spaces are accessible
• Onsite restaurants are accessible
• Room and suites access through the interior corridor

Guest Room Accessibility

• Accessible vanities
• Adjustable height hand-held shower wand
• Alarm clock telephone ringers
• Bathtub grab rails
• Closed caption TV
• Deadbolts on guest room and suites doors
• Electronic room key
• Flashing door knockers
• Guest room and suites doors self-closing
• Hearing accessible rooms and/or kits
• Lever handles on guest room doors
• Lowered deadbolts on guest room doors
• Lowered electrical outlets
• Lowered viewports in guest room doors
• Mobility accessible rooms
• Non-slip grab rails in the bathroom
• Roll-in shower
• Room windows open
• Safety chains and/or latches on guest doors
• Secondary locks on room windows
• TTY/TTD compatible
• Toilet seat at wheelchair height – toilet for disabled
• Transfer showers in guest rooms
• Viewports in guest room and suites doors

Requests onsite are best directed to the Registration table during conference hours. No one is required to disclose a disability, but we can better meet specfic needs if we know well ahead of the conference that a reasonable disability-related accommodation will be needed. We will do our best to meet accessibility needs that come up during the conference.

All moderators, panelists, workshop leaders, readers, and participants are asked to help make our programming accessible by following these guidelines for giving accessible presentations.

If your session or reading will be ASL interpreted, you must agree to provide copies of your notes or translations to the interpreter in advance, so that they may have adequate time to prepare.