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Iva Cheung @ivacheung.bsky.social
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Certified Professional Editor • Plain language trainer • Indexer • Health policy researcher • @MidlifeBook contributor • #AngryJellyDonut • she/her
May 8, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Seeing lots and lots of screen shots this week. If you're sharing a screen shot (or any image), please add alt text so that it's accessible to folks who use screen readers! 🙏 Here's a guide if you'd like to know how: help.twitter.com/en/using-twitt… I know a lot of people who generously take the time to type out image descriptions if they notice alt text missing. But if you took a screen shot, you have access to the source text and can easily copy and paste it.

Transcribing can introduce errors and is more time consuming.
May 6, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
ME: "My playlists are disproportionately composed of music by Canadian white dudes, and I should really try to diversify my listening."

ME, IN TIMES OF STRESS: [*stubbornly clutches her Canadian-white-dude music like a security blanket*] It does not help that these days "times of stress" = ALWAYS
Mar 17, 2022 • 67 tweets • 21 min read
Today (and the next two Thursdays), I’m at the Accessible Publishing Summit. I’ll be using the hashtag #APSchool, so feel free to mute or follow along as desired! What are print disabilities? A subset of a disabilities that prevent people from reading print. Can include visual, mobility, or comprehension disabilities. (Defined by the Copyright Act)

These can be permanent or temporary/situational disabilities. #APSchool
Oct 3, 2021 • 45 tweets • 19 min read
Live-tweeting from the #DisabilityPolitics101 workshop today. Feel free to mute or follow along as desired! Starting off with @mssinenomine, who has titled her talk “Everything Sucks for a Reason.”

That’s how a lot of us are feeling about what’s been going on with the pandemic, for example—the government’s response or lack of response.

#DisabilityPolitics101
Sep 21, 2021 • 83 tweets • 28 min read
In @govplainlang's Federal #PlainLanguageSummit today and will be live-tweeting. Feel free to either mute that hashtag or follow along, as desired! Keynote by @CynthiaBaur1: "Would *more* plain language have saved us from the worst of the pandemic?" #PlainLanguageSummit
Sep 21, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
C'monnnnnn, Edmonton-Strathcona. 🤞🤞🤞🍊 #Elxn44 YESSSSS!

C'monnnnnn, Edmonton-Griesbach 🤞🤞🤞🍊 #Elxn44
Aug 12, 2021 • 122 tweets • 44 min read
Today I'm attending the symposium "Adapting Comics for Blind and Low Vision Readers" and will try to live-tweet. (At my in-laws' where the internet isn't super reliable, so I may be fading in and out.)

I'll be using the hashtag #ComicsA11y, so mute or follow along as desired! Nick Sousanis (@Nsousanis), who wrote his dissertation in comic book form and aimed to make his work as accessible as possible but knew that there were people he was still leaving out. He began collecting resources on making comics more accessible. #ComicsA11y
Aug 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If you hate masks, is it 'cause you don't have a capybara mask? BECAUSE I CAN GET YOU A CAPYBARA MASK. I ALSO HAVE THIS ANGLERFISH MASK. I GET LOTS OF "I LIKE YOUR MASK"S WHEN I WEAR THIS. MAYBE GETTING COMPLIMENTED ON YOUR MASK WILL MAKE YOU MORE LIKELY TO WEAR A MASK.
May 27, 2021 • 27 tweets • 9 min read
Last day of this conference! I had to miss the first session, but now I'm in "Best Practices for Communicating through Imagery" with speakers Kathleen Walker and David Pearl. #ihahlc21 Pictograms vs. icons—what's the difference?
Pictograms must be a literal representation. Icons may be literal or abstract.

Pictograms convey a complete idea with no additional explanation needed. #ihahlc21
May 26, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Now tweeting from the session "Connecting the social determinants of health and health literacy" with speakers Speaker: Lauri J. DeRuiter-Willems and Jennifer Cannon. #ihahlc21 They recognized a connection between social determinants of health and health literacy, but the connection wasn't as clear to their students. Came up with a privilege activity for participants to self-reflect. #ihahlc21
May 25, 2021 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Last session for the day! (I might duck out early to catch the BC COVID press conference.)

Integrating Patient Stories in Health Literacy Training
Speakers: Farrah Schwartz, Sophia Wong & Jack (John) R. Ireland, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada #ihahlc21 The University Health Network's patient engagement portfolio supports UHN to provide equitable, clear, accessible, timely and compassionate care.
#ihahlc21
May 25, 2021 • 30 tweets • 10 min read
Next session is Kristen Gosse on "Healthy Content Matters: Bringing Patient Education Online." (I'm listening but may not be able to live-tweet very well because I'm eating.) #ihahlc21 InJoy Health Education is a company that started off as a video-based company, branched off into print materials and, especially this past year, online sessions. #ihahlc21
May 25, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Next session! I'm listening to Brenda Linares's presentation: Librarians partner with the Juntos Center for Advancing Latino Health to provide credible health information. #ihahlc21 In the US, Spanish-speaking immigrants are particularly affected by negative health outcomes associated with low health literacy. Health literacy is a social determinant of health. #ihahlc21
May 25, 2021 • 37 tweets • 12 min read
For the next 3 days I'm going to try to catch as much of the @iha_the Health Literacy Conference as I can and live-tweet from the sessions I attend.

I'll be using the hashtag #ihahlc21, so feel free to mute or follow along as desired! Keynote speaker today is Dr. @rayblock1, on "Literacy Tests and the Modern Day Jim Crow." #ihahlc21
Jan 2, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This year I want to add one vegetarian dinner to my weekly repertoire. Suggestions of your favourites welcome! Conditions:
•not soy based
•not an attempt to replicate meat
•easy enough to cook on a weekday
•easy to find ingredients
•preferably cook once, eat multiple days Oh, yeah, the kid won't eat mushrooms. But it's a texture thing—he's OK if I chop them up fine.
Jul 12, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Tomorrow's a special day, folks! HOW WILL YOU BE CELEBRATING? Screen shot from Google Calendar showing today, July 12, and tomorrow, July 13. Tomorrow is labelled For those of you relatively new to this utter disgrace of a Twitter feed (Hi! 👋 Welcome!), here's a primer on why you'll see me tweeting about pubes from time to time for apparently no good reason. Rest assured that there's a VERY GOOD REASON. stronglang.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/pub…
Jun 9, 2019 • 29 tweets • 9 min read
Last concurrent session! @sesquiotic talking about translating medicalese into everyday English. #Editors19 Why do we need to translate medicalese? Because health is about people. But in an attempt to appear objective, medical writers remove the people from their writing. #Editors19
Jun 9, 2019 • 34 tweets • 19 min read
In @H_E_Saunders and @nabetafish's session on distressing content and trauma resiliency. #Editors19 @H_E_Saunders @nabetafish How do we take care of ourselves when we encounter distressing content? Because it does have to be looked at and edited. #Editors19
May 24, 2019 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Ida Pranteau, panellist on how patients want to be treated.

Fell out of a tree at 12 and tore up her arm. Spent 4 months in hospital and needed 2 skin graft surgeries. The doctor said, "Do you know how much money you're costing the healthcare system?" #BCSUC19 After that she didn't ever want to see the doctor.

"Racism in health care against Indigenous people is alive and well." #BCSUC19
Apr 26, 2019 • 34 tweets • 10 min read
For the next hour or so I’ll be tweeting from the BC Psychosocial Rehabilitation Advanced Practice webinar, "Using Tension-Based Practice to Promote Recovery-Orientation in the Inpatient Context." I’ll be using the hashtag #BCPSR if you want to follow along or mute! The speaker today is Shu-Ping Chen, assistant professor of occupational therapy at the University of Alberta. She’s the author of “Recovery Education Program for Inpatient Mental Health Providers,” published by the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists. #BCPSR
Feb 3, 2019 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
I was at #EMH2019 yesterday and today but couldn't live-tweet 'cause there was no wifi. #irony .@CREST_BD has a great summary up from yesterday: crestbd.ca/2019/02/01/emh… #EMH2019