Events & Activities

Accessible digital learning is an essential part of equal opportunity in education or in the workplace. Join us now to celebrate GAAD 2026 and start to create more accessible and inclusive learning content. The Showcase module for our Designing Accessible Learning Content (DALC) Programme has 9 free lessons. You can sign up and access the free training here – https://showcase-elahub.talentlms.com/

As part of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), this design challenge invites creatives in Indonesia to reflect on a simple question: why does accessibility matter? Participants are encouraged to create and share visual content based on their own perspectives and experiences. The interpretation is open, as long as it stays connected to the theme. Participants will share their work on social media, helping amplify the message and reach broader audiences. Through this process, the challenge hopes to open up more space for voices, stories, and ideas around accessibility, including everyday barriers, inclusive design, and how accessibility shapes people’s lives.

Celebrate GAAD 2026 with a free customised Accessibility Assessment Report to help your organisation get started with more accessible learning. With the tailored feedback from the eLa1000 assessment you can discover your accessibility learning gaps, understand your compliance position and get your roadmap. Find out more and complete your eLa1000 Accessibility Assessment today – https://ela1000assessment.elahub.net/

Make the iOSDevUK conference app accessible and you could win a free ticket to iOSDevUK 2026 and a free one year subscription of RocketSim Pro! May 7th to May 21st (GAAD) Details: https://www.iosdevuk.com/competition

On May 7 at 11 AM ET, join Christopher M. Lee, PhD, CEO & President of the G3ict and Managing Director of the IAAP, and Corbb O’Connor, Director of Thought Leadership at Level Access, for a practical conversation about sustaining leadership support and building impactful learning programs in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. You’ll leave with concrete ideas for strengthening accessibility education across your organization and positioning your efforts in ways that executives recognize and support long-term.

Turn empathy into action. Join 55 Minutes and Salvage Garden to 3D-print tools for PwDs and dive into inclusive design. Standard product design often overlooks the needs of People with Disabilities (PwDs). A simple task like using chopsticks or opening a can can be a daily barrier. Through this Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) event, you will get to join 55 Minutes and Salvage Garden for an intimate, hands-on workshop where we turn empathy into action. To ensure every participant receives personalised guidance, we are limiting this session to 12 participants. You will have the direct support needed to produce your own 3D-printed assistive tool.

My card matching game Ploppy Pairs is accessible via the support of VoiceOver on iOS, macOS and tvOS. It always tells you the index of the card, what image it has on it when you tap it and if you found a matching pair or not. During the 05/14/2026 and 05/23/2026 all cards are blank by default and there is a toggle where you can show the images or hide them again. The idea behind this is to bring more attention to accessibility and bring people without visual impairment to give the game a try by using VoiceOver. The app is also designed for kids – so it can be played from very early ages on. The app is available world wide (except China) and is localized into the following languages: English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. Minimum OS versions are: iOS 16.0 macOS 12.0 tvOS 16.0

Join GivePulse as we walk through the practical steps organizations across nonprofits, higher education, and the public sector can take to make their volunteer events genuinely welcoming to everyone. From writing clear, descriptive event listings that give volunteers the context they need, to choosing and communicating about accessible venues, to crafting thoughtful sign-up forms that ask the right questions, we’ll cover the full volunteer journey through an accessibility lens. Whether you’re just starting to think about inclusion or looking to strengthen practices you already have in place, you’ll walk away with concrete strategies and tools to create volunteer experiences where everyone feels informed, included, and empowered to participate. This webinar will take place Thursday, May 14 from 2 until 3 p.m. Eastern Time (U.S.)

Accessibility isn’t a feature, it’s a foundation. Learn how to design digital experiences that truly include people with visually impairment What does it really mean to design for everyone? In this workshop, you’ll go beyond checklists and guidelines to truly understand how visually impaired users experience the digital world – and what it takes to build something better. We’ll start by exploring why accessible design isn’t just good ethics, it’s good design. Through an immersive empathy-building activity, you’ll see your work through new eyes. Then, we’ll dig into real-world examples, sharpen your UX/UI decision-making, and leave you with actionable best practices you can apply the moment you’re back at your desk.

Preflight is an AI-built app launch preflight checking service operated by Fount Lab in Seoul. For GAAD 2026, we published a blog post in Korean about accessibility patterns commonly seen on Korean web (color contrast, form labels, keyboard focus, image alt, Hangul font fallback) and how AI-generated frontends frequently overlook them. The post also includes our own site’s Lighthouse and axe results — 94 / 100 accessibility (lowest of two pages), 9 axe nodes, classified as BLOCK 0 / SOON 2 / EXPERT 0 / DECIDED 2. Design trade-offs are quoted verbatim from our design doc so readers can compare with their own pre-launch checks. https://launchpreflight.com/blog/accessibility-day-2026-self-check During May 15 – 28 (KST), the GAAD2026 promo code grants +3 security check credits, also usable for accessibility checks. Redeemable on the account page. The accessibility checker beta separately offers 2 free monthly checks. https://launchpreflight.com/a11y-preflight/start GAAD is an awareness day, not a marketing day. Our aim is a small contribution to Korean-language accessibility content, where the gap is visible — the official GAAD site supports 9 languages, none of them Korean.