Celebrate GAAD 2025 by Joining the eLa1000 — Benchmark Accessibility, Drive Change, and Plant a Tree! Help shape the future of accessible learning by taking part in eLa1000 — a pioneering initiative designed to benchmark accessibility across the Learning & Development (L&D) industry. Our goal? Empower 1,000 organisations to assess, improve, and lead the way in accessible, inclusive learning design. What’s involved? Just 10–15 minutes of your time to complete our 60-question Accessibility Assessment — designed to identify key strengths and opportunities in your organisation’s approach to accessibility. What you’ll get: A FREE customised Accessibility Assessment Report with tailored feedback and practical guidance, including resources to support accessible, inclusive learning strategy. And for every completed assessment, we’ll plant a tree. Take part this GAAD and help create a more inclusive learning future for millions of people with disabilities and access needs. Start your eLa1000 Accessibility Assessment today – https://ela1000assessment.elahub.net/
Event Type: Activities
Join Us in Celebrating GAAD 2025 with a Free Accessibility Learning Opportunity! At eLaHub, we launched our very first Taster module for the DALC (Designing Accessible Learning Content) Programme during GAAD 2023 to support the mission of getting everyone talking, thinking, and learning about digital inclusion and disability awareness. Thanks to the incredible response — over 500 participants and invaluable feedback from learning practitioners and disabled learners — we saw the powerful potential of this resource to drive meaningful change in how learning content is designed. That’s why we’ve evolved our original Taster into the DALC Showcase module — a free module available to everyone, with sample lessons from the full programme to get you started with creating more accessible and inclusive learning content. And this year to celebrate GAAD 2025, for a limited time until 30th June, complete the Showcase module and receive an exclusive eLaHub “Committed to Accessible and Inclusive Learning Content” digital badge. Sign up and complete the DALC showcase module here – https://showcase-elahub.talentlms.com/
Throughout GAAD week, we will be sharing on the Web for All Movement’s social media profiles (Instagram, Facebook and Linkedin) testimonials from some people with disabilities in our network, telling what they do on the web when they find accessible websites and applications, for example. Developing digital channels with accessibility can no longer be seen as a favor or as an unnecessary investment. This thinking is outdated and urgently needs to be updated. Digital accessibility is provided for in the Brazilian Inclusion Law (LBI – 13.146), more specifically in article 63. There is also a very recent ABNT standard – NBR 17225 – with all the detailed recommendations used globally to make websites accessible. The campaign theme chosen for this year is “We are here: accessibility is not a favor!” This concept was chosen because, despite all the barriers, people with disabilities are present on the web every day. They are working, studying, creating, consuming. It is not about the future: it is about presence. And ensuring digital accessibility is not a favor, it is the minimum. It is recognizing a basic right. In addition to showing these people how to generate more connection with society, we will share educational content on how to develop accessible digital projects. We will also teach how to identify accessibility flaws on websites and how to correct them.
How people can participate:
a) Reposting our posts to raise awareness in your network.
b) Tagging people and companies in the comments of our posts and encouraging your contacts to reflect on this urgent and necessary topic.
c) Sharing this issue with the leadership and colleagues of the company where you work and suggesting that they start a review of accessibility on the organization’s internal and external digital channels.
d) Making your own posts more accessible by describing the images, captioning videos and ensuring adequate contrast in the images you post.
e) Taking advantage of the commemorative date to create themed corporate events to raise awareness among the internal public of the company where you work.
As Google Maps Volunteers, Local Guides are celebrating their 10th anniversary contributing data (photos, reviews, videos and rates) on Google Maps. We have dedicated the month of May 2025 to review our activities towards accessibility and inclusion. This will help us make more helpful and useful contributions for billions of users worldwide. Join us!
With today a new reading beta feature is released for users of English Wikipedia: Dark Mode. It was one of the most requested features by our communities over the years. Working closely with the communities as part of the new dark mode rollout to improve content accessibility awareness was a crucial part in the process. More language wikis will follow in the next few weeks.
At Salesforce, the Product Accessibility and Inclusive Design (PAID), Office of Accessibility, and Abilityforce team are excited to host a number of events honoring GAAD. We’ll be hosting a fireside chat with Paula Goldman, EVP of Ethical and Humane Use of Technology, and Dr. Victor Santiago Pineda, serial social impact entrepreneur and disability rights advocate, on Inclusive Innovation with AI. They’ll discuss how AI can be leveraged to create accessible solutions for people with disabilities, the role of inclusive design in AI development, and what new technical capabilities and opportunities are emerging as a result of inclusive AI. Continuing our conversations with AI, we’re offering a roundtable discussion on AI & Accessibility, with special guest Mike Hess, founder and executive director of Blind Institute of Technology and last year’s Dreamforce Golden Hoodie winner. This session will be moderated by Catherine Nichols, VP of the Office of Accessibility and include Jacqui Tolisano, Senior Director of Product Accessibility, Kris Woolery, Director of Inclusive Design on the Responsible AI in Tech team, Orlando Lugo, Product Manager for Ethical & Humane Use and AI Council member, Patrick Hermiller, Senior Product Designer on the AI Trust team, and Mike Raabe, Abilityforce President We have employees with disabilities hosting an informal Ask Me Anything: Disability Edition. Adam Rodenbeck, Senior Digital Accessibility Engineer, Alicia Schriever, President of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing chapter of Abilityforce, Brooke Eby, ISV Principle Business Development Manager, and Carden Wyckoff, Principal Accessibility Support Engineer will talk about disability etiquette, different models that shape the way people approach disability, and answer burning questions in an interactive conversation. From Tuesday through Thursday, Salesforce employees globally are excited to be working with Be My Eyes, an organization that connects blind and low-vision users who want sighted assistance with volunteers.
At eLaHub we believe that all learning content should be accessible and inclusive – as the default! Last year to celebrate GAAD we offered free access to the taster module for our Designing Accessible Learning Content (DALC) Programme. The taster module, alongside the full DALC Programme launched in November, has been really successful in raising accessibility awareness amongst learning practitioners, providing them with the practical guidance and resources needed to understand how to create accessible and inclusive learning content. To celebrate GAAD this year, for a limited period until 13th June we are once again offering 100 places with free access to the DALC taster module. Delegates who successfully complete the taster will earn an official Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certificate worth 90 minutes of CPD – a great way to demonstrate your commitment to more accessible and inclusive learning content!
Inclusive IT друзів запрошує на Світовий день обізнаності про доступність. В програмі – обмін досягненнями і досвідом боротьби за доступність в Україні та світі. Ми говоритемо і про вебдоступність, але не лише.
This month Windsor Hackforge is hosting a series of free events focused on accessibility. The programming aims to increase connections between people with disabilities, businesses, technologists, advocacy groups, and the community at large. The full schedule of events has been released on Hackforge’s website (https://www.hackf.org/news/schedule-announced-for-national-accessability-week-programming/), and features topics such as accessible website design, AODA compliance, and the role technology plays in an inclusive society. Presented as interactive workshops, tutorials, and discussions. To kickoff this series of events, David Best will present on May 16, Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). In this session we will look at the Ontario open for business economic growth strategy that can help your business reach larger markets.
To celebrate the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re offering eleven accessibility quickscans for free! We prioritize organizations working with and for disabled individuals and cultural organizations but any European not-for-profit organization or small business (SME) can apply. We’re an agency specialising in accessibility and we will examine the website based on eleven success criteria from the official web accessibility guidelines (WCAG). The quickscan will help you to get an idea what obstacles people with disabilities might encounter when visiting your website. You can apply until the 16th of May: https://11ways.be/gaad