Youth Innovation Projects supports Special Olympics Youth Leaders with and without intellectual disabilities as they come together to design and implement their visions of inclusion in their schools and communities. Since 2018 we have support over 850 Youth Leaders implementing 500 projects worldwide. Cycle 8’s theme will be Global Accessibility to help highlight the need for increased digital accessibility with the disability community. We will be highlighting the projects on our platforms.
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Over the past several years, EBSCO has made a concerted effort to instill accessibility into our organizational culture. This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re highlighting some of our recent initiatives.
A Blog Post describing how Inclusion and Diversity promote Accessibility by Magic EdTech (Digital Learning Solutions & Product Company)
Quizz about key accessibility concepts, in Catalan.
To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, the Accessibility Experience Team at Twitter will be Tweeting tips and tricks from @TwitterA11y on using Twitter with accessibility in mind, from Tweeting with a screen reader to enabling captions and navigating with keyboard shortcuts. We’ve also added the official GAAD logo to the #GAAD hashtag for greater visibility. Lastly, we will be running a campaign to get supporters to discuss how they celebrated GAAD. Follow #TwitterGAAD2021 for updates!
In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re offering a 25% discount on our highly-rated Accessibility course. When you sign up, you also get access to 30+ other Ivy League-level courses in UX design, at no extra cost. Join over 107,000 graduates and design a more inclusive world!
On 20 May 2021, the Media Accessibility Platform (MAP) will finally end its beta testing and release its stable version to celebrate the 10th GAAD. MAP aims at providing a unified atlas charting the worldwide landscape of media accessibility through the creation of a structured platform that acts as a hub for research, policies, training and practices in this field. The database collects publications, events, projects, training courses, legislations, regulations and guidelines on media access.
ActionRocket & Beyond the Envelope™ have come together in their shared passion for and commitment to accessibility, with the aim of making it real for recipients. We’ve created a short survey to help us understand the value of the accessibility implementations we make. We aim to replace what we think will improve the recipient experience with what will actually improve the recipient experience when it comes to implementing accessibility in email.
BetterMe, (a wellness app 95M downloads worldwide), is rolling out new workouts for people with limited mobility to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, May 20th. BetterMe users will get: 1. Workout programs 2. In-app challenges 3. Special diet
The app is available in the Apple AppStore and Google Play.
To raise awareness about building accessible web experiences and to empower people to build websites that raise the standard of accessibility on the web, we have planned: social media buzz to encourage engagement with #GAAD, a new case study, the new webflow.com/accessibility landing page, a web accessibility checklist of guidelines, a new Webflow University course, internal office hours to discuss accessibility, and announcement of upcoming internal events with accessibility experts.