Blog Post: Find wheelchair accessible places with Google Maps

In recognition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re announcing a new Google Maps feature that does just that.

Blog Post: Esight- A GAAD story

Laura Morrissey’s latest post for today’s GAAD!

Blog Post: GAAD 2020 – A Love Letter to the Accessibility Community

To celebrate 9 years of GAAD, today I am sharing with you 9 things that I love about you

Blog Post: Celebrate GAAD with Adobe Color

Accessible design starts with color choice, and Adobe Color is creating tools to bring accessibility directly into color creation.

Blog Post: How OutSystems Makes Developing Accessible Applications Easier

Today, as a celebration of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re happy to announce that we’ve brought these capabilities to our state of the art reactive model, to support developers in creating accessible applications for both web and mobile. 

Blog Post: Salesforce recognizes 9th Annual GAAD

Today Salesforce celebrates the ninth annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), a day committed to making websites and software fully accessible to everyone, including those with disabilities.

Blog Post: Geographic Solutions celebrate GAAD

Geographic Solutions as a company is focused on bringing ease-of-use in their products to people with disabilities. In the United States alone, over half of working-age people have a disability or impairment, making it imperative to consider accessibility from the initial stages of software development. Geographic Solutions is committed to making our software as accessible as possible, and we are proud to observe Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD).

Blog Post: Square Enix is making a commitment towards better accessibility

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2020. In the spirit of the event we wanted to talk about the various initiatives we’ve launched around accessibility and inclusion.

Here at Square Enix, we strive to deliver unforgettable gaming experiences to as many people as possible, and making sure that our games and services are accessible is a very important part of that mission.

Blog Post: Microsoft Canada Celebrates GAAD

As we mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I reflect on the tremendous advances driven by our team, and by the dedicated individuals and businesses with whom we are so pleased to work with.

At Microsoft, we’ve been focused on improvements to real-time speech-to-text transcription, visual recognition technology and predictive text functionality. For example, we recently added new capabilities to Microsoft Soundscape including the ability to share Markers and filter for ‘Essential Services’ so people who are blind or have low vision are better supported in a contactless world.

Grand Theft Accessibility

Not the very-violent video game – but a game to help you experience a range of accessibility needs. Created to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2020 #GAAD2020