From 9.00am on 22 April until Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on 20 May, University of Brighton’s Digital Learning Team are celebrating and making change in advance of GAAD. This will include weekly blog posts featuring accessibility tips on the Digital Learning Team Blog (https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elearningteam/category/global-accessibility-awareness-day/). We will also share tips, tutorials, videos, and accessibility pledges using the hashtag #GAADDeeds on Twitter.
Event Type: Activities
Immersive Accessibility GAAD at UAB will display a 360 video where some accessibility service solutions have been edited such as captions/subtitles and audio description. This is part of the research activities within EU funded projects SOCLOSE, TRACTION and MediaVerse.
As May comes to a close, check out Tales of the Reluctant Blind’s blog about Global Accessibility Awareness Day and the value of bringing together individuals with disabilities who have to use assistive technology to access the web/digital content. Let’s make 2020 the year of accessibility!
To celebrate GAAD and raise awareness of the need for digital access and inclusion for people with disabilities, we asked three of our colleagues at Trellist to close their eyes and try to navigate a pair of demonstration websites using the JAWS screen reader software. Watch their experiences in a short YouTube video.
In recognition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re announcing a new Google Maps feature that does just that.
To celebrate 9 years of GAAD, today I am sharing with you 9 things that I love about you
Accessible design starts with color choice, and Adobe Color is creating tools to bring accessibility directly into color creation.
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.
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.