Getting Ready for GAAD

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.

Immersive Accessibility

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.

Blog Post: Accessiversity Labs Celebrates GAAD

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!

Blog post: Experiencing Accessibility Firsthand: The GAAD Edition

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.

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.