Join us as we celebrate innovation and inclusion at the final presentation day of Indonesia’s first Accessibility Design Challenge, hosted by Suarise and A11yID. This event is the culmination of weeks of independent learning, group workshops, and mentorship where students and professionals in UI/UX have reimagined how accessibility can be integrated from the design stage. Now, our finalist teams are ready to present their Figma prototypes and accessibility documentation—demonstrating how thoughtful design can break digital barriers. Whether you’re a designer, developer, educator, policymaker, or accessibility advocate, this is your chance to see inclusive design in action, connect with the community, and be inspired by the next generation of accessibility champions. — The Accessibility Design Challenge event stems from critical insights highlighted in a recent Deque Case Study in 2023, which revealed that a staggering 67% of accessibility issues originate during the design phase of digital products.Therefore, there is an urgency of eto enhance awareness and practical skills in digital accessibility design among students and UI/UX professionals. This event continuing the 2024 A11y Bootcamp, the first digital accessibility bootcamp in Indonesia. Supported by ISIF Asia & APNIC Foundation
Event Type: In Person Events
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) Open House 15 May 2025 Save the date! Join us for an inspiring and engaging event in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! At Empower we are dedicated to making the digital world more accessible for everyone. This event is the perfect opportunity to connect with colleagues, friends, partners, and clients who share the same vision. Let’s come together to exchange insights, network, and take action towards a more accessible world.
Event Details
📅 Date: 15 May
📍 Location: EmpowerNL 4 Escasoni Place St. John’s
🕓 Time: 13:00 to 16:00
Why Attend?
✅ Expand Your Network: Meet professionals, developers, and advocates in the accessibility community.
✅ Gain Practical Knowledge: Learn about digital accessibility, accessibility best practices, and adaptive technology.
✅ Improve Your Website Accessibility: Get a speed audit of your website with expert feedback.
✅ Engaging Workshops: Compuslt Demos & Displays
✅ Hands-on sessions on accessible gaming and experience screen reader software and web accessibility.
✅ Drinks & Bites: Enjoy a relaxed atmosphere with great conversations and refreshments.
Collaborating Partners
We are excited to work with Compusult who will be introducing assistive technology (AT). AT enhances the quality of life, promotes inclusion, and improves the well-being of individuals with disabilities and those with aging-related challenges.
How to Join?
Interested? Let us know through the registration form and secure your spot! Looking forward to seeing you there!
Treasures await you in the hunt for digital accessibility nuggets of gold! Bring your lunch and your laptop, and in teams you’ll scour the internet in order to complete challenges. Win a challenge and you’ll get a treasure! No prior accessibility knowledge required. Learn, connect and celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day with us!
**Schedule:**
12pm – Doors open
12:15pm – Event starts (in-person and streaming via Zoom)
1:15pm – End
Thanks to our sponsors Aleph Accessibility and two/fiftyseven.
**Livestream option:**
It would be great to see you in person! But if you can’t make it, here is the livestream link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82552227768?pwd=JMXarPUbgJ87W5H3oa9WbR3XpczYoF.1
Or Zoom Meeting ID: 825 5222 7768, Passcode: 615394
Other details:
- Bring your own lunch
- The event will be live-streamed with auto-generated captions
- The event space is wheelchair accessible
- Please let us know if we can provide any additional accommodations!
Overview: Most digital accessibility efforts in government have focused on the executive branch. The Minnesota State Legislature and Courts have independently adopted accessibility policies. This session will explore how the teams planned and engaged stakeholders to rollout the policies. Presenters will discuss:
- Why their respective branches chose to adopt accessibility as a standard or policy.
- Key challenges in implementing accessibility.
- Strategies, tools, and processes that were useful/helpful.
For many companies in Portugal, 2025 will mark the date on which the new law on accessibility applied to the private sector will come into force. Resulting from a European legislative initiative, the European Accessibility Act, this will be a challenge for products and services, with a view to creating a more inclusive reality. In Portugal, for some time now, there have been some companies that have been making very sustained progress in this area. Transforming products and services, creating new ways of working as a team and even redefining many of their internal policies. In this conversation, we will seek to highlight concrete examples of activities and initiatives from two companies that are completely essential to the lives of consumers in Portugal: Sonae MC (owner of Continente) and IKEA.
Open house with display of assistive technology
Welcome to learn more about digital accessibility and assistive technology – for free! Thursday 15 May at 13-17, the Funka Foundation invites you to an exciting and educational open house where people with different disabilities show how they use assistive technology. How do blind people use the web? How can I best help a dyslexic person? Will my website work for someone who controls their computer by voice alone? What is most important for people with low vision? Our open house will answer all your questions:
- Meet users with disabilities who will show and tell you what works and doesn’t work for them
- See how assistive technology works in real life
- You meet our experts who can put your experience into perspective
- You will learn what you as a developer, website owner, UX designer, graphic designer or web author can do to fulfil the legal requirements for accessibility – and ensure that digital services work for everyone!
It’s an open house so you can come and go as you please. In order for us to know how much coffee to make, it is great if you want to sign up! Free registration: https://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90836567/Stiftelsen-Funka-GAAD-15-maj-2025
Public sector services need to work for everyone. Unlike private sector businesses, public organisations cannot exclude anyone or focus on a narrow user group. German accessibility law, the Basic Law – also known as Grundgesetz – and EU legislation demand this. Various public sector organisations have been building significant capacity and capability in-house. In the May edition of the ‘Öffentliches Gestalten’ meetup, we want to hear from representatives of several German public sector organisations about their efforts to design and develop the most inclusive products and services:
- Danny Koppenhagen, Deutsche Bahn/DB Systel
- Marion Couesnon , DigitalServices des Bundes
- Susanne Henatschel, DigitalServices des Bundes
The federal government’s DigitalService is hosting the meetup at its Kreuzberg office’s top floor with rooftop access. All presentations will be given in English. Questions in the later discussion part can be raised either in English or German. The event is jointly organised and hosted by CityLAB Berlin and DigitalService.
Join us on Friday, May 16th for Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) —a day dedicated to sparking conversations, expanding knowledge, and driving action around digital access and inclusion. Designing with everyone in mind is so important, and this meetup is an opportunity to connect with others, learn, and contribute to a more inclusive digital world. Join us in the back Garden on Friday, May 16 at noon, at New Holland Brewing in Battle Creek, MI. Come for lunch, and great conversations.
We invite you to the Poznań celebration of GAAD – World Accessibility Awareness Day.
Agenda:
From 14:00 – Neurodiversity Exhibition
17:30 – 18:00 – Joanna Pawlik & Kamila Pierunek – UAM GO Case study
18:00 – 18:30 – Networking
18:30 – 19:00 – Małgorzata Podolec – Research with blind users at Allegro
19:00 – 19:15 – Break
19:15 – 19:45 – Piotr Piątek – Digital path to accessibility and efficiency: social innovation PrehApp
Name: Chhatarpur Accessibility Awareness Day
Date: 2nd May 2025
Time: Morning (starting at 9:00 AM)
Venue: Police Line, Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh
Organized by: Chhatarpur Local Guides
Event Lead: Ranu5g
Main Objective: To increase accessibility information for Chhatarpur on Google Maps and make it a model for modernization among Class 3 cities in India.
Hello everyone! Today we have gathered here at Police Line, Chhatarpur for a very important mission – Chhatarpur Accessibility Awareness Day. This event is an opportunity for all of us Chhatarpur Local Guides to make our city even more accessible on Google Maps. Today’s objective is to make people aware that whenever we review a place, we must also write about its accessibility features – like wheelchair ramps, accessible toilets, elevators, parking spaces, or sensory support like Braille menu and sign language support. This will not only help in building an inclusive city, but will also help a Class 3 city like Chhatarpur to be recognised as a modern city on the Indian map. If Chhatarpur comes on top in terms of accessibility and modernization, it will be the result of our hard work. Today is the beginning of a new thought, a new direction and a change.