Open to all employees of Bell Canada Enterprises (including subsidiaries and affiliates) across Canada. Spans all time zones as we have employees in each province from Newfoundland to British Columbia. We are holding a ‘GAAD Bug Sweep” contest that is meant to be both educational and fun. We have created a mock website with some common accessibility barriers (“bugs” or “defects). The event will be kicked off with a virtual session that will educate employees about digital accessibility and how to identify accessibility barriers (bugs). Then the employees will be given until the end of the day (midnight of May 18th) to find the ‘bugs’ on the mock websites and submit their entries for a chance to win prizes. Employees can enter the contest as individuals or teams of up to 3 people. Prizes will be offered for both categories (individual prizes & team prizes) The websites (English & French) will only be live only on May 18. Last year we had 1000 employees sign up for our event and the demand for the event exceeded the capacity we had set up. So this year we are increasing the capacity to 2500 to allow more employees to participate.
Event Type: Private/Internal Events
A series of in-person and virtual presentations will be held to build training and awareness for Wells Fargo employees around the value and importance of digital accessibility. This is the 6th consecutive year Wells Fargo has celebrated GAAD.
An internal marketing “Community of Practice” session to promote accessibility awareness to RICOH USA employees
Hackathon challenging colleagues designing solutions for customers with hearing disabilities at later age
Join Harvard’s Digital Accessibility Services (DAS) team as we celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) with Jennison Asuncion, the co-creator of GAAD. The event will be live streamed, live captioned, and recorded.
During the month of May, Youngstown State University will celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness by offering a series of lunch time information sessions and instructional workshops about digital accessibility in common productivity tools. Our goal is to enhance our campus’ understanding of digital accessibility and how easy it is to create accessible content using Microsoft and Adobe productivity tools. Programs are intended for YSU faculty, staff, and students.
In recognition of GAAD, eBay is hosting actor, model and deaf activist Nyle DiMarco as a guest speaker. Nyle will be speaking to our product, design and engineering orgs discussing and demonstrating the value of non-verbal communication and embracing one’s true identity. As he shares firsthand experiences from his life and career, he will help us gain a deeper understanding of the deaf community. In his powerfully emotive presentations, Nyle reveals his triumphs, challenges, fears and dreams, and encourages others to live their own lives authentically and define their own versions of success.
This presentation will cover the basic rules of creating accessible resources and communications as detailed in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), while illustrating practical examples of how to incorporate them into your work. We will have speakers from across the company share how accessibility factors into their work, and we will give examples of how a basic understating of best accessibility practices are important for everyone, even those who aren’t in public facing roles.
BA are running a series of lightning talks to cover the following themes for GAAD 2023:
- Disability and lived experience
- Accessibility change programmes in large organisations
- What progress are BA making in their accessibility change programme
This will be a hybrid event of in person and pre-recorded talks.
This year iCIMS will be highlighting the theme of Progress Not Perfection. This topic drives home how web accessibility is a journey, and there is always room to grow. We will talk about how far iCIMS has come in the past 7 years since we started celebrating GAAD and highlight our goals for the future! This will be a hybrid company-wide event with on-site activities in both the Holmdel, New Jersey and Hyderbad, India offices while also streaming for remote employees.