Accessibility Demystified: Global Accessibility Awareness Day Webinar

This fast-paced webinar will feature 10-15 minute sessions, including – Intro to barriers faced by individuals with disabilities – Empathy session featuring a UC staff member with a temporary disability – Demo of how people navigate the digital environment using a keyboard only – Tutorial on how to make content using Rich Text Editors accessible – Game show about research and data that can help guide accessibility

Perficient is celebrating GAAD

Perficient is celebrating GAAD by having its accessibility colleagues share videos of how accessible solutions impact lives, and with a workshop demonstrating common tasks and the barriers users with disabilities experience when navigating the web.

Hilton: A Day-Long Celebration of Digital Access and Inclusion

Hilton’s Digital Accessibility Team will partner with our Abilities and NextGen Team Member Resource Groups to host a day-long celebration with in-person and virtual learning webinars – spanning our offices globally. We have 20 education and training sessions focused on Accessible Technology, Inclusive Workplaces, and Inclusive Travel Experiences. In person activities allow the Hilton Team to learn about and experience assistive technology and get their questions answered by our team.

Accessibility in the Workplace

A fireside chat featuring Twitter’s Global Head of Accessibility Gurpreet Kaur and Chief Accessibility Officer of Disability: IN Jeff Wissel, where they will talk about accessibility in the workplace.

Neurodiversity in the Workplace

Disability inclusion consultant Margaux Joffe will present on Neurodiversity in the workplace. Marguax is an award-winning producer, certified accessibility professional, and the founder of the Kaleidoscope Society for Women with ADHD. In 2017 she helped Yahoo launch the technology industry’s first Neurodiversity Employee Resource Group (ERG) to create a more inclusive workplace for minds of all kinds. She currently facilitates a professional development program for adults with ADHD.

Product Accessibility Open Office Hours & 12-Hour Livestream

Zendesk’s Product Accessibility team (est. 2021) is excited to be celebrating its first GAAD. We’ll be livestreaming as we test our biggest products with various assistive tech, offering our colleagues around the world a glimpse into how we work and how we can help. We’ll be available for a full 12 hours, to answer any questions from anyone who drops by.

Global Accessibility Awareness Day Lunch and Learn

At Bell, we are celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day by hosting a lunch and learn featuring product demos and lightning talks around the topic of Accessibility.

The Accessible Educator Series

The Accessible Educator events include weekly MicroCPD videos, Showcase workshops and panel discussions and will allow colleagues at Birmingham to discuss and share their approaches, difficulties, and solutions to digital accessibility and to engage with development opportunities to develop their accessible practice. A new Accessible Educator course will invite colleagues to reflect on their current accessible practice and to consider attitudes and actions to becoming an Accessible Educator.

Acessibilidade na web: Os seis erros mais comuns

Em celebração ao Dia Mundial da Conscientização sobre a Acessibilidade, a Sinqia preparou um webinar para ajudar a conscientizar seus colaboradores e disseminar a cultura na empresa. O especialista em acessibilidade na web, Paulo Renato Pereira, fará uma introdução à acessibilidade na web aprofundando nos seis erros mais cometidos na WCAG e como evitá-los. Webinar interno e exclusivo para funcionários da Sinqia.

GAAD @ BA

BA Digital are hosting our first Global Accessibility Awareness Day event. We’re hosting speakers from the digital, aviation and accessibility advocacy areas who will give be giving some short talks throughout the day. They will be talking about their experience and expectations when it comes to travelling as a person with a disability. This will be an internal only event.