Panel Discussion on Accessibility & Inclusion

TCS is dedicating a whole week to celebrate, learn and experience accessibility and inclusion with a blog series and posters. We would also have lively conversation with our esteemed customer guest speaker along with TCS’ Accessibility team to understand the role of Accessibility in Digital Transformation.

GAAD – Mini conference for employees focusing on disability inclusion and accessibility

One way you can grow your accessibility acumen is by joining the Accessibility Office May 20. We’ll celebrate the 10th Global Accessibility Awareness Day with an all-day conference. We’ll share how we’re designing, testing, and coding to promote accessibility for all investors. We’ve designed this day to enhance your accessibility knowledge and skills. We’ll have a series of educational sessions with plenty of time to ask questions.

Digi-ID Accessible Digital Skills Education Citizen Advisory Panel

We are a EU consortium co-creating accessible digital skills education for people with intellectual disabilities. We are hosting our project’s first Citizen Advisory Panel kick off activity. Our panel is a group of seven individuals with an intellectual disability, who are part of our team. The purpose of our activity is to seek insights and feedback on topics of digital inclusion and using technology for health, well being and social inclusion.

Launch of Versus Arthritis Disability Inclusion Network

Versus Arthritis staff are launching our new Disability Inclusion Network, with staff sharing their experiences of using specialist Access Technology that helps them within work.

A11yBoost Ambassador Pilot

In the spirit of ‘Global’, Scotia’s Digital Accessibility team has been working with our International partners in Latin America to grow their accessibility expertise in a manner that best reflects their own processes, products and teams. The first session is being piloted in Chile to coincide with Global Accessibility Awareness Day and will feed into our larger objective of having Ambassadors contribute and collaborate to the culture of Accessibility we are building at the bank.

A11yEgg Hunt

An open challenge to all Scotiabankers. Embedded throughout our internal knowledge base are 10 “a11yEggs” representing GAAD’s 10th Anniversary. Participants are encouraged to search for the a11yEggs as each will containing the following information: a key takeaway of digital inclusion, a recommended activity and a clue to the next a11yEgg. Participants that find all 10 and participate in specific activities are eligible to win a prize.

A11Y Quiz at Pearson Lanka

In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) 2021, Accessibility Shared Service Team at Pearson Lanka has planned several activities starting from 17th May to 21st of May 2021. The main highlight of the week is ‘A11Y Quiz’, a Virtual accessibility fun quizzical via Kahoot platform targeted for Pearson Lanka employees. Throughout the whole week, Accessibility informative tips will be shared via emails and blog posts.

WE ABLE -Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Our virtual event is to enhance our employees across all our operating companies’ knowledge and to dig deeper into digital accessibility. We will have speakers from the W3C, as well as a team from Microsoft to show us the basic accessibility features, we already have available to us on our Microsoft Offices and how to use them to be more accessible.

Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative 2021: Future Workforce

The 2021 YSEALI Workshop on Future Workforce is for students, entrepreneurs, and young professionals ages 20-35 from across ASEAN and Timor-Leste. A program of the U.S. Embassy in Singapore, implemented by The Asia Foundation and the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore, it will be held virtually May 16 to May 23, 202. Frances West Lightning Talk: Digital Accessibility and Inclusion

2021 Young South East Asia Leadership Initiative Workshop on Future Workforce

The 2021 YSEALI Workshop on Future Workforce is for students, entrepreneurs, and young professionals ages 20-35 from across ASEAN and Timor-Leste. A program of the U.S. Embassy in Singapore, implemented by The Asia Foundation and the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore. Frances West will give a talk on Digital Accessibility and Inclusion.