MathWorks celebrates the 2023 Global Accessibility Awareness Day. The Accessibility Program at MathWorks will be organizing a number of internal, lunchtime activities to raise awareness of the importance of digital accessibility in engineering and science.
Event Type: Private/Internal Events
This GAAD, Rakuten’s RakAbility ERG is holding a mini-conference for Rakuten Americas employees on topics relating to digital accessibility, design, testing, and more! We hope these talks will help attendees understand the need for more accessible products, and how to build them. We are excited to have four professionals from the Accessibility industry joining us to share their expertise and wisdom on a variety of topics, including Miriam Nabinger, Dan Tevelde, Albert Kim and others.
On May 18, we’re proud to recognize Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). GAAD is a global event that shines a light on digital access and inclusion for people with disabilities – because every user deserves a first-rate digital experience whether on the web or other digital products. The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking, and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than one billion people worldwide who are living with disabilities. On Thursday, May 18, we explore the Envision app, a free app that articulates visual information into speech, empowering people who are blind or have low vision to access everyday information for themselves. This special presentation will feature the story on where Envision started and how it began, demonstration of basic and advanced features, and users sharing how the app makes an impact on the way they live, work, and play. // Le 18 mai, nous sommes fiers de souligner la Journée mondiale de sensibilisation à l’accessibilité (GAAD). La GAAD est un événement mondial qui met en lumière l’accès numérique et l’inclusion des personnes handicapées – parce que chaque utilisateur mérite une expérience numérique de premier ordre, que ce soit sur le Web ou sur d’autres produits numériques. L’objectif de la GAAD est de faire en sorte que tout le monde parle, réfléchisse et apprenne au sujet de l’accès et de l’inclusion numériques, et des plus d’un milliard de personnes dans le monde qui vivent dans des situations de handicap. Le jeudi 18 mai, nous pour découvrir l’appli Envision, une application gratuite qui transforme les informations visuelles en paroles, permettant ainsi aux personnes aveugles ou ayant une vision partielle d’accéder elles-mêmes aux informations de la vie quotidienne. Cette présentation spéciale comprendra l’histoire de l’origine et des débuts d’Envision, la démonstration des fonctionnalités de base et avancées, et des utilisateurs qui partageront l’impact de l’application sur leur façon de vivre, de travailler et de se divertir.
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.
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.