Welcome to Vision Empower’s panel discussion on ‘STEM Accessibility in the Indian Education System’! Vision Empower is dedicated to making STEM and Computational Thinking (CT) education accessible for children with visual impairments. We are currently collaborating with over 120 special schools across 14 states in India. Our mission is to bridge the gap in STEM education through innovative resources and technologies, ensuring every child has the opportunity to explore and excel in these crucial fields. In this panel discussion, our partners delve into the challenges of making STEM education accessible and the work they are doing to transform the educational landscape for students with visual impairment. Panel Highlights: 1. Challenges in Accessing STEM Subjects: Explore the fundamental challenges a student with visual impairment faces in accessing STEM education. 2. Importance of STEM for Visually Impaired Students: Understand why visually impaired students must pursue STEM, despite its visual nature. 3. Tactile Diagrams: Learn what tactile diagrams are, how they are created, and their role in breaking down barriers in STEM learning for the visually impaired. 4. Innovative Tools and Technologies: Discover the tools and innovations currently available for visually impaired students to study STEM and the additional innovations needed. 5. Learning Management Platforms: Assess the importance of platforms like Coursera, edX, or Subodha in facilitating STEM education for visually impaired students and key considerations for ensuring accessibility. 6. Advice for Stakeholders: Gain valuable advice for parents, special educators, visually impaired students, organizations working for the disabled, and innovators to ensure STEM education becomes universally accessible for every visually impaired child nationwide. Subscribe to our channel and hit the notification bell to stay updated on future events and discussions. About Vision Empower: Vision Empower is committed to empowering children with visual impairments through accessible STEM education. By working with special schools and various partners, we aim to create an inclusive and supportive learning environment for all.
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Designing for Accessibility Webinar | LinkedIn Event Passcode: 391282 In today’s world, it is more important than ever that digital services take various disabilities into account to truly be accessible to all. In Designing for Accessibility: Using a Human-Centered Approach to Build Accessible Solutions, you will hear from key members of Softrams’ Human Experience (HX) team about how we achieve accessibility by putting people at the center of our solutions. Join us on May 16th, Global Accessibility Awareness Day, for insights into how our teams build accessible digital products by focusing on the people who rely on them every day. Anne-Marie Lloyd is a designer from Washington, DC with a background in design consulting and market research. Currently a Human-Centered Design Analyst on federal CMS project MEARIS at Softrams, and with experience in both the private and federal sector, Anne-Marie advocates for accessibility research and practices as an essential component of good design. Carrie Mullens is a Senior Accessibility SME with more than 20 years of experience who takes pride in providing the best accessibility assessments possible. As a Senior Accessibility SME, her goal is to increase and spread her knowledge of accessibility. Gizem Serifoglu is a seasoned designer with 15 years of experience dedicated to crafting human-centered brand experiences. As a Senior Human-Centered Designer, she excels in fostering meaningful connections between people and products, guiding project direction, style, and tone to ensure an engaging and empathetic user experience. About Softrams Softrams is a digital services company based in the DC-Metro area that offers innovative technology solutions and builds customer-centric services that are simple, intuitive, and usable across federal industries. Over the past nine years, we have fostered strong relationships with federal agencies including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to deliver modern solutions that are making a difference for people all over the world.
Welcome to Vision Empower’s panel discussion on ‘STEM Accessibility in the Indian Education System’! Vision Empower is dedicated to making STEM and Computational Thinking (CT) education accessible for children with visual impairments. We are currently collaborating with over 120 special schools across 14 states in India. Our mission is to bridge the gap in STEM education through innovative resources and technologies, ensuring every child has the opportunity to explore and excel in these crucial fields. In this panel discussion, our partners & experts delve into the challenges of making STEM education accessible and the work they are doing to transform the educational landscape for students with visual impairment. Panel Highlights: 1. Challenges in Accessing STEM Subjects: Explore the fundamental challenges a student with visual impairment faces in accessing STEM education. 2. Importance of STEM for Visually Impaired Students: Understand why visually impaired students must pursue STEM, despite its visual nature. 3. Tactile Diagrams: Learn what tactile diagrams are, how they are created, and their role in breaking down barriers in STEM learning for the visually impaired. 4. Innovative Tools and Technologies: Discover the tools and innovations currently available for visually impaired students to study STEM and the additional innovations needed. 5. Learning Management Platforms: Assess the importance of platforms like Coursera, edX, or Subodha in facilitating STEM education for visually impaired students and key considerations for ensuring accessibility. 6. Advice for Stakeholders: Gain valuable advice for parents, special educators, visually impaired students, organizations working for the disabled, and innovators to ensure STEM education becomes universally accessible for every visually impaired child nationwide.
Perficient sat down with Userlytics for an interview on why Global Accessibility Awareness Day is a day to celebrate awareness of digital accessibility.
Find out why accessibility is key and how it applies to your business. After presentations by Andrej Nemeček and Peter Teplický, you can join a panel discussion about real-life experiences and the importance of accessibility from a business perspective.
The White House is convening a Town Hall to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Watch the livestream on YouTube, and live captioning on Streamtext.
The event will be held today virtually through ZOOM. The speakers will talk about these topics during the event:- 1. The sustainability of the accessibility 2. Access to the urban environment 3. Innovation for digital accessibility 4. Capacity building in accessibility programs 5. The role of universities in achieving accessibility requirements 6. A deeper understanding of universal design for learning
Global webinar for customers and partners to receive best practice advice on how to produce accessible documents at scale for customers of (typically) large organizations (such as Banks, Insurance companies etc) as well as Government agencies.
Play engaging games on accessibility – 1) Burst the myth game (No programming knowledge required) – https://a11ymyths.pythonanywhere.com/ 2) A11Y Bug Hunter (Basic Web programming knowledge required) – https://inaccessible-webpage-game.vercel.app/question.html Top scorers will receive exciting prizes!!
CI&T’s multi-award winning Empathy Lab is an online workshop designed to help build empathy for people with disabilities, whether they be permanent, temporary or situational. This workshop is highly interactive, inviting attendees to participate in a variety of real world tasks using technology with various sensory simulations. These activities aim to get product teams and executives thinking about the impact they have in making technology more inclusive to all. Empathy Lab can help. What participants learn • What accessibility is and why it’s important • Empathise with some of the challenges technology can create for people with disabilities, whether they be permanent, temporary or situational • Identify ways to solve or overcome these obstacles to make the digital experience more accessible • Recognise what you can do in your daily life and work to make the world more accessible • Understand what teams need to learn to integrate it into their daily work