The NC Higher Education Digital Accessibility Collaborative invites you to join them for the 3rd annual Join the Journey: Digital Accessibility Conference on June 15, 2023. The free conference will be held virtually over Zoom in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Content will focus on digital accessibility through the following informative 45-minute sessions: 9 am Keynote: Office for Civil Rights; 10 am Inclusive communications: email, social media, and more; 11 am Accessible and inclusive instruction: getting started; 1 pm Accessible document essentials; 2 pm More accessible tools/procurement; 3 pm Accessibility checkers and strategies: WAVE, Office, etc. This is a free professional development opportunity to learn about digital accessibility and is open to everyone in higher education, including faculty, staff, and students.
Event Type: Virtual Events
Thursday, May 18th, 2023, marks the twelfth annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). GAAD aims to raise awareness around digital access and inclusion and how inaccessible content affects more than one billion people with disabilities worldwide. At ITS Accessibility, we are leveraging GAAD to invite the university community to consider whether all their documents are accessible. Read on to learn how ITS Accessibility will do all the work of document remediation for you! PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, course content, or documents for any other purpose; send your digital content to ITS Accessibility for remediation. With a few clicks, you will ensure your digital content is accessible to all; we do all the hard work for you!
People with blindness, low vision, or even reduced vision use assistive technology (AT) to interact with software applications on computers, smartphones, and other small-size wearable devices. People with visual impairments usually stick to one or two main assistive technologies and are often unaware of other potentially useful ATs or even advanced features in their preferred ATs that can significantly speed up their everyday interaction with software applications while also reducing the interaction workload. In this presentation, Old Dominion University Computer Science PhD students will discuss and demonstrate the lesser known yet useful functionalities of popular Ats and introduce a wide array of uncommon ATs. Hosted by Old Dominion University Libraries in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science in Old Dominion University’s College of Sciences.
Join us for an enlightening discussion on driving accessibility in today’s technology landscape, inspired by Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! In an increasingly digital world, it’s crucial that technology empowers everyone, regardless of their abilities. Join us for an engaging webinar that explores the importance of accessibility and its impact on today’s technology landscape. Key Speakers: – Srinivasu Chakravarthula, Director of Accessibility, Freshworks – Stacey Epstein, CMO, Freshworks Topics will include: – The importance of prioritizing accessibility in the design and development of digital products and services. – Overcoming barriers and fostering a culture of inclusivity within organizations. – Leveraging technology advancements to create more accessible user experiences. – Promoting awareness and advocating for accessibility on a global scale.
Rehabilitation Council of India in collaboration with Enable India foundation is organizing a webinar on ‘Learn to Empower through Digital Accessibility’. Sessions on Accessible technologies at workplaces, Accessible learning platform for persons with learning disability, Learn to make your content accessible through latest accessible technologies, Addressing national and international guidelines for digital accessibility.
Rehabilitation Council of India in collaboration with Enable India foundation is organizing a webinar in Hindi on ‘Learn to Empower through Digital Accessibility’. Sessions on Accessible technologies at workplaces, Accessible learning platform for persons with learning disability, Learn to make your content accessible through latest accessible technologies, Addressing national and international guidelines for digital accessibility.
The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) under Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India is the nodal body to look after all the development agenda of Persons with Disabilities of the country. With the vision to build an inclusive society in which equal opportunities are provided for the growth and development of Persons with Disabilities so that they can lead productive, safe and dignified lives, the Department will be celebrating the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on 18th May 2023.
Keeping ‘inclusion’ as a central mandate, the Department with 65 institutes/organisations that are associated with DEPwD will be conducting events at more than 80 places across India. Celebrated on the 3rd Thursday of May every year the purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital- web, software, mobile, etc. access/inclusion for people with different disabilities. Aligning with GAAD’s purpose and with the aim the to make technology accessible and usable by persons with disabilities the Department shall organise seminars/webinars on topics like accessibility of websites, social media platforms, mobile/PC as well as in banking systems, universal design, assistive technologies, and disability representations. Even distribution camps shall be organised to distribute aids and Teaching Learning Material (TLM) kits, launch new aids & assistive devices and further demonstrate accessible short films among other awareness generation programs. All the events shall involve experts from the field of technology accessibility, academicians, industry leaders, policy-makers among others. Moreover, thousands of Persons with Disabilities, many experts themselves in the domain of digital accessibility, shall also be participating to share their challenges and experiences.
The celebration and awareness generation of GAAD by the Department is national level celebration that is poised to bring together all relevant stakeholders on a single day across multiple locations of India to share knowledge, experiences, views and ideas, and discuss the latest developments and trends in the field of Digital and technological accessibility. The celebration shall thus further strengthen mutual confidence and interoperability of institutions as per the needs of PwDs and also enable sharing of best practices. The exercise will be yet another milestone in strengthening digital accessibility in continuation to the 3-day Web-Accessibility Workshop organised by DEPwD in March 2023. With the firm belief that every Person with Disability deserves a first-rate digital experience on the web, the celebration of GAAD is a progressive step of DEPwD to enable Persons with Disabilities to participate as independent and productive members of society.
EXPO+ACCESIBLE La primera feria virtual iberoamericana en su género. Un evento online dedicado al intercambio de conocimientos sobre la gestión y la promoción de la accesibilidad entre los sectores empresariales, para entender la inclusión de manera transversal y llevarla a la práctica día a día. Participarán profesionales, startups, productos y servicios, agencias de viajes, administración pública, entidades, consultoría, ingeniería, etc … Conecta de manera virtual tus productos o servicios con una comunidad global y dinámica abierta a conocer más acerca de cómo ser más inclusivos. ¡El tiempo de contingencia nos renueva! CONFERENCIAS EN DIRECTO Jueves 18 de mayo Viernes 19 de mayo
Staff members will be provided training on how to conduct accessible online meetings and workshops in Microsoft Teams. VisAbility will also be releasing a short video on the GAAD website.
KICTANET is a non-profit ICT Policy Think Tank, which acts as a multi-stakeholder platform for ICT policy and regulation. The network is guided by four pillars: policy advocacy, stakeholder engagement, capacity building, and research. KICTAnet’s guiding philosophy encourages synergies for ICT policy-related activities and initiatives. As such, the network provides mechanisms and a framework for continuing cooperation and collaboration in ICT matters among industry, technical community, academia, media, development partners, and Government. KICTANET, through the ICT Access and Equality for Persons with Disability program, has researched the accessibility of government websites by persons with disabilities, and a scorecard was developed. We want to invite stakeholders for the launch of this research as well as to set the next priority agenda for ICT and inclusion in public services.
The objective of this launch cum roundtable stakeholders meeting is to share the research findings and provide a platform for dialogue on digital accessibility status in Kenya. In these discussions, we intend to identify stakeholders’ challenges and identify priority actions, potential solutions, and best practices moving forward.