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.
Event Type: Virtual Events
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.
Come join Team Stark and the community for our 2023 GAAD event: Making Waves: Sound design in modern day software
With the expertise of our panelists, we’ll dig into a depth of design which is largely ignored across software — sound. How do you design in the absence of sound, how do you tap the various senses through design, and how do you design when sound is how you can or can’t communicate? With that, we’ll also illuminate that impact (positively and negatively) on Deaf or Hard of Hearing individuals. On the panel: Host – Cat Noone (CEO, Stark); Panelist – Matthew Bennett (former Microsoft Sound & Sensory Creative Director); Panelist – Megan Clegg (Design Leader; former Compass and Nickelodeon)
Housekeeping ahead of the event: We will have an ASL translator for the event. We’ll be using Zoom and will have closed captions enabled. For any questions ahead of the event, please comment them here or send them our way to: hello@getstark.co ——— Looking forward to hanging and learning with all of you! Team Stark
Aim to raise awareness on the inclusivity of technology to people with disabilities.
MRS Unlimited is the affinity group at the Market Research Society to support and progress disability-inclusive market research and researchers. For this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day we invite you to a webinar to learn how disability inclusion can make research workplaces and work better. Four MRS Unlimited members will share their experiences personally and professionally to illustrate the importance of disability inclusion in research. We will share some practical approaches that you can apply in your workplace and work to recognise and proactively address exclusion. This allows for a broader and better empowered talent pool for your business and more complete and accurate research for your clients.
Događaj: Obelažavanje dana globalne svesti o pristupačnosti / Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023 Svake godine, treći četvrtak u maju se obeležava kao Dan globalne svesti o pristupačnosti. Ideja o Danu globalne svesti o pristupačnosti počela je jednim blog postom, koji je napisao Džo Devon, web developer sa sedištem u Los Anđelesu. Taj blog post je poslužio kao inspiracija da se ustanovi Dan globalne svesti o pristupačnosti. Nakon deset godina, osnovana je GAAD Fondacija, to je neprofitna organizacija čija je: – Misija da promoviše kulturu tehnologije i razvoj digitalnih proizvoda, kako bi uključila pristupačnost kao suštinski zahtev. – – Vizija da pristupačnost bude ugrađena u životni ciklus razvoja tehnoloških izuma i digitalnih proizvoda. – Svrha da svi pričaju, razmišljaju i uče o digitalnoj pristupačnosti i inkluziji, jer u svetu živi više od milijardu osoba sa invaliditetom. Tokom ovog online događaja razgovaramo: 1. O veštačkoj inteligenciji (AI) kroz konkretne primjere kako je koristiti, (Željko Bajić, Goran Macanović i Gradimir Kragić); 2. O “SightCity”, najvećoj međunarodnoj izložbi pomagala za slepe i slabovide osobe koja je održana u Frankfurtu, (Lazar Bulatović i drugi koji su bili na izložbi);
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is a day to talk about digital accessibility for disabled people, and Everyone-Games is here to talk about how to make TTRPGs better. Join MostlyBlindGamer, Naomi Hazlett, and Jim from Knights of the Braille, live on Twitch as we discuss Accessibility Awareness Day, our current thoughts on overall TTRPG accessibility, and how to make TTRPGs more accessible. Catch us live to learn more! Everyone-Games is a group of volunteers promoting accessibility through online events, software solutions, games, social media activism, and working with game developers in the industry.
Join our webinar, “Building Up Opportunities: Inspiring Change for DeafBlind Individuals and Advocating for Accessibility.” This panel discussion brings experts and advocates together to explore challenges faced by the DeafBlind community and share strategies for creating a more accessible world. Don’t miss this chance to be part of the conversation driving positive change.
Join us as we demonstrate a custom plug-in for the WordPress platform which auto-generates Alt-Text for any existing or newly uploaded images. Using AI/Generative Text, we hope to create a more accessible web, as well as improve your WordPress site’s efficiency and SEO.
Customers interact with businesses via digital means countless times per day and that content needs to be accessible to People with Disabilities. You’re a small business, though – what does digital accessibility even mean and where do you start? In this live virtual workshop, we’ll take you step-by-step through some of the most common ways digital content becomes inaccessible, and you’ll learn how you can make your small business more digitally accessible to ALL customers. This workshop includes: – Interactive Q&A sessions, – A fillable workbook to keep honing your skills, and – An inclusive language guide.