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.
Event Type: Virtual Events
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.
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.