“Who wants to be an accessibility champion?” is presented by Perkins Access the digital accessibility consulting team from the Perkins School for the Blind. Watch accessibility champions from across the digital world compete in games that bring accessibility concepts to life. The host Katie Martell is joined by Alexa Heinrich, Chris Brogan and Trish Fontanilla.
Event Type: Virtual Events
The International Civil Society Centre has obtained the support of Sightsavers for the Digital Dialogue event series jointly undertaken with CivicTech Africa: In 2022 all Digital Dialogue panel discussions will be interpreted into International Sign and with live captions. We take this opportunity to ask the question: How to ensure the inclusion of persons with disabilities into the digital space?
During the lock down period of Shanghai, beYoureyeS keep arrange virtual inclusive activities which include persons with visual impairments and unimpaired people. Participant register link will be sent on May.19 19:00 in beYoureyeS wechat platform (wechat id:beyoureyes) For the introduction of our NGO beYoureyeS, please visit www.beyoureyes.org.cn. Welcome to join us : )
Z okazji Światowego Dnia Wiedzy o Dostępności, Urząd Marszałkowski Województwa Małopolskiego zaprasza na webinarium „Dostępne dokumenty WORD i PDF”. Wydarzenie odbędzie 19 maja 2022 r. w godz. 9:00-13:00 i jest przeznaczone dla pracowników administracji publicznej w regionie. Zakres szkolenia obejmuje podstawy tworzenia i sprawdzania dokumentów programu Word oraz PDF, wymagania prawne oraz prezentację wykorzystania czytnika.
On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, #GAAD22 we are launching a competition open to all, a #JingleOlympics to create a few seconds of sound that will be our new sonic logo. This will identify us and greet the billions with vision impairment, 2.2 billion at least say @WHO. We’ve got so many talented young people in our movement, on off the sports fields. But this is open to all! Information will be at www.specialolympics.com/soniclogo/ from May 19th, 22.
Sarthak Educational Trust works towards the empowerment of PwDs since 2008, supporting their journey with a lifecycle approach. Join us for this enriching panel discussion with top accessibility & inclusivity leaders and be a part of this global movement building a world for all!
Accessibility in India: Present Scenario & Scope Celebrating the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) The aim of this discussion is to spread awareness about Digital accessibility, inclusion, and scenario and scope of accessibility in India. The panelists for this discussion are – Rakesh Paladugula (Product Manager for Accessibility at Adobe), Amar Jain (Advocate and a certified professional in web accessibility) and Prashant Naik (Manager at Union Bank of India & Co-founder of Talking ATM)
Thursday, May 19, 2022 is the 11th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! Help GDG NYC & Google Women Techmakers celebrate GAAD and get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than one billion people with disabilities/impairments. 👉Join our special guest Christopher Patnoe, EMEA Lead for Accessibility and Disability Inclusion @ Google in a session moderated by Wendy Durica, Accessibility Advocate and Platform Team Lead at Kantar
Join the Twitter Accessibility Experience Team for a special #GAAD conversation. Meet the team, hear about our projects, and learn more about accessibility at Twitter.
In May 1999, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 were published by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C – the standards maker for the world wide web. Countries, states, and municipalities have adopted and adapted standards as the Internet evolved. In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, the Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities will host an interactive discussion on where we’ve come and what remains to be done.