Accessibility isn’t just for GAAD, it’s for life, but as we have for the past few years, UXPA UK is joining in the celebrations. We’re always glad when it’s GAAD! Speakers Jamie Knight and Danny Weissberg will give two fascinating talks on the potential and power that digital accessibility can provide in terms of inclusive research and design for the Metaverse and Inclusive AI in a Voice-First World. The event is free and open to all, live English captions will be provided by a stenographer.
Event Type: Virtual Events
This 90-minute panel discussion, a collaboration of G3ict, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) & the World Economic Forum (WEF) will be targeted specifically to cities in Europe but open to participants worldwide. The discussion will demonstrate how Smart Cities worldwide are uniquely positioned to use their considerable purchasing power, including of information & communications technologies (ICT), to advance the rights and digital inclusion of persons with disabilities & older persons.
Join Diamond CEO & Global Accessibility Awareness Day Co-founder Joe Devon, the Honorable Tony Coelho (author of the Americans with Disabilities Act), and Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Chief Accessibility Officer, Microsoft) for a fireside chat about how the digital landscape has evolved since the ADA became law and what companies can do in response.
Atos beteiligt sich seit 2015 an GAAD, die Premiere 2022: Erstmalig finden bereits vor dem weltweiten Aktionstag landesspezifische Online-Veranstaltungen statt. Für die Region Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz ist es am 16. Mai so weit. Motto: “Accessibility at Scale”. Mainstreaming A11y Disability Driven Innovation: GIZ, Zero Project, Sozial Held*innen Leadership Panel: Google, Microsoft, Siemens, Atos Experten Interviews: Joschi Kuphal, Domingos de Oliveira, Melly Eilert, Martin Müller
Many Cats Studios showcases this year’s Accessibility Tips from various game devs, content creators and gamers from around the world. https://www.manycats.uk/one-minute-tips
Amnet—a Technabled Publishing Solutions company with over 20 years of experience in the publishing domain—champions digital accessibility. And this year, to celebrate GAAD, we bring you an informative webinar, by Charles LaPierre, technical lead, Global Certified Accessible, Benetech. The webinar will be moderated by Frances Daniele, director of accessibility and key relationships, Amnet.
The prototyping team PLAYERS has co-created products and services for the visually impaired with Mizuno, JR East, the Blind Soccer Association, and others. This event, held in collaboration with GAAD Japan, will be a frank talk about the design research conducted by PLAYERS and the “white cane that makes you want to go out with it” jointly planned with Mizuno, from the viewpoints of visually impaired people, supporters, and companies.
Agora is a conference aimed at ICT utilisation by visually impaired users. The plenary session will take place on Saturday morning and will offer participants the opportunity to learn about selected topics through short, frontal-led presentations. You can look forward to talks on tactile graphics, 3D printing, accessible games, and the latest development in the field of assistive technologies for people with visual impairment.
Zain Group will be hosting a Microsoft workshop with our partners with Microsoft all its employees on all the new digital accessibility features available to us through Microsoft Office to support us become more accessible through our everday tasks.
This event is an inaugural lecture. Professor Anastasios Maragiannis will present an overview of co-design methodologies, demonstrating how embedding inclusivity ethics at the baseline of such processes can result in immediate benefits for the designer and the end-user. During the event, will outline research that mobilising inclusivity ethics, an under-investigated aspect of design training and discourse can significantly improve design practice research for the 21st-century world we live in.