Join us for a celebratory experience exploring open data mapping for access to transportation and mobility with OpenSidewalks At this event, we will:
Prior recommended work: sign up for an account on OpenStreetMap.org Who: Accessibility Advocates! Map and open data lovers! Sustainability advocates!
The NYC Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities invite you to celebrate GAAD with a presentation about making maps & data visualizations accessible. The presentation will include, Intro to digital accessibility & the WCAG standard, designing using an accessibility first approach, considering the needs of various users in your design & UX, accessibility concepts for maps & data visualizations, & live screen reader demonstrations. Register on the event website.
Voice-back is a simple online escape room simulation that helps you verify some basic mobile screen-reader skills and let you compete against yourself and others. When we produce for the web we should be able to quickly check how does it sound for screen-reader users. With more awareness and some practice we will for sure create better content and interactions for all.
The NYC Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities invites you to celebrate GAAD with a presentation on making maps & data visualizations accessible. The presentation will include, intro to digital accessibility and the WCAG standard, designing using an accessibility first approach, considering the needs of various users in your design and UX, Concepts to make your maps and data visualizations accessible as well as screen reader demonstrations. Visit the event website to register.
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.
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.
