LTUX conversa sobre Acessibilidade (GAAD)

Palestra sobre “Componentes de acessibilidade para pessoas surdas” Painel sobre “Consultorias de Acessibilidade”

Disabled in Tech

Slack’s Abilities ERG is excited to host a panel discussion open to all next Thursday, May 20th at 12:30pm PT in celebration of the tenth anniversary of GAAD. GAAD’s goal is to bring awareness to digital access and inclusion for the 1 billion+ people with disabilities across the planet. There is an overwhelming lack of disability representation and diversification in tech leadership, and we’re looking forward to having the panel shed light on this and a few other important issues at hand.

Spring Agora 2021 ONLINE: celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day with us

Agora is a conference aimed at the topic of ICT usage by visually impaired users. What can you look forward to? # Hear what you want to see: with Envision app and glasses # Advanced usage of ZoomText # How to read books efficiently – working with the WinMenu 2 Beletrik software for younger and more advanced users # TType: touch typing made fun # Educational not-just-tactile sets using 3D printing # The rental shop for compensatory aids and sports gear # Eureka A4 – The phenomenon of its era

Accessibility – Rated E for Everyone

Let’s talk about accessibility and what it means for us developers. We’ll cover a lot of ground in thought process for accessible design, good mindsets to uphold, and fostering a genuine desire to make something for truly everyone. When we make our apps accessible, we talk software development and turn it into a human experience. While we’ll be touching on some Swift language principles for iOS development, anyone is encouraged to attend.

WCAG: A Developer’s Best Friend

Women Who Code Cincinnati is excited to host Natalie Stroud, CPACC, Web Accessibility Specialist (she/her), to Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) with our community on May 20 at 6 pm ET. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are the set of guidelines Natalie works from to help determine what passes/fails when auditing websites. However, WCAG is a great tool for anyone and everyone – web accessibility specialists, developers, UX, designers, you name it. It can be scary

Importance of Digital Accessibility & the Growing Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities

Webinar on the Importance of Digital Accessibility and Growing Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities. Our panelists: Mr. Rahul Jindal, Google Ms. Shilpi Kapoor, BarrierBreak Moderated by: Mr. Priyaranjan Bidhar, TRRAIN

The Journey to Accessibility: Why it Matters & Why it Takes so Long

Typeform’s journey towards accessibility has been a long and complex one. Here’s your chance to find out what we’re at – and why it’s taken us so long to get here. We hope that by sharing this, we can help you more easily address accessibility in your business’ online interactions – and in turn help your audience overcome the boundaries to participation. Join Olga and @yuricmartins from Typeform’s Accessibility Guilde as we replay the talk they gave at our recent Meaningful event.

The 2 billion people FMCG holistic Accesibility challenge/opportunity

Holistic accessibility within FMCG is a huge unmet need and untapped opportunity, which impacts literally billions of people. At Aire, we want to raise the awareness and priority of this challenge, and also be able to offer pragmatic solutions to it. I’m joined by 3 of the worlds leading forces on this topic – Marc Powell, Strategic Accessibility Lead at the Royal National Institute for the Blind and Sam Waller from the University of Cambridge, and Gavin Greenhalf from Aire Global

10 Years of GAAD: A Fireside Chat with the Co-Founders

Join GAAD co-founders on the 10th anniversary of Global Accessibility Awareness Day as they discuss the progress, emerging challenges, and future direction of the foundation.

Pave the Way to GAAD

The 2nd Annual Pave the Way to Global Accessibility Awareness Day (PWGAAD) was scheduled for April 21, 2021. This is a one-day exhibition of accessible electronics, information and technology, provided by advocacy groups, subject matter experts and vendors.  Our target audiences include students, Higher Ed. staff & faculty, business owners and community members.