3Play Media is happy to be joined by Catarina Rivera, MSEd, MPH, CPACC for a session that will offer a practical introduction to disability and ableism. Catarina will share common microaggressions, how to avoid them, and simple strategies for how to be more inclusive for both colleagues and customers.
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Accessibility shouldn’t be confined to project timelines or checkpoints. It’s a crucial consideration in user research, design, content strategy, development, and ongoing improvements — applicable not just to a single project but as a continuous practice across all your initiatives. We’ll share insights into our work with organisations such as RNIB and Mind to provide practical advice from our development team and strategic perspectives on user-centred design to equip you with the knowledge and motivation to champion accessibility within your charity. Our special guest, Quarina from RNIB, will highlight the critical accessibility considerations and achievements for their service users, offering invaluable perspectives on creating inclusive digital environments. We’ll cover: • Integrating accessibility into user research, design, and development phases. • Key learnings and achievements in making digital services more accessible. • Insights from Quarina of RNIB and our Torchbox experts on creating inclusive digital environments. • Tips on user-centred design and development practices for enhancing accessibility. • A Q&A with our speakers to discuss accessibility challenges and strategies. This webinar will show how embracing accessibility at every stage enhances user experience for all, fostering digital environments that are inclusive, resilient, and user-friendly.
In today’s digital landscape, accessibility is paramount. With the evolution of technology and the ever-changing accessibility guidelines, publishers and content creators are faced with the challenge of ensuring that their content is user-friendly and accessible to all. Image descriptions, serve as a textual description of images, graphics, and multimedia elements within digital content. Understanding their significance and mastering their creation can greatly enhance the accessibility of your content, making it inclusive for all users, including those with visual impairments. It also forms a core part of overall accessibility, increasingly required for compliance across global markets. Lumina Datamatics invites you for an insightful webinar where industry experts Stacy Scott, Head of Accessibility, Taylor & Francis Group and Simon Mellins, Digital Publishing Consultant and Accessibility Specialist will delve into the intricacies of image description, its pivotal role in content accessibility, practical tips on creation and implementation
Designing for all digital audiences should be celebrated and practiced every day –not just on Global Accessibility Awareness Day. In this spirit, QA Consultants is bringing awareness to inclusive design for websites, apps, software, and everything digital in between. Every user deserves a first-rate digital experience on the web. Everyone with a disability must be able to experience web-based services, content, and other digital products with the same successful outcome as those without disabilities. Human-based accessibility assessments can’t be replaced by digital automation tools. Without actual human interaction and observation, organizations will not get a clear picture of how accessible its digital products are, putting compliance, reputation, sales, and the end-user experience at risk. QA Consultants mitigates this risk with dozens of certified digital accessibility engineers dedicated to setting your products up for success – from design through testing and post-launch, including inclusive design and accessibility testing performed by experienced QA professionals with lived disabilities.
On Global Accessibility Awareness Day Aira’s blind and low vision staff will take you through our new Access AI feature. Learn about the many ways to get image descriptions and information that can be verified by one of our professional visual interpreters. You can share images and descriptions, ask questions before sending an image and more.
In the web accessibility space, you’ll often hear the phrase #ProgressNotPerfection. But how do you kickstart that progress and achieve compliance and (near) perfection? Join us for a special Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) webinar where we’ll be joined by the team at The Salvation Army to hear how they’ve tackled website accessibility. Hear from Leah MacGibbon, Joseph Pinkard and Erryn Barlow on how they stayed inspired to tackle web accessibility and being a more digitally inclusive organisation.
Ahead of Engage London 2024, we’ll be celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on May 16th with a dedicated fireside chat on the landscape of digital accessibility in Europe. What challenges are European organizations facing when it comes to accessibility? What is a realistic approach for organizations looking to achieve compliance? And more importantly, what are the consequences for not staying up-to-date with accessibility practices? Join us for a fireside chat between Acquia’s Lars Sørensen and Sam Padmore and Marcus Deglos from Capgemini for a discussion on the progress that European organizations have made, what still needs to happen, and thoughts on how to push the envelope on more inclusive digital experiences after the 2025 deadline. This session will be moderated by Tom Bianchi.
Digital experiences are ever changing, but a new priority is arising at the desks of marketing and IT business leaders — digital accessibility. For years, the state of digital accessibility has made slow progress; WebAIM’s 2024 report on website accessibility found that 95.9% of home pages had detected Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) 2 failures. And businesses are paying the price. How do you ensure that your organization isn’t missing out on growth opportunities by not delivering accessible digital experiences? How do you encourage and build an accessibility-first mentality within your organization? And how do you ensure education, accountability, and compliance? Join us for a fireside chat between Jennifer Griffin Smith, Matt Wettmore, and Lars Sørensen as they take an honest look at the challenges of tackling digital accessibility at an organizational level, how technology can be both a benefit and a pitfall, and how an accessibility focus can help you grow your business. This session will be moderated by Mary Blabaum.
The A11Y Collective is the e-learning platform for anyone who wants to learn more about web accessibility. We offer IAAP approved courses on accessibility basics, accessible design, code and content and we offer masterclasses and advanced coding courses. On Global Accessibility Awareness Day we want to give everyone the chance to enroll in one of our courses by letting you decide the price yourself. 20% of the proceeds during GAAD will go to Sense, an organization dedicated to supporting people who are deafblind.
To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), Intopia is excited to host a special ‘Ask Me Anything’ webinar. This is a chance for you to have your digital accessibility questions answered by a panel of our team members, who all have first-hand experience of living with a disability. Learn from: • Neil Jarvis, Senior Digital Accessibility Consultant • Tess Hutley, Inclusive Learning Consultant • Adem Cifcioglu, Director and Co-founder Whether you’re new to accessibility or looking to deepen your existing knowledge, our experts are here to provide valuable, personal insights that can help you deepen your accessibility and inclusion practices. Registration is not required. You can join through Zoom on the day, or watch the recording on our YouTube channel after the webinar. Live captioning will be included.