Event Type: Virtual Events

Are you an accessible and inclusive employer of choice? Are you providing accessible and inclusive services for your customers?

Not all disabilities and impairments are obvious, however inaccessible work practices can create major barriers in the workplace. Often very minor modifications need to be made to make a BIG difference.

In this panel Q&A you will hear about real strategies and methods to help you create more accessible and inclusive business practices, for your staff and your customers.

Welcome to an updated version of the TV program ‘MythBusters’! Our goal is to provide you with a real-life experience and debunk the most common accessibility myths. Let’s get acquainted! Some of us are people with visual impairment, and we belong to the dedicated team of Accessibility Test Engineers. Our mission is to help other people and facilitate the creation of accessible products for customers throughout the world. So, grasp your golden opportunity and join us!

Realizar o I CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL DE EDUCAÇÃO ESPECIAL NA PERSPECTIVA INCLUSIVA UNIR/PPGEEPROF, apoiado pelo GEPEIN – Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação Infantil, Infância e Educação Especial e Inclusiva – UNIR, entendemos que a educação especial na perspectiva inclusiva é um diferencial, porque, diferentemente da educação especial, ela não separa o aluno do convívio e aprendizado dos estudantes de uma escola regular.

Blackboard (now part of Anthology) is bringing back Fix Your Content Day, a 24-hour global competition committed to creating accessible and more inclusive digital learning content. The objective of the day is to mobilize instructors and staff to fix as many digital course files as possible through Blackboard Ally. Learn more about Ally: https://www.blackboard.com/teaching-learning/accessibility-universal-design/blackboard-ally-lms

In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, the Disability Faculty Staff Association and Disability Resource Center will be hosting a community panel. The aim of this panel is to discuss the disability experience during COVID-19 including challenges, “silver linings,” and things the disability community hopes will continue post-pandemic. Free and open to all faculty, staff, students, and the general public.

Discover how Scotiabank transformed the business need for a new mobile app into an opportunity to build a design-led culture of accessibility and inclusion in digital banking. The session will focus on Scotiabank’s journey to foster a culture of accessibility across digital product design.

In the current situation of repeated epidemics, we launched “D-STEM ACCESSIBLE GAMING VOLUNTEER SERVICE” , Universities Volunteer was trained to use remote control and video conference application – to achieve distance interaction accessible teaching and Co-Pilot play to Special Education Need (SEN) student.

If Global Accessibility Awareness Day on the 20th was the main event, you can consider the 27th the after party! Some might say we’re BAAD with a Belated Accessibility Awareness Day. However, why limit the celebration of accessibility to just one day a year? Join us for a discussion on topics such as accessible Wayfinding, TV devices and peripherals and gaming.

People with disabilities comprise the world’s largest minority group, and yet this 15% of the world’s population is severely underrepresented in astronomy and STEM as a whole. From university-run space science mentorship programs for blind high school students to accessible astronomy conference strategies to enabling the future of disabled astronauts, this session will showcase the latest advancements in science accessibility.

There is a new trend in website design, to not fix the site to make it WCAG compliant, but to just drop an overlay on the website.