The Past, Present and Future of Accessibility in Mozilla Hubs

The Mozilla Hubs team highly values the accessibility community’s voice in helping to make Hubs a more usable and accessible product. Dan Fernie-Harper from the Hubs Design and People Experiences team will present an update on the past, present, and future of accessibility in Mozilla Hubs, speaking about the user experience design process.

GAAD Webinar

This Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), join the Ablr team and our panelists online for our GAAD Webinar on Thursday, May 20 at 12pm ET, in which we will discuss why accessibility matters and how it impacts your organization and eCommerce. During this webinar, you will hear from Alisa Herr, CEO of Unity Web Agency, Mark Pope, Partner at Pope Tech, Andrew Crook, Accessibility Engineer at CVS Health, and Carrie Farber, Accessibility Lead at Walmart eCommerce.

Disabled in Tech

Disabled in Tech is meant to be a discussion around the experience of leaders who identify as being disabled. There is an overwhelming lack of representation & diversification from the disabled community in tech leadership. To get a better perspective on these issues, we’ll ask panelists to share their personal experiences and ask how they are enacting change in their organizations and the industry at large.

The Future of Accessible Websites

Zoom conference especially for GAAD day together with Access Israel, The Israeli Internet Association, and The Commission of People with Disabilities. We will host GAAD Founder, IAAP, Pannel of users with disabilities, web site specialist, and accessibility technology.

Special, One-Day Discount on all Digital Accessibility Curricula

For one day only, the eAccessibility team at Iowa State University Extension and Outreach will be discounting all digital accessibility courses by 10%! eCourses offer the most comprehensive, research-based education on the process of creating accessible digital documents in Microsoft Office, Adobe InDesign CC and Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

The Saga of Accessible Contrast, Forms and Non-Text Content

How can you know what colors and contrast are appropriate? How are images identified? How are forms being filled? How can you ensure that people with vision impairments can read your applications? This free webinar will help you realize how colors, forms and non-text content need to be designed and implemented in your application equally for everyone!

Esperienze di accessibilità e inclusione

Tra il 17 e il 23 maggio si festeggia la settimana dell’accessibilità. In quest’occasione REKORDATA, insieme con Scuole Cottolengo, promuove un evento speciale dedicato al tema dell’accessibilità e inclusione. Parteciperanno ospiti d’eccezione che ci parleranno di come costruire una scuola più accessibile e inclusiva con l’aiuto della tecnologia.

Ensuring digital accessibility for all: how do we get it right?

Institutions need to be doing more to include all students and make sure they are truly accessible. To discuss the realities for disabled students and professionals in higher education, we explore digital access regulations, guidelines and best practice. Join Piers Wilkinson (Diversity and Ability), Bethany Winkler (Edinburgh College) and Rohan Slaughter (University of Dundee) for a virtual premiere to learn what you can do to ensure you’re getting digital accessibility right.

How to make your videos accessible and inclusive

Video content is becoming increasingly popular and has been a crucial medium to disseminate content. Ensuring that your video reaches the widest audience possible is critical to its success and often a legal requirement. In this short presentation, Vithya will explain why accessible video is essential and highlight key elements to create an accessible video. This includes creating captions, Audio Description and searchable Transcription file. Presentation is part of the A11y Bytes event.

GAAD Special: Emerging Tech and Accessibility

Funka invites you to a special webinar on emerging tech and accessibility. Together with our panel of developers and experts, we’ll shine a spotlight on how technological innovation can empower and include persons with disabilities – and the accessibility hurdles that remain to be cleared. The webinar will be moderated by Emil Gejrot (CPACC), researcher at Funka. Emil has carried out a number of research studies on disability rights, accessibility and technology.