Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day with AudioEye on May 19th! Our accessibility experts, Alisa Smith and Sylvia Rodemeyer, will talk about launching AudioEye’s A11iance community program last year and working with a group of assistive technology users to test websites. They’ll share more details about the program and participants, lessons learned, and opportunities for growth.
Event Type: Virtual Events
Neurodivergent learners have unique skills and abilities that set them apart from their neurotypical counterparts. If supported effectively, neurodivergent learners tend to excel, especially in the STEAM fields, and their skills can lead to significant contributions in these areas. This makes it even more critical that we take the necessary steps to ensure their time in academia truly does accommodate every learner. Learn various strategies for supporting neurodivergent learners.
Though the DOJ has taken a significant step forward when it released guidance on web accessibility and the ADA in March 2022, it doesn’t mean it’s crystal clear for everyone. If you are still unclear about what the guidance means for you, we’re here to help. Accesible360’s founder and renowned industry expert Michele Landis will moderate a panel of defense and plaintiff attorneys to discuss the reasoning, potential impacts, and more.
Please join CIBC as we celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day with renowned accessibility innovator and changemaker Luke Anderson of the StopGap Foundation. Learn through Luke’s incredible story about the importance of inclusive design, an accessibility mindset and community building. Along the way, you’ll get to hear some of the exciting ways that CIBC is committed to making banking more inclusive for our clients with disabilities and their families, and get to share your own perspectives
Brett Strydom has been developing software for 20 years. His experience includes helping to build scalable software capable of handling millions of transactions, building actuarial models and developing strong Agile teams. Special interests include Mathematics and artificial intelligence. In this talk he will be sharing some of my experiences as a blind developer and he will share some tips and guidelines should a blind person join your team.
Join Siteimprove on May 19 to learn more about how you can improve your website’s accessibility and to see how creating a truly welcoming environment for all users can grow your business. This free, virtual event includes 15 sessions with industry experts including: Albert Kim, Gareth Ford Williams, Keith Bundy, Samantha Evans, Claudio Luis Vera, Dan Rossi, and more. Each will share their own experiences and insights about how you can work toward a holistic, digital accessibility strategy.
From your web content, emails and newsletters, effective content is accessible to all. Writing in plain language sets the foundation for accessibility. In this session, you’ll learn:
- Benefits of plain language
- How to write in plain language
- Making content accessible & inclusive
- Using readability tools
The recording of the webinar is available on YouTube with this link: City of Minneapolis plain language webinar
WCAG, the Equality Act, ADA and the forthcoming European Accessibility Act now help businesses to build digital products with inclusion and accessibility in mind. But often mere compliance is the goal. Good universal design requires us to go far further. Join our panel of UX, design & accessibility experts as they provide insight into experiencing disability in the digital age, the misconceptions of accessibility and how to build user-centricity into universal design.
Prakat Solutions, EqualGenius Foundation, Mitra Jyothi and Dalrada Corporation are hosting yet another virtual event this year. After 7 years of physical events we went virtual due to the global pandemic. The event in 2021 had the largest ever viewership in the history of our event which started off as GAAD India.
This GAAD, celebrate accessibility and spread positivity around accessibility. Share accessibility features that you like the most of any Products, Services, Digital – Web or Mobile, Built Environment, or Gaming. Support #SpotlightAccessibility. Stay tuned and follow our social media handles for exciting updates.