In this online event, you will meet market leading authoring tool producers and accessibility experts who have joined forces to make sure web authors get better support when creating accessible content. We will demonstrate the exciting results from two EU-funded research projects, where brand new features for “accessibility by default” have been developed.
Event Type: Virtual Events
Join us as we delve deeper into our journey of accessibility and the significance of creating inclusive digital content. Our goal is to breakdown the complexity regarding accessibility by sharing our personal journey of how we enable inclusive content on our websites, mobile apps and other digital channels which support federal and private clients alike. We will have a three person panel who are experts in accessibility and will be available for a live Q&A session as well. softrams.com LinkedIn
Dufferin Media and Dufferin Media Cares are hosting an Accessibility Challenge on May 20th to help bring awareness to accessibility issues on GAAD. We are encouraging businesses and organizations to do one thing on May 20th that makes their business more accessible and share it to social media. We will select two random participants and reward them with $100 each!
Accessibility and Digital meet at Tea at Five – Ethics and Arithmetic – in a special streaming episode. What support can digital give to make the world (digital and non-digital) more accessible? Antonella Grana will talk with our Ermes Tuon who will tell us about the #Accessiblelife project, the digital map of accessible outdoor places around the world. Andrea Tomasoni will also participate, illustrating the activities of his start-up Re-Moove, dedicated to mobility and inclusive tourism
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) with the Disability and Access Services team. This year, we’ll focus our discussion on video captioning. Join us to learn about MIT requirements, resources, and information for captioning. You’ll also hear from staff about their internal processes for captioning existing video and live captioning for events.
The INCLUDE Collaboratory is partnering with the ISTE Inclusive Learning Network to host a webinar featuring Linda Plantin Ewe and Pia Häggblom from Kristianstad University who will share how they are utilizing Universal Design for Learning to expand access and ensure accessibility in Sweden. Read more about their UDL work in the latest INCLUDE blog post from Ewe and Häggblom at https://include.wp.worc.ac.uk/udl-in-swedish-higher-education/.
AbilityNet marks GAAD 2021 by chatting on this webinar with the two co-founders of the annual event, Jennison Asuncion and Joe Devon, who discuss accessibility training, hybrid events and the GAAD pledge. (Recording accessible indefinitely and transcript and podcast available to download.)
A workshop to reflect and get tools on how to make our communications accessible to all, reflecting on: – Our images and videos in posts, blogs, website. – Our text, buttons in our website, and colour contrast. – Use of emojis and gifs. Register in the event URL and you will receive the zoom link for the event.
The GAADay Challenge Join ADCETs GAAD Australian Challenge GAA’day everyone. The Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training (ADCET) is throwing down a challenge to the Universities sector and the Vocational Education and Training providers within Australia to experience some accessibility features in their everyday work and life.
As we recognise Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2021, Infosys in collaboration with the Centre for Accessibility Australia and partners is hosting a virtual conversation with leaders from across industry, not for profits, media and a citizen’s perspective to accessibility in Australia & New Zealand.