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.
Event Type: Virtual Events
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/.