How do individuals who are blind or visually impaired utilize assistive technology to choose and use their preferred services or e-commerce merchants? Accessibility barriers can negatively impact or prevent persons with disabilities from accessing digital content. Join us for a conversation with three panelists who are blind or visually impaired to discuss how they actually encounter these blockers to education, employment, and daily living tasks when navigating the digital world.
Event Type: Virtual Events
Join us to learn about accessibility in transportation for pleasure or work. The Canadian Transportation Agency will deliver an over view of the accessibility they have built into their website, programs, and services thus providing a more accessible and inclusive way to travel throughout Canada. Live virtual event where attendees can ask questions/provide comments. To register for event email: Info@Access2Accessibility.com (link is not made public to avoid hackers)
Join Access 2 Accessibility’s 4th Annual GAAD Event. Once again, Microsoft will be providing an overview of accessibility in their programs and products to help people use accessibility in technology for their business and personal use. Virtual live event. Attendees will have opportunity to provide questions/comments during event. Link will be provided upon RSVP request to: Info@Access2Accessiblity.com (link not made public to avoid hackers)
In celebration of this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), Deque is offering a free 2-day virtual workshop (6 total hours) for front-end developers and designers seeking practical accessibility skills that you can apply on the job. Attendees should be comfortable with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and have a basic understanding of what accessibility is.
Our purpose is to give visibility to the digital inclusion of the more than one billion people with disabilities. In this Digital Workshop, Consuelo Correa Barros, graphic designer and teacher of Inclusive Design at “Universidad del Desarrollo” and activist for accessibility in Latin America, will talk to us from Chile about digital accessibility trends in LATAM. In addition, Carmen García, from Siteimprove, will tell us why being a digitally inclusive organization is the big challenge of 2021.
Many Cats is bringing together accessibility experts, developers and gamers to tell us what their accessibility tip would be for others in 1 minute videos.
At Digita11y Accessible our objective is to help raise visibility for the Accessibility community by partaking in the annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) celebrations. We will be delivering high-value content for participants to learn more about WoT, digital accessibility, inclusion and creating barrier-free websites to enhance the end-user digital experience.
WeCo’s 2021 Global Accessibility Awareness Day Program focuses on Race and Disability: A discussion about Stigma, Culture and Resources
Connect! Stories! Fun! Impact! Signup to play Truths & Insights for 60 mins to discuss accessibility strategies at GAAD 2021. Truths & Insights is a multiple-award winning, gamified web-experience where groups of six get to share, listen and react to each other’s lived experiences on accessibility outcomes, roadblocks and strategy. Every session will help people in finding their voice, having their voices heard, and drive collective empathy & learning.
To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we are hosting a webinar to highlight how our research and insights industry can and should design research to be inclusive of people with disabilities. This free webinar will feature two experts on designing inclusive research: Lauren Isaacson of Curio Research and Margaret Brigley, CAIP of Narrative Research.