One Minute Accessibility

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.

Global Accessibility Awareness Day with Digita11y Accessible

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.

Race and Disability: A discussion about Stigma, Culture and Resources

WeCo’s 2021 Global Accessibility Awareness Day Program focuses on Race and Disability: A discussion about Stigma, Culture and Resources

Truths & Insights Olympiad – Strategizing Accessibility with Gamification

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.

Designing Accessible Research

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.

Webinar: Digital accessibility

To mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day PIF’s expert panel of speakers will describe the personal impact of inaccessible tools and discuss solutions to improve accessibility. Speakers from Ability Net, Public Digital Health and Care Wales and TextHelp.

Gaming for RNIB

Gamers are being encouraged to fundraise for The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) as part of a drive to highlight inclusion in gaming. Coinciding with GAAD, RNIB is encouraging supporters to use their enjoyment of online gaming to support the charity via livestreams on or around this date. Gamers will be supported with materials including overlays of various sight conditions and films about our work.

a11y Round Table

Our roundtables are a place to share experiences and challenges and exchange ideas. We do this with professionals from different markets and industries, with one overarching interest: web technology. Each month we host one online meeting, each with a different topic. For the month of May we have chosen a11y. Because we are in the Netherlands and the number of participants is limited, we have chosen to only make this round table available to persons in the Netherlands.

t12t meetup – Creating an accessibility culture at work!

All talks will be on the topic of how to get an accessibility mindset at your workplace! This broadcast is free and will be captioned in English! Topics: Inclusive language at work, From nobody cares to natively curios, Sticky a11y wins, From a11y awareness to knowledge and ability, Accessibility as a quiz, I have to tell you.

Blending Accessibility into User Experience

The 10th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day takes place on Thursday, May 20. Blink is contributing to this day of awareness with a special event from 9am to 1pm PST. Join us as we host case study activities from Blink researchers, designers, project managers, developers, and testers. We’ll be sharing our best practices and exploring innovation in accessibility across a full range of skills.