Events & Activities

On May 7 at 11 AM ET, join Christopher M. Lee, PhD, CEO & President of the G3ict and Managing Director of the IAAP, and Corbb O’Connor, Director of Thought Leadership at Level Access, for a practical conversation about sustaining leadership support and building impactful learning programs in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. You’ll leave with concrete ideas for strengthening accessibility education across your organization and positioning your efforts in ways that executives recognize and support long-term.

Join GivePulse as we walk through the practical steps organizations across nonprofits, higher education, and the public sector can take to make their volunteer events genuinely welcoming to everyone. From writing clear, descriptive event listings that give volunteers the context they need, to choosing and communicating about accessible venues, to crafting thoughtful sign-up forms that ask the right questions, we’ll cover the full volunteer journey through an accessibility lens. Whether you’re just starting to think about inclusion or looking to strengthen practices you already have in place, you’ll walk away with concrete strategies and tools to create volunteer experiences where everyone feels informed, included, and empowered to participate. This webinar will take place Thursday, May 14 from 2 until 3 p.m. Eastern Time (U.S.)

The Assistive Tech Makers Community of Practice is excited to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Join us for an interactive session to explore assistive audio tools for mobile devices. This session will focus on built-in accessibility features for individuals with hearing loss or those who benefit from captioning on both Apple and Android phones. Participants are encouraged to bring their personal devices and headphones to try out the tools in real time. Jeffrey Ruffing from the Inglis Innovation Center, along with Instructional Technologists from the University Center for Teaching and Learning, will guide participants through step-by-step demonstrations of Live Listen and Sound Amplifier. Registration required.

Accessibility and usability are deeply connected. In recognition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), this webinar explores how the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) can be used as a foundation for creating more usable, intuitive digital experiences. Learn how to move beyond compliance thinking and apply WCAG’s principles and guidelines to improve design, interaction, and overall user satisfaction.

“An Accessibility Starter Pack: Content Creator Edition” is a Google Slides deck that presents a practical, easy-to-follow introduction to creating more inclusive digital content. This presentation highlights three core accessibility essentials for content creators: writing effective ALT text, using proper heading structure, and creating clear, descriptive links.

In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, join the Lighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches, Treasure Coast & Okeechobee for a virtual Lunch & Learn on May 20th at 12:00 PM focused on the real-world impact of accessibility across business, workforce, and community. Presented in partnership with Innovation Unbiased, this session goes beyond compliance to provide a practical approach for leaders looking to prioritize inclusion and drive meaningful results. Learn how ADA updates impact your organization, explore tools that support high-performing professionals with disabilities, and understand why accessibility leads to better outcomes for everyone. You’ll also gain insight into building accessibility as an ongoing priority, leveraging user-led accommodations, and strengthening your organization through community partnerships. Join us on Zoom for a live session with actionable takeaways you can put into practice right away.

On the eve of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, join three of UsableNet’s senior accessibility leaders for a candid panel discussion on what it really takes to make accessibility stick. The conversation will cover attitudes that drive (or derail) accessibility work, the substantial difference between WCAG conformance and legal compliance, how organizations should approach WCAG 2.2 AA as today’s standard- including why shifting left matters more than ever- and how the W3C APA Note Accessibility Model can help yoy document your process from reactive fixes to a sustainable, embedded program.

👋 Meet Title II (and more!)

👋 Mark Miller (Inclusion Impact Accessibility)

Though the Title II compliance deadline has been pushed out a year, that doesn’t mean we can kick the can another year. Accessibility expert Mark Miller will share what Title II is all about and why building accessible practices into your work now will help you serve all your users better.

🎤 Tips and Tricks for Increasing Tableau Dashboard Accessibility

🎤 Ben Snider

The University of Illinois has been updating their Tableau workbooks to comply with Title II for the last year. Ben Snider is here to share all the tips and tricks they’ve learned, and all the challenges they’ve faced in the process. You’ll come away with some very concrete updates you can make to your own dashboards to move towards compliance!

This event promotes Global Accessibility Awareness Day within our popular Spark Reading app. For this year’s GAAD, we are featuring a story in our app about Tess, one of the characters in our school-aged series about the Away From Keyboard club. In this story, Tess and her Bernese Mountain Dog Solomon roll down to the lunchroom to talk to the kindergarten classes about her wheelchair and how to behave around service dogs. Together we can build a world that’s accessible for everyone. Everybody is included and invited in the stories of our app!

Join the California Community Colleges Accessibility Center for our annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) workshop. This year’s theme, “Raising the Floor: Building a Culture of Access and Equity,” is all about shifting from basic compliance to a true institutional commitment to our learners. We are proud to feature a collaboration with presentations representing all three California Higher Education systems (CCC, CSU, and UC).