Events & Activities

Microsoft ASEAN celebrates Global Accessibility Awareness Day. This year’s theme, “Building a Culture of Inclusion: Making Accessibility Foundational to Technology and Digital Innovation,” reminds us that accessibility isn’t just a feature—it’s a mindset, a responsibility, and a catalyst for innovation.

You’ll hear from:

🎙️ Andrea Della Mattea, President, Microsoft ASEAN
🎙️ Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer, Microsoft
💬 Followed by a powerful panel moderated by Paul Carvouni with trailblazers including:

• Nina Alag Suri, Founder & CEO, X0PA AI
• Aditi Nawani, Accessibility Practice Head, HCL Tech
• Ryan Gersava, Founder & Chairman, Virtualahan
• Shriram Parthasarathy, Social Media Ops Lead, Microsoft Asia

We’re coming together to celebrate progress, share ideas, and reaffirm our commitment to a future where technology includes everyone. This is more than an event—it’s a movement.

Join us on Friday, May 16th for Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) —a day dedicated to sparking conversations, expanding knowledge, and driving action around digital access and inclusion. Designing with everyone in mind is so important, and this meetup is an opportunity to connect with others, learn, and contribute to a more inclusive digital world. Join us in the back Garden on Friday, May 16 at noon, at New Holland Brewing in Battle Creek, MI. Come for lunch, and great conversations.

Join us on May 16th at 15:00 (GMT+2) for 5 hours with the leading experts and influencers from the Spanish-speaking sector at this event where they’ll share their knowledge through completely free talks and workshops. This is the first event organized by weAAAre, so don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the best in accessibility and inclusion.

How is the digital accessibility of your company’s web platforms? Can you answer this question? Have you ever carried out an analysis that characterizes, based on evidence, the current status of digital accessibility of your company’s most important and used web platforms? This is precisely what this free workshop is about. Aimed at design leaders currently working on digital transformation, regardless of their responsibilities, this practical workshop can help, through a series of very simple analyses, to understand the current status of the digital accessibility of each company’s web platforms.

As part of the Suarise GAAD celebration 2025, Suarise in collaboration with Visinema invite you to experience Bioskop Bisik (Whispering Cinema) Jumbo—a unique, inclusive movie screening designed for people with and without disabilities to enjoy together. The event will gather volunteers as whisperers, and pair them with The Blind and Low Vision to enjoy the newest ayet most succesful animation film in Indonesia. Dalam edisi khusus ini, kami menciptakan ruang yang ramah di mana aksesibilitas bukan sekadar renungan—tetapi fitur utama untuk menikmati hiburan bersama secara inklusif. All chosen volunteers will get quick training about audio description.

In Indonesia entertainment sector, there is a rise of awareness of inclusive entertainment. While many events, including concerts starting to provide sign language interpreter, many visual based entertainmet still lack of accomodation for those in need, such at people with Low Vision and the Blind. This sharing session will introduce and discuss the importance of audio description, how to do it correctly, and how it should be performed in digital platform. Hosted by A11yID, the speaker will be from a certified audio description specialist. Whether you’re a designer, developer, content creator, or simply curious about accessibility, this session will deepen your understanding of inclusive storytelling—before enjoying the final presentations of the Accessibility Design Challenge.

Join us as we celebrate innovation and inclusion at the final presentation day of Indonesia’s first Accessibility Design Challenge, hosted by Suarise and A11yID. This event is the culmination of weeks of independent learning, group workshops, and mentorship where students and professionals in UI/UX have reimagined how accessibility can be integrated from the design stage. Now, our finalist teams are ready to present their Figma prototypes and accessibility documentation—demonstrating how thoughtful design can break digital barriers. Whether you’re a designer, developer, educator, policymaker, or accessibility advocate, this is your chance to see inclusive design in action, connect with the community, and be inspired by the next generation of accessibility champions. — The Accessibility Design Challenge event stems from critical insights highlighted in a recent Deque Case Study in 2023, which revealed that a staggering 67% of accessibility issues originate during the design phase of digital products.Therefore, there is an urgency of eto enhance awareness and practical skills in digital accessibility design among students and UI/UX professionals. This event continuing the 2024 A11y Bootcamp, the first digital accessibility bootcamp in Indonesia. Supported by ISIF Asia & APNIC Foundation

Breaking Barriers: Code for Inclusion An inclusive tech hackathon celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), live from Beirut Digital District. This 48-hour challenge brought together innovators, developers, designers, and advocates to build real-world solutions that empower people with disabilities and champion digital inclusion. From AI-driven tools to accessible platforms, the top teams turned bold ideas into impact-driven prototypes — breaking barriers, one line of code at a time.

When it comes to creating inclusive digital learning content, accessibility requirements can be difficult to understand and interpret, making it challenging for instructional designers and content authors to create content that is accessible for all learners. Our complimentary webinar offer tips for creating accessible learning, based on our interpretation of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Using the content authoring platform dominKnow | ONE, we will demonstrate how content authors can use the tool to create accessible learning content that complies with WCAG 2.2. We will also show you what these features look like from the learner’s perspective, using a sample course we have created.

Some of the features we will demonstrate in the webinar include:

• Keyboard navigation
• Input assistance and errors
• Alt Text and Focus
• Transcripts and Closed Captions
• Colour, contrast and audio

This accessible learning webinar will provide valuable insights and practical guidance for content authors already using dominKnow | ONE, as well as those who are new to the tool.

Have you ever stopped to think about what it’s like to face accessibility barriers in daily life? In this Empathy Lab, we’ll explore interactive and practical experiences that simulate the challenges faced by many people with disabilities. This activity is designed to raise awareness among non-disabled participants and is intentionally not accessible.