Events & Activities

The 4th Thursday ADA Talks are monthly webinars on topics about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), disability rights, and access that run for 1 hour on the 4th Thursday from January to October 2026 (10 webinars). In This 4th Thursday ADA Talk on May 28: Documents abound online, in print, and in everyday communications. Discover practical points to prep and process access in structure and design, plus check your progress to providing access for people with disabilities whether a publication, presentation, post, or picture. Digital Access Matters!

Think and learn more during the year and on Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) celebrated on the third Thursday of May.

Visit: https://accessibility.day

Registration: Each webinar has captioning and American Sign Language (ASL).

Register online for 4th Thursday ADA Talks at: https://bit.ly/4th-thursday-ada-talks-2026

Credit: Get a Certificate of Participation after you view an entire webinar (live or archive) and complete the Post Test Eval.

Hosts for 4th Thursday ADA Talks: University of Kentucky Human Development Institute (HDI), Southeast ADA Center, Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University.

El día 21 de mayo de 2026 se celebra el Día Mundial de la Concienciación sobre la Accesibilidad Digital, y una semana después, el día 28 de mayo, organizamos en la Universidad de Lleida una jornada para aprender sobre personas, diseño, desarrollo web, documentos, evaluación e inteligencia artificial en el ámbito de la accesibilidad digital. La participación es gratuita y se realizará en modalidad online. Es necesario completar previamente el formulario de inscripción. Programa de la jornada. 17:00 – 17:35 Bienvenida – La acesibilidad no es opcional (Damià Vericat Querol, Vicerector de Gobernanza y PTGAS y Núria Camps Mirabet), Vicerectora de Compromiso Social, Igualdad y Cooperación. 17:35 – 17:55 Desmontando mitos de la accesibilidad digital (Mario Almonte Moreno, Formador y consultor en accesibilidad digital) 17:55 – 18:15 El mayor bug de tu interfaz no está en el código (Xavi Cardet, Caixa Bank) Una web más a la medida de cada usuario: lo que promete WAI-ADAPT de W3C (Alberto Pedrero Esteban, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca) Inteligencia Artificial y accesibilidad: ampliando capacidades, reduciendo barreras (Oriol Gomez Sentis, Responsable de Accesibilidad digital en Dow Jones) Más allá del validador: criterios para considerar un PDF verdaderamente accesible (Jose Humanes Elich, Consultor Senior en IA y Accesibilidad Digital) Reto en directo: evaluación fácil de la accesibilidad web (Afra Pascual Almenara, Universitat de Lleida)

Lumen Accessibility Experience Day: An experience-based community event in Hungary where visitors can explore accessibility through simple, hands-on situations such as navigating in darkness, communicating in noise, and using digital interfaces in different ways. The program is open to all ages and invites participants to reflect on how everyday environments can become easier to use for everyone.

For digital accessibility, a versatile design is essential—one that can adapt to different contexts and usage patterns. Since not all users interact with interfaces in the same way—often relying on different assistive technologies and strategies—it is crucial to consider flexible solutions, such as scalable fonts, which allow reading to be adjusted to individual needs. Font scaling, common in mobile devices and web browsers, enables text to be proportionally enlarged to ensure full readability. Design tools like Figma, through the use of variables, provide design teams with agile testing models for different scenarios still in the design phase. In this webinar, we will explore in practice how you can use Figma variables to help test font scaling versions of interfaces.

An online discussion featuring Indonesian diaspora developers working in Europe, sharing their experiences implementing accessibility practices within international product teams. The session explores workplace culture, accessibility standards, organizational challenges, and practical lessons from building accessibility initiatives from the ground up in European tech environments. While accessibility integration in local Indonesian product development practices may still be relatively uncommon, this session brings perspectives from two countries with more mature accessibility ecosystems, Norway and the Netherlands, and examines how regulations, organizational culture, and industry expectations shape accessible digital products. Whether accessibility expertise is seen as a practical skill to improve inaccessible Indonesian digital products, a professional advantage for working in global companies, or even part of the preparation for #KaburAjaDulu, this discussion aims to provide grounded insights into how accessibility is applied in real production environments — beyond theory, compliance checklists, or temporary trends. Participants will gain firsthand perspectives on how accessibility work is positioned inside international teams, how cross-functional collaboration happens in practice, and what technical and non-technical competencies are increasingly valued in today’s global digital industry.

Who gets to show up, participate, and fully engage in your event? The answer starts with accessibility. Join Disability Belongs™ for a free virtual training, Accessible By Design: Creating Inclusive Events That Work for Everyone, on Tuesday, June 9th at 1:30 p.m. ET, and learn how to plan events that open the door to more people from the very beginning. This interactive session will equip you with the tools to design events that are inclusive from the outset. You will learn why accessibility is foundational to effective events and how to integrate it across every stage of planning. The training will cover key considerations for in-person, virtual, and hybrid formats, with practical guidance you can apply immediately. By the end of the session, you will be able to identify common barriers to participation, communicate accommodations clearly, and design experiences that support physical, digital, sensory, and cognitive access. The session will also highlight how clear, complete information empowers attendees to make informed decisions about participation. The webinar includes live CART captioning and ASL interpretation to support access for a wide range of participants. A live Q&A at the end of the session will give you the opportunity to ask specific questions and get guidance tailored to your needs. All registered participants will receive a recording of the training and the slide deck afterward. Register today to develop your skills and create events that work for everyone.

A focused group discussion designed to explore sensory experiences, accessibility barriers, and inclusive interaction patterns in games through direct dialogue with disabled gamers and relevant stakeholders. This session is intended as an early collaborative step to help initiate more grounded accessibility practices within the Indonesian game industry. Despite Indonesia being one of the largest gaming markets in Southeast Asia, accessible gaming practices are still rarely discussed or implemented within local studio workflows. In many cases, the topic remains limited to academic research or student theses, while studios and developers may still be unsure where to begin. Although global accessibility guidelines for games already exist, building meaningful implementation in Indonesia requires direct user validation and contextual understanding from players who experience barriers firsthand. This FGD aims to become one of those starting points — creating space for studios, developers, communities, and disabled gamers to exchange perspectives and identify practical accessibility priorities together. Insights from the discussion will be compiled into an open-source repository to support future accessibility practices, experimentation, and learning within Indonesia’s gaming ecosystem. Invited Indonesian game studio, game community, game professionals and media are welcome to observe. Shall you part of aforementioned segments and willing to observe during the FGD, please reach out to event@suarise.com.

An online talk show connecting game studios, developers, disabled gamers, accessibility practitioners, and gaming communities to initiate broader conversations about accessible gaming in Indonesia. The session aims to encourage collaboration, awareness, and practical action toward creating more inclusive gaming ecosystems and experiences. Accessible Gaming by bringing together diverse stakeholders — from game practitioners and communities to disabled gamers — to spark dialogue and share emerging practices in Indonesia. As the largest gaming market in Southeast Asia, Indonesia is home to an estimated 192 million gamers. Indonesian game studios are also increasingly involved in the global game development ecosystem, contributing to internationally scaled projects and production pipelines. At the same time, the global gaming industry has started paying more serious attention to accessibility through inclusive design practices and accessibility features that support players with diverse needs and ways of interaction. Despite this potential, millions of Indonesians with disabilities still face barriers in accessing digital products and gaming experiences. This talk show explores how the gap between accessibility needs and current implementation can be transformed into an opportunity — not only to expand market reach, but also to position Indonesian studios and developers as active contributors within the evolving global game industry. The discussion will also highlight how accessibility can become part of innovation, product quality, and international competitiveness for local studios seeking to engage with global audiences and industry standards.

An interactive workshop introducing the Reverse Empathy Map, a participatory accessibility method developed by Suarise to help teams better understand barriers experienced by disabled users in digital products and interactive experiences. Unlike conventional empathy mapping that often relies on assumptions, this approach encourages participants to examine friction points, exclusion patterns, sensory overload, and accessibility gaps directly from the perspective of users who encounter them. Through accessibility simulation, discussion, and guided reflection, participants will explore how design decisions, gameplay mechanics, interfaces, audio, controls, and interaction systems may unintentionally create barriers for different users. The workshop is designed to help studios, designers, and developers move beyond compliance-oriented thinking and build a more practical understanding of inclusive game experiences. This session also aims to encourage local game teams to start accessibility discussions earlier within their production process by using user-centered and experience-based approaches that are more contextual to real implementation challenges in Indonesia. This event is for selected Indonesian game studio, game community, game professionals and media. Shall you part of aforementioned segments and willing to take part representing your studio/community, please reach out to kelas@suarise.com.

An Inclusive Play Session pairing disabled and non-disabled players held in a public space to demonstrate accessible gaming in action to spectators and gather public attention to this topic. Open for People with Disabilities* (gamers and non-gamers) and non-disability as buddy/pair, volunteers, and observer. There are Open for public, but highly recommended for Indonesian game community, game studio, and game developer professionals. Since this is a pilot program, for current play session, we accept PwD participant from Visually Impaired (Blind and low vision), Hard of hearing and Deaf, and Motoric/Physical Disability (limited upper limb and wheelchair users).

Shortlisted games are:

1. 1. Just Dance
2. The Last of Us Part II
3. Blind Drive
4. Atomfall
5. It Takes Two
6. Forza Motorsport on PC, PS5, and driving simulator.

Registration only with selected time booking.