Events & Activities

Free webinar: Join us in celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day with an empowering webinar, “Simple steps to greater accessibility.” Discover how small, actionable changes can make a big impact in your workplace. Whether it’s enhancing document formatting, adopting plain language, or establishing essential standards, you’ll learn how to make accessibility less daunting and more doable for everyone around you. We’ll also explore how to champion these initiatives within your design systems and perhaps even kickstart an accessibility guild. Don’t miss this chance to transform good intentions into great actions! We’ll also have time to answer your questions about accessibility. The discussion will include Michelle Chin, a design advocate from zeroheight, Geri Reid, a design systems and accessibility consultant, and Soren Hamby an accessibility and accessibility operations consultant.

Am 16. Mai 2024 ist der Global Accessibility Awareness Day, der Internationale Tag der digitalen Barrierefreiheit. Wir wollen nicht länger warten und befassen uns mit dem Thema daher schon am 15. Mai 2024. In unserem Digitalisierungsforum bringen wir Ihnen die digitale Barrierefreiheit näher. Sie bekommen einen Einblick in das Thema und nützliche Hinweise für die Umsetzung. Angefangen bei der Einführung in den Themenbereich erklären wir Ihnen, wer von digitaler Barrierefreiheit profitiert. Hierüber sprechen wir auch mit der Hessischen Landesbeauftragten für barrierefreie IT und digitale Teilhabe, Frau Prof. Dr. Meyer zu Bexten. Wie Sie Barrierefreiheit praktisch in Ihren Arbeitsalltag integrieren können und wie wir, als ekom21, Sie dabei unterstützen, zeigen wir Ihnen anhand unserer Produkte esina21, cms21 und civento.

Accessibility shouldn’t be confined to project timelines or checkpoints. It’s a crucial consideration in user research, design, content strategy, development, and ongoing improvements — applicable not just to a single project but as a continuous practice across all your initiatives. We’ll share insights into our work with organisations such as RNIB and Mind to provide practical advice from our development team and strategic perspectives on user-centred design to equip you with the knowledge and motivation to champion accessibility within your charity. Our special guest, Quarina from RNIB, will highlight the critical accessibility considerations and achievements for their service users, offering invaluable perspectives on creating inclusive digital environments. We’ll cover: • Integrating accessibility into user research, design, and development phases. • Key learnings and achievements in making digital services more accessible. • Insights from Quarina of RNIB and our Torchbox experts on creating inclusive digital environments. • Tips on user-centred design and development practices for enhancing accessibility. • A Q&A with our speakers to discuss accessibility challenges and strategies. This webinar will show how embracing accessibility at every stage enhances user experience for all, fostering digital environments that are inclusive, resilient, and user-friendly.

Web archives are digital repositories that use autonomous web crawlers to collect various types of web content, such as web pages, videos, pictures, books, and social media data, for long-term preservation. Web archives such as the Wayback Machine store ‘snapshots’ of web pages at different time intervals, enabling users to access prior versions of web pages that may have been altered or even removed from the corresponding websites. Therefore, web archives serve as an important resource for researchers, analysts, and the general public for a variety of tasks, including fact-checking, searching historical information, tracking public opinion changes, tracking the spread of false narratives, understanding patterns of misinformation propagation, and ultimately promoting information accuracy and credibility on the internet. Given the importance of web archives, it is essential that they are equally accessible to people who are blind. However, little is known about how accessible and usable these web archives are for blind people. In this presentation, we will shed light on this topic by discussing the accessibility and usability of some of the popular web archives. Join Zoom Meeting https://odu.zoom.us/j/93921610804

To celebrate GAAD, A11yTalks is hosting a bonus pre-GAAD live virtual talk on Wednesday, May 15th with Blake Bertuccelli. Blake will talk about how Open Source means nothing to the larger accessibility community. That is a problem. Proprietary solutions limit access to vital accessibility tools. This presentation outlines existing Open Source accessibility solutions while asking the question “Why aren’t there more Open Source a11y tools?” The presentation is meant to be both a survey of existing solutions and a call to action for new Open Source solutions. Web Accessibility stagnates without more Open Source A11y tools.

Join us on May 15, 2024 from 1.00 till 2.30 CEST, for a special pre-event to Global Accessibility Awareness Day, titled “Ensuring an Inclusive & Accessible Green Transition.” This online event will explore strategies to make the green transition inclusive and accessible for everyone. Achieving sustainability requires that environmental initiatives are available to everyone, particularly those often marginalized. Our webinar will not only tackle significant environmental issues but also emphasize the importance of including diverse groups like indigenous communities and people with disabilities in these discussions. The event aims to promote an inclusive dialogue, amplifying diverse voices to ensure comprehensive participation in environmental matters. We will showcase practical, accessible solutions from projects like GreenSCENT, ClearClimate, GreenTeens, Accting, Rethink Action, and I-CHANGE, which aims, through practical actions and tools, to promote an inclusive and accessible green transition for all. Don’t miss this opportunity to join a movement toward an environmentally aware and accessible world!

Whether your organization currently does business in the European Union (EU), or plans on tapping into the EU market, you’ll need to comply with the European Accessibility Act (EAA). And with enforcement beginning in June 2025, the clock is ticking. Join Level Access’s Chief Accessibility Officer Jon Avila and Vice President of Legal Affairs Shira Grossman as they discuss the EAA’s application to digital experiences and outline a path to compliance.

Portuguese: Um dos principais problemas relacionados a falta de acessibilidade em sites está relacionado com a escrita de HTML ruim e em muitos casos a responsabilidade não é apenas do time de desenvolvimento, pois há questões relacionadas a arquitetura de informação e também a especificação e documentação criadas para que desenvolvedores atuem corretamente na produção final. Nesta aula você irá entender que HTML é absolutamente tudo sobre Arquitetura de Informação e praticamente nada sobre codificação e também compreenderá os relacionamentos de todas as etapas com a acessibilidade das informações. English: One of the main problems related to the lack of accessibility on websites is related to poor HTML writing and in many cases, the responsibility does not just lie with the development team, as there are issues related to information architecture and also the specification and documentation created so that developers act correctly in final production. In this class, you will understand that HTML is absolutely everything about Information Architecture and practically nothing about coding and you will also understand the relationships of all stages with the accessibility of information.

Nigerian youths celebrate 2024 Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Imagine a society in which individuals of all abilities may effortlessly explore and relish the immense marvels of the digital world. That is the idea behind the annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), a day set aside to spread the message that everyone should have access to the digital world. To what extent is digital technology accessible to Nigeria’s 35 million+ disabled people? How can they live better lives through digital inclusion? conforming to the goal of SDGs to leave no one behind.

Explore the realm of accessibility this Global Accessibility Awareness Day with interactive and educational games. Please fill https://forms.gle/vAVdphm6k4PJrLdAA by May 16th to receive the instructions to play the game.