Events & Activities

👋 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!

Join us at a11y together on 20th May for a friendly, informal session focused on transforming organisational perspectives through inclusion, accessible communication, and vulnerability management. Together, we will explore how inclusive design shows up in the real world, from accessible content strategy to removing barriers using the social model of disability. Expect practical, evidence-based interventions, real-world lessons from lived experience, and ideas you can take away and start using straight away to support diverse needs and preferences. The session will keep the usual relaxed a11y together format, with a few short talks followed by an open panel conversation. It is a space to ask questions, share experiences, and learn from others across disability inclusion. Whether you are just getting started or already deep into accessibility, you will leave with useful insights, fresh perspectives, and new connections.

To celebrate the eve of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2026, we are back with another engaging panel event, this time at a fantastic new venue: The Channel 4 HQ in Leeds! We will be joined by our panel of accessibility experts: Ashley Peacock, Senior User Researcher @ Insights; Jessica Chambers, Accessibility Evangelist @ Silktide; Barry Hill, Experienced accessibility coach

All of our panellists will be sharing their lived experiences of disabilities.

Agenda:

18:00 – Welcome

18:30 – Panel Discussion pt.1.

19:10 – Food/Drink break

19:30 – Panel Discussion pt.2.

20:15 – Close and networking

Access needs/Dietary Requirements If you have any access needs or dietary requirements, please reach out to us.

Singapore is digitising fast. But who gets left behind when accessibility is an afterthought? Most digital products are designed for an imaginary average user. But when we design with people with disabilities – not just for them – something unexpected happens: the products get better for everyone. To mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day, design agency 55 Minutes is bringing together people with lived experience of disability alongside accessibility experts and advocates from Singapore’s public and private sectors for an honest, practical conversation about what inclusive design actually looks like, and how to make it happen inside your organisation. This isn’t another awareness talk. It’s a call to action. The goal is that you’ll leave with the conviction and the information to move digital accessibility from a “nice-to-have” to a genuine business priority. Panelists Shalom Lim – Co-founder of Rebirth Ensemble, artist and advocate living with muscular dystrophy Amanda Yip – Co-founder of Rebirth Ensemble, accessible fine arts practitioner who has lived with vision impairment since birth Tan Keng Hwee – Software engineer at GovTech, with hands-on experience tackling accessibility challenges with people with disabilities Fidelis Oruche – Head of Capital Markets and Digital Assets at HSBC. HSBC is actively working towards becoming the world’s most digitally accessible bank.

Neurodiversität mitdenken: AuD(H)S-Personas für Open-Source-Projekte

Anlässlich des Global Accessibility Awareness Day laden wir zu einem Workshop rund um digitale Barrierefreiheit, Neurodiversität und inklusive Software-Entwicklung ein. Digitale Barrierefreiheit bedeutet mehr als Kontraste, Screenreader-Support und Tastaturbedienung. Auch kognitive Zugänglichkeit, klare Strukturen und soziale Sicherheit entscheiden darüber, wer an Software und Open Source Projekten wirklich teilhaben kann. Menschen mit AuD(H)S – also Personen im Autismus- und/oder ADHS-Spektrum – werden dabei häufig übersehen. Dabei beeinflussen Reizverarbeitung, Aufmerksamkeit, Informationsstruktur, Kommunikation und Community-Dynamiken maßgeblich, wie zugänglich Software bzw. Open-Source-Projekte und -Communities tatsächlich sind.

Themen im Workshop:

Im Workshop werden Personas für ein AuD(H)S-reflektiertes Design vorgestellt und gemeinsam besprochen, wie diese in der Praxis eingesetzt werden können. Dieses Mal geht es jedoch nicht um klassische Usability-Fragen, sondern auch um Reflexion der eigenen Rollen/Funktionen im Software-Entwicklungsprozess:

• Welche Hürden entstehen für neurodivergente Menschen?
• Welche impliziten Erwartungen prägen unsere Communities?
• Und wie können wir Entwicklungsprozesse bewusster und zugänglicher gestalten?

Der Workshop richtet sich an Entwickler:innen, Designer:innen, Maintainer:innen, Community-Verantwortliche und alle, die Open Source und digitale Produkte inklusiver gestalten möchten – unabhängig von Vorkenntnissen im Bereich Accessibility oder Neurodiversität.

Eckdaten:

Was: Neurodiversität mitdenken: AuD(H)S-Personas für Open-Source-Projekte

Wann: Do. 21.05.2026, 12:00 – 13:30 Uhr

Wo: Online via BBB: https://bbb5.fk4.hs-bremen.de/b/ram-bbr-ebj-dfp

“Unlocking the Digital Frontier” – Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2026

A virtual event commemorating Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), focusing on digital accessibility and inclusion for persons with disabilities. The event will highlights the importance of creating accessible digital platforms and promotes CID’s digital inclusion programs in Nigeria.

Date: May 21, 2026

Time: 11:30 AM WAT

Platform: Zoom

In today’s environment, the companies that innovate fastest are the ones that win. This  Global Accessibility Awareness Day, join Disability:IN and global business leaders to explore how organizations are using accessibility to build solutions that work better for more people. Learn how leading companies are embedding accessibility into product development, customer experience, technology, and innovation strategies, and why this approach is becoming essential to competitiveness.

EMEA & APAC | 6:00 AM ET/ 11:00 AM BST / 7:00 PM JST

LATAM & NORAM | 1:00 PM ET/ 6:00 PM BST /2:00 PM BRT

We’re inviting everyone to join a collaborative Accessibility Service Safari by paying attention to their environment throughout the day and documenting all the opportunities they find to increase accessibility, be it on their commute, at home, in the office or elsewhere. By doing so they’ll be more aware of accessibility issues. By the end we’ll collect all submissions and publicly divulge a report and send it to the entities responsible for making the necessary changes.

On the day of the event, each hour, a post will be published about how development quality affects web accessibility. The post will be a blog, a video, an infographic, etc. With diverse formats we will show how accessibility starts in early development stages and less barriers would be produced if we work and understand our (tech) tools deeply. Together for a barrier-free digital Austria. Call for Papers are still open. Submittion language is German.

CalPERS is commemorating Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) with a CalPERS intranet takeover. On GAAD, our intranet will be transformed to highlight accessibility resources, share stories, and provide interactive learning opportunities for all employees. This is the 15th annual GAAD – a day dedicated to fostering conversations, expanding our knowledge, and promoting digital access and inclusion. Remember, accessibility is not optional – it’s our responsibility to ensure our members, our stakeholders, and fellow team members can fully participate in the digital world.