Events & Activities

Come visit with the our Benefits Team, as they will be joining us to help celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day GAAD. The team will provide resources on Wellthy and Lyra provided to Hilton Team Members.

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.

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

This topic explores the strategies and initiatives that could and should be implemented by the hospitality sector to make spaces welcoming to visitors who are hard of hearing or deaf. It looks at the difficulties these individuals face using hotel amenities and services, and it addresses creative solutions to these difficulties, including staff training, assistive technology, and possibly changing the architecture to make the place more accessible and offer a smooth experience for guests.

Join us for GAAD BINGO, an interactive way to learn more about our participating GAAD representatives and the services they offer. Each representative will provide three to four facts about their organization. To participate, simply visit the representative table and get a stamp for each fact you match with the correct representative. If you get BINGO, you’ll have a chance to win one of three prizes. So come and learn more about our guests!

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.

Creating accessible documents is essential to ensuring that everyone, including people with disabilities, can effectively engage with your content. This hands on workshop will teach you how to remediate a document using the Microsoft Accessibility Checker, share best practices, and hear what a screen reader experience is when a document is inaccessible.

Come visit with the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, they will be joining us to help celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day GAAD, there will be an activity tables for hands on activities focusing on hidden and apparent disabilities.

professional networking workshop for: Leaders, academics and practitioners in HE Representatives of HE sector bodies Policy makers and influencers An afternoon of thought-provoking lightning talks, lots of discussion and an opportunity to share, think and network with people who are passionate about seizing the moment to ensure that our use of AI and accessible technology creates a better world for disabled people. Pre registry required via JISC Uk https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jisc/imperial-accessibility-networking-workshop