Events & Activities

Join Tria Federal for a half-day Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) event featuring a series of sessions that explore the evolving role of accessibility across design, development, and emerging AI-driven experiences. This program moves beyond compliance to examine how teams can create truly usable, inclusive digital services while also preparing for the shift toward agentic, AI-enabled systems. Through a mix of presentations and live demos, attendees will see how accessibility can be embedded earlier in the lifecycle and operationalized through modern tooling and automation. Sessions are designed to stand alone, so participants are welcome to join for individual topics or stay for the full experience.

Agenda: GAAD @ Tria

12:00 PM – 12:15 PM EST Welcome to GAAD 2026

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM EST Accessible Experiences by Design

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST From Pages to Capabilities: Reimagining Accessibility for the Agentic Web

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM EST Shifting Left on Accessibility with AI: Inside Tria’s Compliance Agent

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST Turning Accessibility Findings into Fixes with Tria’s Compliance Center

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM EST Closing / Thank You

Want to avoid up to €1m in EAA fines?

​The European Accessibility Act is in enforcement. Actually, we’re coming up on its year anniversary this June. So what? you may say. Well, enterprise buyers are now requiring WCAG compliance the same way they require SOC 2. And in Ireland, non-compliance carries criminal liability – up to €60k in fines and 18 months in prison. And no-one wants that.

​Most software teams know they need to act. Very few know what it actually takes.

​On May 21st this Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), DevAlly is hosting a Lunch and Learn at Dogpatch Labs with the people doing this work IRL. We promise no slides. No pitching or sales talk. Just a practical conversation – and of course an open floor for product questions.

​That’s what “built in, not bolted on” actually means in practice. Accessibility that gets retrofitted at the end of a product cycle costs ten times more to fix and takes ten times longer to get right. This session is about the how — how to use DevAlly to catch issues early in your build, give your engineering team a prioritised remediation backlog, and ship products that enterprise buyers can actually say yes to. ​

Who’s in the hotseat?

• ​Cian Dowling Accessibility Lead @ Synthesia ​

Synthesia is one of Europe’s most recognised AI video platforms, recently valued at $4bn+. Cian will speak from inside a live compliance journey – the accessibility issues found, a hard enterprise deadline, and what the remediation actually involved. ​

• Bruno Walraven Head of Product @ DevAlly ​

What we see across product teams getting accessibility right and how compliance gets built into product development without halting delivery. ​

• MC: Aisling Conlon-Mattu Head of Marketing @ DevAlly

​This is for you if you are:

• ​A Head of Product, CTO, or engineering lead at a B2B SaaS company ​
• Building in Fintech, HR Tech, EdTech, or any sector selling to enterprise ​
• Facing a VPAT request, an EAA compliance question, or an enterprise procurement checklist
• A founder who wants to get this right before a customer, a regulator, or a law firm makes you ​

What’s the run of show? ​

12:30 – Arrival & Lunch

​13:00 – Welcome ​

13:05 – Conversation ​

13:40 – Open floor ​

14:00 – Close & Networking ​

👾 Who we are ​

DevAlly is an AI powered digital accessibility compliance platform for product teams who ship quickly. Recently selected by 500 Global (backers of Intercom, Canva, Reddit, and Stripe) as part of its Ireland cohort scaling into the US. While our CEO is in San Francisco this week, we are marking GAAD at our European HQ with a conversation that is actually worth your time. ​

Spaces are limited. Request your seat → https://luma.com/tiubpw4a ​

Hosted by DevAlly at Dogpatch Labs, Dublin

📅 LinkedIn Live — Mexty Masterclass (60 min)

Too often, training is “digitalized” by simply putting a PowerPoint online. Let’s do the opposite: during this live session, we will build 3 interactive learning activities, ready to be reused immediately.

🎯 Goal: leave with a simple method you can apply starting tomorrow.

Agenda (60 minutes, live on LinkedIn)

1. PPT → Interactive Quiz (15 min) Turn a PowerPoint into a quiz with feedback (plus a quick scenario-based variant).
2. PDF → Microlearning + Quiz (15 min) Break down a dense PDF into short learning sequences with checkpoints to reinforce key ideas.
3. Compliance Intro Mini-Game (20 min) Create a short, engaging intro activity (5–7 minutes) to make mandatory compliance training more engaging (score/badge + feedback).

🎁 Bonus for participants: Free templates 10 credits to start your Mexty trial

➡️ Register for the LinkedIn event (link below) and activate the reminder.

And tell me in the comments: do you usually start from a PPT or a PDF when creating training?

通常は認定試験対策として提供されている「デジタルアクセシビリティアドバイザー認定試験対策」の動画全6本を5月21日から順次一般公開いたします。障害のある方や高齢の方、そして多様な環境にいる人々を支える技術と知識を、ぜひこの機会にみんなで一緒に学びましょう。 Starting May 21, we’ll be releasing all six of our Digital Accessibility Advisor Certification prep videos to everyone! Usually reserved for exam prep, these videos are a great way for us to learn together how to support people with disabilities, seniors, and those in various situations through technology. Let’s dive in and learn together!

Region: North America

Date: Thursday, May 21

Time: 1:00-3:00 pm (EDT), 10:00 am–12:00 pm (PDT)

In celebration of the 15th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), Deque is offering a FREE two-hour training event. Who should attend? Our fundamentals training is great for those who are just starting to learn about digital accessibility. This training is intended for all audiences, including policymakers, management, content creators, developers, designers, testers, and everything in between. Training agenda: What is digital accessibility, and why is it important? What are the most important North American digital accessibility laws and guidelines? How do people with disabilities navigate the web? How can you champion accessibility to make a difference in your organization today? How do I get started with accessibility?

Region: Europe

Date: Thursday, May 21

Time: 13:00 (BST), 14:00 (CET)

In celebration of the 15th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), Deque is offering a FREE two-hour training event. Who should attend? Our fundamentals training is great for those who are just starting to learn about digital accessibility. This training is intended for all audiences, including policymakers, management, content creators, developers, designers, testers, and everything in between. Training agenda: What is digital accessibility, and why is it important? What are the most important European digital accessibility laws and guidelines? How do people with disabilities navigate the web? How can you champion accessibility to make a difference in your organization today? How do I get started with accessibility?

The event is organized by the Comission for Diversity and Inclusion of INESC TEC and aims to foster awareness of accessibility barriers and inclusive design principles by providing hands-on experiences and opportunities for reflection and discussion. Participants will be invited to explore how inaccessible environments, tools, interfaces and communication practices can unintentionally exclude people with diverse needs and abilities.

Agenda*:

*You can take part in any activity, even if you cannot attend the full event.

01:00 pm – Hands-on, Experiential Workstations: Participants will explore interactive workstations demonstrating common accessibility barriers (20-30 min each workstation).

03:30 pm – Welcome and Introduction: Opening remarks by the Commission for Diversity and Inclusion.

03:40 pm – Roundtable Discussion: A moderated conversation with experts in accessibility, inclusive design, assistive technologies and digital inclusion.

04:30 pm – Closing and refreshments: An informal moment to exchange reflections while exploring examples of accessible and inaccessible event design.

We look forward to welcoming you and sharing this important moment of awareness and learning. The event will be held in English.

Join Anthro-Tech for a Global Accessibility Awareness Day webinar on Thursday, May 21, from 10AM-11AM PST featuring leaders from the City of Seattle, ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Anthro-Tech. Learn how accessibility is reshaping software procurement—from how agencies evaluate vendors through VPATs and ACRs to how product teams demonstrate credible progress, build trust, and work effectively with government partners.

Featuring:

• Suzanne Boyd, Founder and CEO, Anthro-Tech (Moderator)
• Kim Dowden, Senior Project Manager, Citywide Digital Accessibility, City of Seattle
• Mary Ann (MJ) Jawili, Senior Principal Accessibility Product Manager, ServiceNow
• Jacqui Tolisano, Senior Director, Product Accessibility, Salesforce
• Sruti Vijaykumar, Digital Accessibility Specialist, Anthro-Tech

Session Takeaways

• What government teams look for in VPATs and ACRs
• Vendor red flags that reduce trust during procurement
• How product teams communicate accessibility progress and roadmaps clearly
• What ADA Title II requirements mean for government and product teams
• How vendors and government agencies work together after procurement
• Live Q&A: Bring your questions for our panelists

Whether you create VPATs and ACRs or review them during procurement, you’ll leave with a clearer understanding of what builds confidence, what raises concerns, and what creates productive vendor–government partnerships. Register on Anthro-Tech’s Website: https://anthro-tech.com/ideas-and-insights/webinar-accessibility-procurement-and-trust

The event aims to foster awareness of accessibility barriers and inclusive design principles by providing hands-on experiences and opportunities for reflection and discussion. Participants will be invited to explore how inaccessible environments, tools, interfaces and communication practices can unintentionally exclude people with diverse needs and abilities.

Agenda:

01:00 pm – Hands-on, Experiential Workstations: Participants will explore interactive workstations demonstrating common accessibility barriers (20-30 min each workstation).

03:30 pm – Welcome and Introduction: Opening remarks by the Commission for Diversity and Inclusion.

03:40 pm – Roundtable Discussion: A moderated conversation with experts in accessibility, inclusive design, assistive technologies and digital inclusion.

04:30 pm – Closing and refreshments: An informal moment to exchange reflections while exploring examples of accessible and inaccessible event design.

A dive into interactive web maps and a screen reader user’s experience. The State of Minnesota’s Office of Accessibility will host a conversation between a screen reader user and a map maker to discuss key accessibility questions including: Are some types of web maps easier to use than others? What are common barriers for screen reader users when using web maps? How can map designers/creators make maps more accessible? Are there certain “cheat codes” that assistive technology (AT) users can use when navigating web maps? Is it ok for web map creators to create custom navigation for their maps?