Events & Activities

Please join CIBC as we celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day with renowned accessibility innovator and changemaker Luke Anderson of the StopGap Foundation. Learn through Luke’s incredible story about the importance of inclusive design, an accessibility mindset and community building. Along the way, you’ll get to hear some of the exciting ways that CIBC is committed to making banking more inclusive for our clients with disabilities and their families, and get to share your own perspectives

GAAD Student Bridge This global meet-up celebrates the Global #Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD by bringing together students across continents to share thoughts and bridge ideas about increasing accessibility awareness and build the #inclusion culture everywhere It is a 1-hour online event that will include some fun activities and time for those who would like to share thoughts The event is organised jointly by North Idaho College and the American University of Beirut

We are sure that most of us product folks are generally aware of the importance of accessibility in products as well as other aspects of life. But are we really aware? Have we ever spoken to people with disabilities about how they use our products – and have we acted upon it? We’ve decided to make this event part of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day activities and raise our awareness by bringing you Sheri Byrne-Haber and Christian Ohrens.

Brett Strydom has been developing software for 20 years. His experience includes helping to build scalable software capable of handling millions of transactions, building actuarial models and developing strong Agile teams. Special interests include Mathematics and artificial intelligence. In this talk he will be sharing some of my experiences as a blind developer and he will share some tips and guidelines should a blind person join your team.

Accessibility isn’t just for GAAD, it’s for life, but as we have for the past few years, UXPA UK is joining in the celebrations. We’re always glad when it’s GAAD! Speakers Jamie Knight and Danny Weissberg will give two fascinating talks on the potential and power that digital accessibility can provide in terms of inclusive research and design for the Metaverse and Inclusive AI in a Voice-First World. The event is free and open to all, live English captions will be provided by a stenographer.

This month it’s all about Accessibility. Cocoaheads falls on the same day as Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD).

🧰 Introducing Reveal’s all-new Accessibility Workspace – Chris Kolbu & Tony Arnold

⌨️ No Touch(screen) Required: Voice & Keyboard Accessibility – Bas Broek

🆙 Next Level iOS Accessibility – Rob Whitaker

🤔 Thinking about how we think: Cognitive Accessibility on iOS – Sommer Panage

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed to YouTube Live. The speakers will all be remote. Doors are opening at 6pm and quiz starts at 6:30pm.

Since 2010, a11yMTL has been dedicated to raising awareness of the needs and benefits of digital accessibility in Montreal. For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a11yMTL will present an online talk in French.

The prototyping team PLAYERS has co-created products and services for the visually impaired with Mizuno, JR East, the Blind Soccer Association, and others. This event, held in collaboration with GAAD Japan, will be a frank talk about the design research conducted by PLAYERS and the “white cane that makes you want to go out with it” jointly planned with Mizuno, from the viewpoints of visually impaired people, supporters, and companies.

In this webinar, we are going to discuss some of the most common web accessibility issues. Lots of real examples will be presented along with some ways to remediate the issues.

Eu estarei fazendo uma performance de dança com audiodescrição, além da mostra do videoperformance realizado no Museo Tattile Statale Omero, na Itália e na Pinacoteca Benedicto Calixto, no Brasil com o recurso de audiodescrição e legenda para surdos e ensurdecidos. Eles fazem parte do meu projeto de doutorado em arte, inclusão e acessibilidade. No dia teremos tocando Vilson Zattera, professor e músico com deficiência visual e do músico e pesquisador Uirá Kuhlmann.