Events & Activities

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List of Events & Activities

The following are events and activities the community has created for this year to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

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Accesibilidad web y su importancia en la experiencia de la persona usuaria (Virtual)

18 May 2023 | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM America/Santiago (Chile)

Accesibilidad web y su importancia en la experiencia de la persona usuaria Súmate a nuestro webinar y aportemos juntos a promover y generar diálogo en torno a la Accesibilidad Web desde Latinoamérica. Únete a este evento para celebrar el Día Mundial para Promover la Concienciación sobre la Accesibilidad Digital. Tendrás la oportunidad de conocer de primera fuente la experiencia de una persona usuaria con discapacidad frente a diversos productos digitales, los que navegará en vivo para irnos contando sobre las barreras a las que se enfrenta y los aspectos que favorecen su interacción. ¿Cuándo? El jueves 18 de mayo de 2023. Acceso gratuito. Acerca de este evento El webinar Accesibilidad web y su importancia en la experiencia de las personas usuarias, organizado por BBK2Brains, es parte de los diferentes eventos que se realizarán a nivel mundial en torno al Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), celebrado cada año en el mes de mayo. No lo olvides, la cita es el jueves 18 de mayo, a las: 17:00 horas de Colombia, México y Perú 18:00 horas de Chile 19:00 horas de Argentina La accesibilidad es responsabilidad de todos y todas. No te quedes fuera de este importante evento para toda Latinoamérica.

Learn more about Accesibilidad web y su importancia en la experiencia de la persona usuaria by BBK+2Brains

eCommerce Accessibility – Through the eyes of a blind user (Virtual)

18 May 2023 | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM Europe/Athens (Global)

Accessibility is important in the digital landscape not only from an ethical but also from a business perspective. Millions of users with disabilities demand to have access to digital platforms and services and they have also money to spend as consumers. So, what is going on with eCommerce accessibility? We celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day with a free webinar on this unique topic. Join us!

Learn more about eCommerce Accessibility – Through the eyes of a blind user by theUXProdigy

ustwo x ADPList: Accessibility is everybody’s business (In Person)

18 May 2023 | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM Europe/London (London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

​🎉🇬🇧 Join ustwo and ADPList in London on Global Accessibility Awareness Day to discuss why and how to build accessible digital products for every user. We’ll kick things off with empathy exercises, followed by a panel discussion with speakers from ustwo’s Product, Design, and Tech teams, and American Express. ​This will be a fun, practical evening, so we’ll break into roundtables and discuss tangible ways to design accessible digital products and future-proof your career. 🚀 🚦 Meetup Agenda 🚦 ​18:00 – 18:30: Networking, pizza, and drinks ​18:30 – 19:05: Empathy exercises and panel discussion with Louise Windo (Strategy Principal, ustwo), Alasdair Blackwell (Tech Lead, ustwo), Dan Elsworth (Head of Product, ustwo), Dominic Fisher (Design Principal, ustwo), and Maeva Chandler (UX Designer, American Express) ​19:05 – 20:05: Roundtable discussion led by the ustwo team 20:05 – 20:35: Group discussion and shareback ​20:35 – 21:00: More pizza and drinks ​👐 This event is exclusive to ADP List mentors. Address to the venue will be provided a week before the event to registered guests.

Learn more about ustwo x ADPList: Accessibility is everybody’s business by ustwo

A11y – Accessibility – Dostępność (In Person)

18 May 2023 | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM Europe/Warsaw (Gdańsk, Pomorskie, Poland)

A11y – Accessibility – Dostępność w Gdańskiej Galerii Zmysłów. Spójrz na świat swoimi zmysłami. Dostrzegaj niezauważalne, poznaj zmysłowość ciemności, zapachu i dźwięku, aby zrozumieć ograniczenia osób niewidomych. Zapraszamy na zwiedzanie wystawy stałej w ciemności. Ponadto, dwa równoległe warsztaty prowadzone przez personel Gdańskiej Galerii Zmysłów: – dostępności aplikacji i stron w systemach IOS i Android w obsłudze bezwzrokowej, – praktyczne aspekty dostępności stron internetowych, dokumentów L-Braille oraz przykładowe programy mówione.

Learn more about A11y – Accessibility – Dostępność by Objectivity

Accessible Media Internship Presentation (In Person)

18 May 2023 | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM America/New_York (Rowley, MA, United States of America)

Presentation of my work with NECC on accessible media and of the importance of digital accessibility. Event for Clark families and friends.

Learn more about Accessible Media Internship Presentation by Clarkschool

A11y Bytes Melbourne (In Person)

18 May 2023 | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM Australia/Sydney (Australia)

A11y Bytes is running on Global Accessibility Awareness Day for the 11th time, and is being held in person for the first time in 4 years. Join us in Melbourne for a series of lightning talks to talk all things digital accessibility and inclusion. You don’t have to be an accessibility aficionado to attend. This event is about us all talking, thinking and learning about digital accessibility and inclusion together. Take part in A11y Bytes and connect, be inspired and have some fun as we talk, learn, grow and change the world.

Learn more about A11y Bytes Melbourne by A11y Bytes

A11y Bytes Sydney (In Person)

18 May 2023 | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM Australia/Sydney (Australia)

A11y Bytes is running on Global Accessibility Awareness Day for the 11th time, and is being held in person for the first time in 4 years. Join us in Sydney for a series of lightning talks to talk all things digital accessibility and inclusion. You don’t have to be an accessibility aficionado to attend. This event is about us all talking, thinking and learning about digital accessibility and inclusion together. Take part in A11y Bytes and connect, be inspired and have some fun as we talk, learn, grow and change the world.

Learn more about A11y Bytes Sydney by A11y Bytes

Como hacer words accesibles (Virtual)

18 May 2023 | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM (Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina)

Aprende como hacer words accesibles

Learn more about Como hacer words accesibles by DALAT

Accessibility + UX at Vanguard (Virtual)

18 May 2023 | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM America/New_York (United States of America)

PhillyCHI is excited to host a virtual event for Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on Thursday, May 18th! There will also be opportunities for networking and group discussions around accessibility. Oxana Loseva, Sr. UX Researcher at Vanguard, will talk about her efforts including accessibility within the division she works in at Vanguard. She will talk about what efforts and commitments Vanguard has made to accessibility and inclusion and will share her first hand experience working with people with disabilities. She will also share what she’s learned working with folks with disabilities. About the speaker: Oxana is a Sr. UX Researcher at Vanguard focusing some of her efforts at work on accessibility and inclusion. She has built a panel of individuals with disabilities and conducts regular research with them. She has a background in Service Design and Design Research and mixes these methods in her work. In her spare time, Oxana takes her dog Pepper hiking around the Philadelphia area and goes on trips to discover local coffee shops.

Learn more about Accessibility + UX at Vanguard by PhillyCHI

ZOOM: Obelažavanje dana globalne svesti o pristupačnosti (Virtual)

18 May 2023 | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM Europe/Sarajevo (Teslić, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Događaj: Obelažavanje dana globalne svesti o pristupačnosti / Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023 Svake godine, treći četvrtak u maju se obeležava kao Dan globalne svesti o pristupačnosti. Ideja o Danu globalne svesti o pristupačnosti počela je jednim blog postom, koji je napisao Džo Devon, web developer sa sedištem u Los Anđelesu. Taj blog post je poslužio kao inspiracija da se ustanovi Dan globalne svesti o pristupačnosti. Nakon deset godina, osnovana je GAAD Fondacija, to je neprofitna organizacija čija je: – Misija da promoviše kulturu tehnologije i razvoj digitalnih proizvoda, kako bi uključila pristupačnost kao suštinski zahtev. – – Vizija da pristupačnost bude ugrađena u životni ciklus razvoja tehnoloških izuma i digitalnih proizvoda. – Svrha da svi pričaju, razmišljaju i uče o digitalnoj pristupačnosti i inkluziji, jer u svetu živi više od milijardu osoba sa invaliditetom. Tokom ovog online događaja razgovaramo: 1. O veštačkoj inteligenciji (AI) kroz konkretne primjere kako je koristiti, (Željko Bajić, Goran Macanović i Gradimir Kragić); 2. O “SightCity”, najvećoj međunarodnoj izložbi pomagala za slepe i slabovide osobe koja je održana u Frankfurtu, (Lazar Bulatović i drugi koji su bili na izložbi);

Learn more about ZOOM: Obelažavanje dana globalne svesti o pristupačnosti by Portal “SliKom”

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