Events & Activities

In industrialized countries between 50% and 70% of people with disabilities are unemployed. Children with disabilities are much less likely to complete their primary education. These are just a few key facts about disability and inclusion and why our industry is failing people with disabilities. So how can we make our industry more inclusive, more equitable and more accessible? We want to show you different workshop concepts from our Responsible Tech Playbook (https://www.thoughtworks.com/about-us/social-change/responsible-tech-playbook) and more that could lead you to better ideas. Test them out in our workshop playground and see how old problems could be solved with new thinking. Agenda: 19:00 – Start 19:30 – Introduction + Select your Workshop group 20:00 – Workshops (30mins) 20:30 – Workshop presentations 21:15 – Wrap Up & Networking

In this Twitter Utah Education chat, which takes place every Wednesday during the school year, educators from Utah will discuss benefits of creating digital content that is inclusive and accessible by answering the questions and completing the accessibility challenges posted by the Twitter handle @DanyMacEdu and using the hashtag #UTEdChat.

Fix Your Content Day is a 24-hour contest committed to creating accessible and more inclusive digital learning content across classrooms and institutions globally. Join us on May 18 to make as many fixes as possible to course files and improve their accessibility using Anthology Ally (previously Blackboard Ally). Register now: https://www.anthology.com/fycd

This event would being contributors to Google Maps together to assess the improvements and how to make maps more helpful for PwDs and everyone.

In the spirit of our motto “Design Bitcoin for Everyone”, we will spend this day raising awareness on common accessibility issues in bitcoin applications, with a focus on hands-on finding, reporting, and fixing problems. Everyone is invited to join us, see the event page for details (will be updated as the day comes closer).

Celebrate GAAD with BarrierBreak and work towards making the digital world more accessible. Join us in our #LabelYourControls Campaign! Labels play an important role in making user interface controls more accessible. Throughout the day, we will be sharing valuable tips on how designers, developers, & content creators can create labels that are truly accessible. Follow #LabelYourControls Stay Tuned:  https://twitter.com/Barrierbreak https://www.linkedin.com/company/barrierbreak-technologies

At ADCET we are celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day (Thursday, May 18, 2023) with a series of three challenges for universities and Vocational Education and Training providers within Australia to experience just a few accessibility barriers and features in everyday work and life. We would love to hear your stories and experiences with the challenges, so please share them with us via email or on our social media by tagging ADCET and using the hashtag #GAAD. View the 3 challenges on our website www.adcet.edu.au

Join ADCET as we announce this years winners of the Accessibility in Action Awards. These awards are held in recognition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) and recognise passion, innovation, good practice and leadership in accessibility. Our awards are held annually in line with GAAD which occurs every 18 May. The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than one billion people with disabilities/impairments. The webinar is free to attend and it will be Auslan interpreted and live captioned.

The A11Y Collective is the e-learning platform for anyone who wants to learn more about web accessibility. We offer IAAP approved courses on accessibility basics, accessible design, code and content and we offer masterclasses and advanced coding courses. On Global Accessibility Awareness Day we want to give everyone the chance to enroll in one of our courses by letting you decide the price yourself.

We have our monthly Day of Learning, which is the 3rd Thursday of the month. So to coincide with GAAD, we are making this Day of Learning Accessibility-themed!

We have four sessions: 

1. Joe Devon, the Story of GAAD. Joe will share the origins of GAAD and how it has grown into such a global, energizing event inspiring accessibility awareness. We are excited to host Joe for this internal talk! 
2. Keyboard Navigation, Shortcuts, and Accessibility: Do you know the difference between keyboard navigation and shortcuts? Keyboard interactivity on a website can greatly expedite a user’s efficiency–or so we think. This session hosted members of our very own Accessibility Design and Engineering teams at GitHub will talk about the difference between keyboard navigation versus shortcuts, how to avoid common pitfalls when creating shortcuts, and how to create scalable solutions that benefit all GitHub users.
3. Neurocats, the Community of Belonging (CoB) aims to give neurodivergent Hubbers a voice at GitHub. Owen Niblock will discuss some ways GitHub employees can build websites with Neurodivergent folk in mind and then we’ll have a round-table chat about that subject with Neurocats and Accessibility team members.
4. Making your README Accessible
   We will have a 30-minute guided session for GitHub employees to show how to use tools like browser extensions or GitHub Actions to check their markdown content like README files for accessibility. We will build in time for people to test and fix their README, and help make GitHub a more inclusive and accessible platform!