The fifth annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is on May 19, 2016. The purpose of GAAD is to get people talking, thinking and learning about digital accessibility and users with different disabilities.
Learn about how GAAD started in response to a single blog Jennison Asuncion, an accessibility professional from Toronto.
Check out the Global Accessibility Awareness Day website if you would like to learn more about GAAD.
Need to get your team knowledgeable on digital accessibility? Knowbility’s John Slatin AccessU is a great opportunity to learn from and engage with world class leaders in the IT Accessibility profession. Practical Classes range from beginner to advanced and cover a diverse set of digital accessibility topics for administrators, policy makers, developers, designers, usability specialists, or jacks of all trades.
Class topics are targeted to a diverse set of jobs–strategic topics for management, to the nuts and bolts for developers and designers. The classes start at the basics (Accessibility 101) but if you’re already well versed in accessibility, AccessU offers advanced topics such as Mobile accessibility.
Location: St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX
Date: May 9-11, 2016
More Information: Access U Information and Registration
The 31st Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference held in San Diego is one of the premier accessibility conferences on the calendar. A must attend if you are interested in accessibility.
The hashtag for this year’s conference was #CSUN16. To give you a flavor of the conference we have curated some of the best tweets below. You can grab a couple of exceptional presentations and resources as well as learn about a few of the best accounts to add to your personal learning network for digital accessibility.
Read more Tweets from CSUN 2016 – International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference