Events & Activities

As Google Maps Volunteers, Local Guides are celebrating their 10th anniversary contributing data (photos, reviews, videos and rates) on Google Maps. We have dedicated the month of May 2025 to review our activities towards accessibility and inclusion. This will help us make more helpful and useful contributions for billions of users worldwide. Join us!

Join Us in Celebrating GAAD 2025 with a Free Accessibility Learning Opportunity! At eLaHub, we launched our very first Taster module for the DALC (Designing Accessible Learning Content) Programme during GAAD 2023 to support the mission of getting everyone talking, thinking, and learning about digital inclusion and disability awareness. Thanks to the incredible response — over 500 participants and invaluable feedback from learning practitioners and disabled learners — we saw the powerful potential of this resource to drive meaningful change in how learning content is designed. That’s why we’ve evolved our original Taster into the DALC Showcase module — a free module available to everyone, with sample lessons from the full programme to get you started with creating more accessible and inclusive learning content. And this year to celebrate GAAD 2025, for a limited time until 30th June, complete the Showcase module and receive an exclusive eLaHub “Committed to Accessible and Inclusive Learning Content” digital badge. Sign up and complete the DALC showcase module here – https://showcase-elahub.talentlms.com/

Celebrate GAAD 2025 by Joining the eLa1000 — Benchmark Accessibility, Drive Change, and Plant a Tree! Help shape the future of accessible learning by taking part in eLa1000 — a pioneering initiative designed to benchmark accessibility across the Learning & Development (L&D) industry. Our goal? Empower 1,000 organisations to assess, improve, and lead the way in accessible, inclusive learning design. What’s involved? Just 10–15 minutes of your time to complete our 60-question Accessibility Assessment — designed to identify key strengths and opportunities in your organisation’s approach to accessibility. What you’ll get: A FREE customised Accessibility Assessment Report with tailored feedback and practical guidance, including resources to support accessible, inclusive learning strategy. And for every completed assessment, we’ll plant a tree. Take part this GAAD and help create a more inclusive learning future for millions of people with disabilities and access needs. Start your eLa1000 Accessibility Assessment today – https://ela1000assessment.elahub.net/

Throughout GAAD week, we will be sharing on the Web for All Movement’s social media profiles (Instagram, Facebook and Linkedin) testimonials from some people with disabilities in our network, telling what they do on the web when they find accessible websites and applications, for example. Developing digital channels with accessibility can no longer be seen as a favor or as an unnecessary investment. This thinking is outdated and urgently needs to be updated. Digital accessibility is provided for in the Brazilian Inclusion Law (LBI – 13.146), more specifically in article 63. There is also a very recent ABNT standard – NBR 17225 – with all the detailed recommendations used globally to make websites accessible. The campaign theme chosen for this year is “We are here: accessibility is not a favor!” This concept was chosen because, despite all the barriers, people with disabilities are present on the web every day. They are working, studying, creating, consuming. It is not about the future: it is about presence. And ensuring digital accessibility is not a favor, it is the minimum. It is recognizing a basic right. In addition to showing these people how to generate more connection with society, we will share educational content on how to develop accessible digital projects. We will also teach how to identify accessibility flaws on websites and how to correct them.

How people can participate:
a) Reposting our posts to raise awareness in your network.
b) Tagging people and companies in the comments of our posts and encouraging your contacts to reflect on this urgent and necessary topic.
c) Sharing this issue with the leadership and colleagues of the company where you work and suggesting that they start a review of accessibility on the organization’s internal and external digital channels.
d) Making your own posts more accessible by describing the images, captioning videos and ensuring adequate contrast in the images you post.
e) Taking advantage of the commemorative date to create themed corporate events to raise awareness among the internal public of the company where you work.

Indonesia is one of the biggest countries in the world, but digital accessibility isn’t yet part of everyday practice. One reason is low awareness. Another is the lack of resources in our native language, Bahasa Indonesia. That’s why PanduanWCAG.com exists with one core principle: making accessibility accessible. It’s a plain-language guide to help local practitioners understand WCAG and connect with global standards. We’re launching it on Global Accessibility Awareness Day to introduce two things: 1. Digital accessibility is real 2. And the guide to get started is ready Note: PanduanWCAG.com is not an official translation of WCAG.

Nella giornata dell’accessibilità il progetto europeo AINCP pubblica un opuscolo illustrato e divertente, gratuito per tutti da scaricare, che si rivolge a tutti i ragazzi di età 5 – 15 anni, e in particolare i ragazzi con una disabilità di paralisi cerebrale. Il “Booklet AINCP” contiene anche dei giochi e si potrà colorare.

Con la guida di ANDI tutti potranno comprendere in modo facile:

• Che cos’è la Paralisi Cerebrale
• Che cosa fa il Progetto AINCP
• Perché la Ricerca Scientifica è importante

Il progetto AINCP è orgoglioso di questa iniziativa, realizzata seguendo le linee guida di accessibilità, che per la prima volta spiega in modo facile un tema che riguarda 17 milioni di persone nel mondo e su cui la ricerca scientifica, compreso il nostro progetto AINCP, sta svolgendo un lavoro molto importante. Ci è voluto un grande impegno per realizzarlo! Il merito va a tutto il team del progetto europeo AINCP, a FTS srl, braccio operativo della Fondazione FightTheStroke.org che ha ideato e coordinato il lavoro, e a Housatonic, che ha creato le illustrazioni e il personaggio ANDI. L’opuscolo si potrà facilmente stampare in bianco e nero, formato A4, a partire dal giorno 15 maggio 2025 dalla pagina https://www.aincp.eu/kids Stampatelo, divertitevi e fateci sapere se vi piace! And stay tuned, the AINCP Booklet will be soon available in English too.

Celebrate GAAD: Access & Unitarian Universalism National Webinar Hybrid Event Free, but pre-registration is required. Click here now: tinyurl.com/access-uu-webinar-2025

Moderators: Patricia Ryder & David Oaks, Accessibility Task Force Co-Chairs, Unitarian Universalist Church in Eugene (UUCE)

Drop into this webinar at any time. We’ll spotlight accessibility successes, efforts and challenges at UU Churches nationally. You’re invited to take part in this national conversation, especially about digital accessibility (such as online access for people with disabilities). Just let us know during the webinar, or even better email us now to pre-schedule comments. Folk Singer David Rogers will help us enjoy our celebration! All welcome from anywhere, any faith. Be seen or watch anonymously. Your participation is encouraged!

This is a hybrid event: The Eugene community is invited to personally view in the UUCE Chapel “Studio.”

Seating starts at 1 pm pt.

1685 W 13th Ave., Eugene.

First come, first served. Enjoy free refreshments!

Hosted by Accessibility Task Force (ATF) for Unitarian Universalist Church in Eugene. Email to ATF and we’ll add you to our Access News list: access@uueugene.org

ASL interpreted.

Creemos firmemente que la tecnología debe estar al servicio de todas las personas, sin excepciones, y que la accesibilidad debe ser un pilar transversal en cualquier iniciativa. Es por ello que el próximo día jueves 15 de mayo, Día Mundial de la Concienciación sobre la Accesibilidad, desde Fundación hiberus junto al área de Accesibilidad de hiberus organizamos una jornada para visibilizar la importancia de la accesibilidad digital. No te pierdas la mesa redonda en la que generaremos un espacio de diálogo para compartir buenas prácticas y retos de la accesibilidad para todas las personas.

Counting down to GAAD 2025! In the Netherlands, we’ve launched a similar initiative in Q4 2024: Day of Digital Accessibility (in Dutch: Dag van de Digitale Toegankelijkheid, DvdDT) on Saturday, June 28, 2025. This date was chosen with purpose: it marks the official start of the European Accessibility Act (EAA). As you likely know, the EAA legally requires companies and organizations to make their digital products and services accessible — for everyone, including people with disabilities. But: the EAA isn’t just for policymakers or IT professionals. It’s not about how, what en why. It’s about everyone’s right — as a citizen, consumer, or customer — to access digital information, services, shops, apps, and more. That’s why raising awareness among the general public is so important. Dag van de Digitale Toegankelijkheid exists to show people — from citizens to businesses — that this is about you. From June 28 onwards, you have a right to a digitally accessible world. And only together can we make that happen. DvdDT is not a one-off marketing stunt. We’ve got years of work ahead of us. Because this is about structural change. Not just more attention, but more action. Not just for people with disabilities — but for everyone. We want to encourage a bottom-up movement, starting with the awareness that everyone has the right to digital accessibility. As awareness grows and demand increases, we hope this will motivate every web developer, designer, and content creator to put this topic firmly on the agenda and integrate it into their workflows and procedures. Day of Digital Accessibility is, just like the platform Start DUIT, part of the DUIT Foundation — a non-profit organization with ANBI status (Public Benefit Organization). DUIT stands for Digitale Uitdaging / Uitvoering Inclusie en Toeagankelijkheid (Digital Challenge / Implementation of Inclusion and Accessibility).