Events & Activities

Noam Platt, Chapter Leader New Orleans invites you to join the Makers Making Change community from around the world to learn about assistive design projects and discussions innovations in AT design. The guest speaker for this session is Zee Kesler from Microsoft’s Inclusive Tech Lab.

Join us on Wednesday, May 18, from 7 pm – 8:30 pm ET for Diversability Unplugged: Disability & Digital Accessibility, in partnership with Fable. We will have another powerhouse panel discussion centered around lived experience, advocacy and careers available in the accessibility space. Our panel includes: Dona Sarkar, Director of Tech, Microsoft Mark Mcguire, Digital Accessibility Consultant Sheri Byrne-Haber, Senior Staff, Accessibility Architect Samuel Proulx, Accessibility Evang., Fable

This free workshop will show how people can achieve more with the built-in accessibility tools and features in Microsoft technologies. You’ll get some tips to help you set up & navigate accessibility settings within Window & Microsoft 365, and learn to create accessible content in:

• Microsoft 365
• Word
• Outlook
• Utilize Microsoft Accessibility tools

More details: https://access2accessibility.com/events. To contact Access 2 Accessibility: Info@Access2Accessibility.com

Join us for the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) celebration. Session: The Recipe for Making Accessible Widgets! by Rabab Gomaa انضم إلينا للاحتفال باليوم العالمي للتوعية بإمكانية الوصول الجلسة : وصفة صنع ودجتس ! رباب جمعة

Blackboard (now part of Anthology) is bringing back Fix Your Content Day, a 24-hour global competition committed to creating accessible and more inclusive digital learning content. The objective of the day is to mobilize instructors and staff to fix as many digital course files as possible through Blackboard Ally. Learn more about Ally: https://www.blackboard.com/teaching-learning/accessibility-universal-design/blackboard-ally-lms

On May 19th we will launch our free ScreenReader training app. The app has been developed together with visually impaired and blind people. The app teaches all VoiceOver and TalkBack gestures, plus navigation and text editing actions. The app will become available at noon through our website https://screenreader.app.

A virtual wall of curated videos that build the awareness about GAAD from various sources.

The launch of Season 3 of Digital Accessibility: The People Behind the Progress. Four new recorded episodes will be released on GAAD, featuring:

• Glen Walker, TIAA, Principal Accessibility Architect
• Jen Devins, Google, Head Accessibility UX
• Zack Klein, iSoftStone, Software Test Engineer II
• Joanne Lastort, Booz Allen Hamilton, Digital Accessibility Specialist

On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, #GAAD22 we are launching a competition open to all, a #JingleOlympics to create a few seconds of sound that will be our new sonic logo. This will identify us and greet the billions with vision impairment, 2.2 billion at least say @WHO. We’ve got so many talented young people in our movement, on off the sports fields. But this is open to all! Information will be at www.specialolympics.com/soniclogo/ from May 19th, 22.

If you have a lot of online meetings, it is likely that someone in that meeting will have a disability, whether you are aware of it or not. To create a more inclusive and accessible meeting experience, Jerry Smith, part of the #MicrosoftTeams team shares seven things you can do right now in Microsoft Teams like turning on your video, using live captioning, and using alt-text in images in meeting chat. Watch now to discover all seven tips.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91ddtUyhS5k