Today May 19 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day #gaad #a11y #a11ynyc
Today Thursday, May 19 2016 is the fifth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). Events are happening all over the world including NYC. The purpose of GAAD is to get people talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with different disabilities. The target audience of GAAD is the design, development, usability, and related communities who build, shape, fund and influence technology and its use. While people may be interested in the topic of making technology accessible and usable by persons with disabilities, the reality is that they often do not know how or where to start. Awareness comes first.
- Events: http://www.globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/events.html
- Hashtag #gaad: twitter | facebook
- Read the blog post by Joe Devon that inspired GAAD.
vint cerf are discussing.
vint cerf 11:54 am on 05/19/2016 Permalink |
we are discovering that people with so-called disabilities also have interesting strengths we call “coolabilities” and these are often well-suited to particular kinds of work. Accentuate the positive!
joly 1:56 am on 05/20/2016 Permalink |
Indeed, and one good example of this is the Open Steno Project, which is recruiting blind people as stenographers. It turns out that lifelong listening to screen readers gives one a remarkable capacity to process language. The blind leading the deaf one might say. See below: