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Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is a consciousness-raising
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focusing on digital access and
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for the more than one billion people alive today who live with disabilities or impairments. It is marked annually on the third Thursday of May. In 2018, in addition to a number of virtual events marking GAAD, there were events open to the public in at least nineteen countries on six continents. According to the Global Accessibility Awareness Day website, "The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) access or inclusion and people with different disabilities." Local Global Accessibility Awareness Day events sometimes showcase how people with
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use the web and digital products using assistive technologies, or assist people creating technology products in taking into consideration the needs of certain disabilities. Global Accessibility Awareness Day launched in May 2012. It was inspired by a blog post from November 2011 by Los Angeles–based web developer Joe Devon. Devon worked with Jennison Asuncion, an accessibility professional from Toronto, to co-found GAAD.


Events

Examples of local Global Accessibility Awareness Day events include: * Since 2012, th
Los Angeles Accessibility and Inclusive Design Group
, led by Joseph O'Connor has organized a GAAD event. * Minnesota IT Services has encouraged employees to perform their jobs for 15 minutes without using a mouse. * In 2015, a one-day conference was hosted in Ottawa by OpenConcept Consulting, to celebrate GAAD. * In 2016, a one-day conference was hosted by Carleton University and organized b
A11yYOW
, Ottawa's accessibility Meetup. * In 2017,
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released a series of videos and organized a concert as part of a week-long series of events marking Global Accessibility Awareness Day. * In 2017, the
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offered a website accessibility testing clinic. * In 2017, a GAAD event in Ottawa featured speakers from
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, the Canadian government and the Ottawa area. * In 2018, there were a series of events planned in Hyderabad and Bangalore, India. * In 2018, an evening event was hosted in Ottawa by OpenConcept Consulting and we had a live chat with participants in Accessibility Twin Cities, who were also celebrating GAAD. * In 2020, the
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in the United Kingdom ran a day of online-only events to raise awareness of digital accessibility.


See also

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Computer accessibility Computer accessibility refers to the accessibility of a computer system to all people, regardless of disability type or severity of impairment. The term ''accessibility'' is most often used in reference to specialized hardware or software, or a co ...
* Design for All *
Design for All (in ICT) Design for All in the context of information and communications technology (ICT) is the conscious and systematic effort to proactively apply principles, methods and tools to promote universal design in computer-related technologies, including Int ...
* Fix the Web *
Hackathon A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest, datathon or codefest; a portmanteau of '' hacking'' and ''marathon'') is an event where people engage in rapid and collaborative engineering over a relatively short period of time such as 24 or 48 h ...
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Knowbility Knowbility is an American non-governmental organization based in Austin, Texas, working to support the independence and empowerment of people with disabilities by promoting the use and improving the availability of accessible information technolo ...
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Inclusion (value and practice) Social exclusion or social marginalisation is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society. It is a term that has been used widely in Europe and was first used in France in the late 20th century. In the EU context, the Euro ...
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Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 In 1998, the U.S. Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act to require federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. Section 508 was enacted to eliminate barriers in information techn ...
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Universal design Universal design is the design of buildings, products or environments to make them accessible to people, regardless of age, disability, or other factors. It emerged as a rights-based, anti-discrimination measure, which seeks to create design ...
* Universal usability *
Web accessibility Web accessibility, or eAccessibility,European CommissionCommunication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: eAccessibility, EC(2005)1095 pu ...


References

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External links


Global Accessibility Awareness Day website

GAAD Foundation
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