Global Accessibility Awareness Day: events in your city

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Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:06pm

Thursday 15 May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), a day dedicated to raising the profile of digital accessibility and people with different disabilities.

For those looking to find out more information about accessibility, or participate in accessibility initiatives, here’s a list of events happening around the country to celebrate GAAD.

The Media Access Australia and Access iQ teams will be attending A11y Bytes Sydney. You can hear organiser and Head of Accessibility at PWC Stamford Interactive Sarah Pulis discuss the event on the Media Access News podcast. Dr Scott Hollier 

Sydney – A11y Bytes

Presentations include:

  • Katja Forbes — Input! Input! 
  • Caronne Carruthers-Taylor — Inclusive Design is a fad
  • Kim Chatterjee — Design, innovation and accessibility
  • Pieter den Heten— The carrot and the stick: lessons from The Netherlands presented by 
  • Ben Buchanan — ARIA: Selling the Drama
  • Sean Curtis — ARIA: Implementing the Drama 

Details: 6.00pm, Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex St, Sydney. Register for A11Y Bytes Sydney on Eventbrite.

Melbourne – A11y Bytes

Presentations include:

  • Gian Wild — Ten common failures: the really serious accessibility problems
  • Bronwyn Lapham —Accessible video: not so hard as you might think
  • Dan Craddock — it’s not you, it's me. Breaking up with PDFs for more accessible, usable and sustainable experiences.
  • Lisa Herrod —TBC
  • Andrew Normand — Hamburger with The Lot 
  • Matt Sawkill — Creating a responsive and accessible! government website

Details: 6.00pm, RMIT Swanston Academic Building, Building 80, 445 Swanston Street, Melbourne. Register for A11y Bytes Melbourne on Eventbrite.

You can read an interview with Dan Haddock ahead of his presentation on Access iQ.

Brisbane - Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meetup

The Brisbane Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meetup will host an evening of short lightning talks. Talks will cover a range of topics and be of five to 10 minutes in length. 

Details: 6.00pm, Brisbane CDB (location shown only to registered attendees). You can register for the event and join the group on its Meetup page

Perth - Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meetup

The Perth Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meetup will be gathering to support GAAD. Vivienne Conway and Media Access Australia’s Dr Scott Hollier will give an informal talk about Perth winning hosting rights to W4A and also about the recent conference in Seoul.

Details: 6:00pm, Bonsai Restaurant and Cafe Lounge, 30/36 Roe Street, Northbridge

Online

For those not able to make the events you can still participate online. On Twitter, you can search for GAAD information using the #GAAD hashtag, or follow @gbla11yday. There’s also Inclusive Design 24 (hashtag #ID24), a 24-Hour Online Community Event Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

For our readers outside Australia, a list of GAAD events happening around the world is also available online at the Global Accessibility Awareness Day Events page.


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