Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is celebrated on the third Thursday of May each year. In 2024, GAAD falls on May 16th. According to accessibility.day, “The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access / inclusion and people with different disabilities.”
May 12 is the International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases (CIND). These conditions include Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), and Fibromyalgia. This day coincides with the birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing. Although ME/CFS was not defined in her lifetime, many historians believe she developed an ME/CFS-like illness. She became chronically ill and was often bedridden later in life.
Do you know about Workplace in Action? It’s a worldwide initiative focused on assisting corporations in establishing sustainable and holistic diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. From training, to assessments and surveys, to certification and maturity analysis – this robust and comprehensive program is like nothing I’ve ever experienced.
And the best part? I’m one of their executive trainers! I’m thrilled to be the team’s expert on accessibility and disability inclusion.
Recently, I was invited to host a webinar on Accessibility & Disability Inclusive Workplaces. We packed so much great information into one short hour, and I wanted to share this recap to provide some additional resources.
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Look what I found on Amazon! It’s the #A11yBook – the eBook version this time! The Kindle edition has passed final formatting checks and you can get it now.
Disability Book Week, held on April 23-29 each year, invites individuals to become more inclusive with what they read by reading a book that features a main character with a disability.
I was done with my planned series on Writing for Accessibility… or so I thought! We covered writing ALT text, writing for readability, and writing captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions. I wanted to add one more “writing” topic to the series: accessible emoji use!
One of the best feelings during a presentation is having so many questions to answer that we run out of time! At the ATD Rochester ROCTalent Summit, we had so many great questions about Making Work Accessible that I couldn’t answer them all. So, as promised, here is the follow up Making Work Accessible Q&A, with the answers to all of your burning questions!
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What a day! Amazing sessions packed with actionable information at the Rochester Chapter Association for Talent Development ROCTalent Summit 2024!
Thank you SO much to everyone who attended my session on Tuesday! This was such a fun conference with a great selection of sessions. I met so many new people and got to spread the word about Making Work Accessible and Inclusive.
Are you a GoodReads user? Now you can rate and review the #A11yBook! I’d love to hear what you think. Is it helpful to you? What would you like to see in the second edition?
Head over to GoodReads to share your thoughts on Making Online Learning Accessible!
Welcome to this deeper-dive series of blog posts! I’ll be digging in to some accessibility topics that relate to my presentations on accessibility, with the goal of providing you with information and resources to make your workplace more accessible. The third post in this series is on Writing Captions, Transcripts, and Audio Descriptions. (Did you miss the others on ALT Text and Readability?)
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