Global Accessibility Awareness Day
The Global Accessibility Awareness Day (Gaad) (German: Global Day of Action for digital accessibility) is a day of action , which refers to digital access and inclusion focused for more than a billion people with disabilities or impairments. It is set annually for the third Thursday in May. The next GAAD is on May 21, 2020.
The motto of the official GAAD website is: "The aim of GAAD is to get everyone to talk, think and learn about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and people with different disabilities".
The target audience of the GAAD are the people who are responsible for the conception, the development and the user friendliness. While people may be interested in making technology accessible and usable for people with disabilities, the reality is that they often don't know how or where to start. Awareness comes first. "
Global Accessibility Awareness Day started in May 2012. It was inspired by a blog post by the Los Angeles-based web developer Joe Devon . Devon partnered with Jennison Asuncion, an accessibility expert based in Toronto, to create GAAD.
In 2018, in addition to a large number of virtual GAAD campaigns, public events were held in no fewer than nineteen countries on six continents.
In addition to North America and India, European universities, research institutions and information processing companies are now discovering the GAAD for themselves in order to present existing solutions or to identify missing help in dialogue.
Web links
- Website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ May 15, 2014 - Global Accessibility Awareness Day | Design for everyone in digital libraries. Retrieved June 4, 2019 .
- ^ Nicole Gallucci: Everything you need to know about Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Retrieved June 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Accessibility websites and apps are the focus of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The Accessibility Initiative (A11y). Retrieved June 4, 2019 .