Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is celebrated this week! Let’s get talking, learning, and thinking about digital accessibility and inclusion. GAAD always falls on the third Thursday of May each year.
Take the challenge! Engage yourself in one of these articles, activities, or resources for at least 15 – 30 minutes this week. Accessibility is a journey where we gain understanding and skills along the way. Will you take the next couple of steps on your journey? There is much to see and explore on this road. Push back the curtain and find some ways to make an even bigger impact.
Explore one item below and be a part of the change towards Accessibility@MC!
Start your journey here
Not sure where to begin? Start your journey on the road towards accessibility with these topics
- What is digital accessibility?
- State of Accessibility for the web – one million home pages evaluated for accessibility
- Common disabilities and impairments
- How inclusive design and development impacts lives
Further down the road towards accessibility? Explore one of the following topics.
How can I get involved or learn more
Take the No Mouse Challenge!
Incorporate a digital accessibility best practice into you work
- Use headings (not just bolding text)
- Descriptive links
- Mark table headers
- Add alt text to images – How to add in MS Office
- Fix Captioning in your YouTube videos
- Explore one of the following resources
Teaching and Learning
- Accessible Education Resources
- Innovate: Creating Accessible Learning Environments
- Creating accessible documents
Technology
- Increase your Zoom usability and accessibility – Accessibility@MC post <link>
- Blackboard Accessibility
- Built in accessibility for devices
- Creating accessible documents
- Social media accessibility
- Mac Accessibility Shortcuts
- Shortcuts for Windows
- PC v. Mac shortcut comparison
- iPhone, iPad, and iPod Accessibility
- Google Accessibility
Activities and Presentations
- Publications: talks, interviews and presentations
- Publications: Peer reviewed Journal articles
- Virtual events on various topics including Blackboard, digital accessibility, discussion panels, mobile technology, and more
Reflect on one of the following questions
- How does using plain language increase accessibility?
- Why would using skip links (a link that bypasses navigation of a website and goes to the main content) benefit users?
- How can web content that is responsive or mobile friendly effect accessibility?
- How has your definition of accessibility changed over time?
- How do you know your course, website, documents, or multimedia is accessible?
- How do you incorporate accessibility from the beginning when creating something, developing programming, or hosting an event?
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