Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)
Join us in remotely celebrating GAAD - Global Accessibility Awareness Day - this 21 May 2020.
Accessibility Round-tables and Discussions, Tips and Resources, stories, and challenges.
Below are Accessibility tips and resources, round-table discussions, live and recorded stories of accessibility, and challenges you can do from home to remotely participate in this year's GAAD!
Why Accessibility Matters.
Live Sessions:
Live Round-Table Accessibility Discussion: 11:30AM-12:30PM MST.
Join our live WebEx Round-table to share stories or ask questions.
Kevin Stiffler and Marisha Manfre's Live WebEx Round-table:
Time: 11:30am-12:30pm, 5/21/2020
Link: GAAD Accessibility Round-Table WebEx
The Second A in GAAD: 1PM MST
Please join Lucia Greco for The Second A in GAAD this Thursday, May 21st at 1Pm MST. I will be speaking with my favorite civil rights lawyer (Lainey Feingold) for Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) about the history of accessibility and how those of us in the community of accessibility work on awareness.
Lucy Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
The Second A in GAAD recording link.
Resources
10 Tips to Ensure an Accessible Online Student Experience
Facilitators: Marisha Manfre, Accessibility Services; Kevin Stiffler, Instructional Technology
Video Presentation:
Resources
- Best Practices for Accessible Course Design [Word Document]
Audio Descriptors
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What are Audio Descriptors (AD)?
Audio Descriptors are an audio track that auditorily describes the key visual components of a video.
Resource:
Want to test it out yourself? On Netflix, under Audio/Subtitles, you can turn on English Audio Descriptors.
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Kurzweil - literacy program
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Stacey Roe - RRCC Accessibility Deaf and Hard of Hearing coordinator and interpreter
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Bre'una Keeton - RRCC Student Recreation Center
Videos worth watching to raise accessibility awareness
- How I use technology as a blind person
- Face Masks for the deaf: Covid-19 creates communication challenge for the hearing impaired
- Zach Anner & the Quest for the Rainbow Bagel
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More GAAD videos: GAAD YouTube playlist.
Stories
Challenges
