Celebrate the 11th Global Accessibility Awareness Day
This Thursday, 19 May 2022, the 11th annual Global Accessibility
Awareness Day [https://accessibility.day/] (GAAD) brings together
events to shine a light on digital access and inclusion for people
with disabilities.

According to the GAAD Foundation [https://gaad.foundation/], over 1
billion people have disabilities or impairments, including visual,
auditory, physical and cognitive impairments. Digital accessibility
and inclusive design can provide them equal opportunity to participate
in the digital society. Small changes in design can help widen the
audience for a given digital service immensely, benefiting both the
user and provider. 

For example, people with a visual impairment need alternative text
descriptions for meaningful images and use the keyboard instead of a
mouse to interact. People with hearing impairments need captioning for
videos and visual indicators instead of audio cues. People with motor
impairments may need alternative keyboards or other adaptive hardware
to help them type and navigate on their devices. Other things such as
an uncluttered screen, consistent navigation and the use of plain
language can increase the accessibility for people – changes that
benefit all users, not just those with disabilities.

To get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access
and inclusion, there are events around the globe that you can attend.
The full list of events [https://accessibility.day/events/] is
available here or you can also submit your own event
[https://accessibility.day/submit-your-event].

For more upcoming events check our event calendar
[https://data.europa.eu/en/news-events/events].

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Publication Date/Time
2022-05-18T08:00:00+00:00
Attend events or participate in activities to celebrate and create
awareness