Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) 2017

Join us on Thursday, May 18 2017 and mark the sixth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) access/inclusion and people with different disabilities.

• Agenda, map, location details on a11yYOW Website:
http://a11yyow.ca/

• More info about GAAD http://www.globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/.

Adrian Chan, professor and Chair READ Initiative (Research, Education, Accessibility, and Design) at Carleton University will share with us a new program at Carleton.

We will have the opportunity to listen to the Associate Deputy Minister, Yazmine Laroche, tell us about the ongoing government efforts in terms of accessibility and inclusion of persons with disabilities.

David MacDonald, president of CanAdapt and is in his 15th year with the WCAG Working group, will tell us about the upcoming updates to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Special thanks to READ Initiative and Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)

5:45 – Doors open - pizza, drinks and networking

6:20 – Open Remarks

6:30 – Carleton University announcement by Adrian Chan ( bio (http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/chan/index.php) )

7:00 – Associate Deputy Minister Yazmine Laroche ( bio (http://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/about-apropos/people-personnes/adm-smd-eng.html) )

7:40 – Break

8:00 – About a11yQC by Nadine Tremblay (via web conferencing from sister event in Quebec City #a11yQC)

8:10 – Random Hacks of Kindness (https://rhok.ca/) by Brett Tackaberry

8:20 – The new WCAG 2.1 by David MacDonald ( bio (http://www.davidmacd.com/#about) )

9:00 – Event ends