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Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day everyone. The third edition of Personal Power: Getting The Most from iOS as a Totally Blind User is ready for your enjoyment free to all. If you want to use an iPhone without looking at it other than to show it your face, this is how it's done. michaelfeir.blogspot.com/2025/… #GAAD

The Third Edition of Personal Power

Hello everyone. Global Accessibility Awareness Day has always been one of hopefulness for me. I always tend to learn about one or more initi...
michaelfeir.blogspot.com
#GAAD

In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), we’re excited to invite you to share how JAWS has made a meaningful difference in your life. GAAD is a global movement that celebrates digital access and inclusion—and we want to shine a spotlight on the impact JAWS has had in your journey.

Your story can inspire others and raise awareness about the power of accessible technology: surveymonkey.com/r/insertjclub

#GAAD #JAWS

GAAD logo; Letters GAAD surrounded by a circle and keyboard image.

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#GAAD #jaws

Google: "The best features of <companyName> Mail are only available on your phone and tablet with the official Gmail app." Sorry #Google, but it's your fault if the features are available *only* in the app, and everyone working from desktop systems are excluded. Nothing to be proud of here, to be honest. #GAAD #Accessibility
#Accessibility #google #GAAD

Also totally forgot to talk about this yesterday.
As a part of global accessibility awareness day, we put out a new update for the Be My Eyes app for Windows that is completely rebuild from the ground up. Along with giving us a better base to build amazing new features for desktop in the near future, this new app also fixes a lot of the accessibility issues that people have reported over the last 1.5 or so years.
In addition Chat History is now also available on Desktop, so you can start a conversation from mobile and continue it on desktop (and vice versa).

#a11y #bemyeyes #gaad #globalaccessibilityawarenessday
#blind #bme #tech
#disability #assistivetech

#a11y #blind #tech #Disability #GAAD #bemyeyes #assistivetech #globalaccessibilityawarenessday #bme

I meant to re-post this for #GAAD!

This article by @dadederk is a great reminder of many truths about doing #accessibility work: focus on systems, not short term goals, be persistent and resilient, and work w/ a network/community however you can!

smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/f…


Fostering An Accessibility Culture — Smashing Magazine

While there’s no definitive playbook for building an accessibility culture, Dani shares lessons from his experience in shaping it through habits rather than mandates.
Smashing Magazine
#Accessibility #GAAD @Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats

#Accessibility #AI #GAAD #inclusion #vibecoding

Today is #GAAD, "Global Accessibility Awareness Day", but as a person with a #disability, I'd like to remind everyone that conversation should always be paired with action. Remember that #accessibility matters EVERY single day. Thank you. ✨
#Accessibility #Disability #GAAD

This Global Accessibility Awareness Day we'd like to shout out to our translators! NVDA has been translated into over 55 languages to provide access to technology for blind and vision impaired people around the world. Recently we spoke with Harun in Türkiye, who shared how access, in his own language, has helped him: nvaccess.org/post/harun-fast-l…

#GAAD #Accessibility #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Localization #Awareness #Translation

"One of my favourite aspects of [NVDA] was that its entire interface was localised... I was surprised by its small size and very fast operation. Isn't this a wonderful thing? Take it anywhere and just connect". - Harun Türkiye (Black text on white with NV Access logo top and purple sunburst designs in the background)

NV Access | Harun, Fast & Local in Türkiye

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #translation #GAAD #nvda #localization #awareness

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day we are launching a new settings page that lists all of your media without alt text, so you can easily update any missing alt text in a single, easy to remember place.

You can also enable the Require Media Descriptions setting in Settings -> Media.

#accessibility #gaad

#Accessibility #GAAD

On this Global Accessibility Awareness Day, ACB’s Manager of Membership Engagement Cindy Hollis showcases the built-in accessibility features on her Samsung washing machine! Learn more about #GAAD at accessibility.day/.

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Thursday, May 15, 2025 marks the 14th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). Get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion and people with different disabilities.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day
#GAAD

#GAAD #WPA11yDay

#GAAD @Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

#Accessibility #GAAD

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and Michael Babcock, ACB’s Member Services Administrative Assistant, has a special message about accessibility to share. Learn more about #GAAD at accessibility.day/.

Home - GAAD

Thursday, May 15, 2025 marks the 14th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). Get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion and people with different disabilities.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day
#GAAD

#a11y #GAAD #digitalaccessibility

Be My Eyes and Innosearch Join Forces to Bring Seamless, AI-Powered eCommerce to Blind and Low Vision Users

‍Be My Eyes announced today – on Global Accessibility Awareness Day – a strategic alliance with Innosearch.ai, an AI-powered eCommerce portal. The alliance will provide super-accessible online shopping to the users of the Be My Eyes app,, without the clutter and noise present of many other websites.

Be My Eyes users will benefit from an exclusive 2% cashback credit into their Innosearch account for use against future purchases made through the Be My Eyes app. The service is currently available in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia, with more regions to follow.

The alliance represents a significant step and new direction for Be My Eyes, as it lays the foundations of the Be My Eyes app and the underlying technology platform becoming the de-facto access-tech of choice for people who are blind or have low vision, wherever they are – at home, at work or at play.

bemyeyes.com/news/be-my-eyes-t…
#globalaccessibilityawearnessday
#gaad #a11y #bemyeyes #innosearchai #innosearch #blind #shopping #disability #assistivetech


Be My Eyes to Provide In-App Accessible Shopping for Blind and Low Vision Users with InnoSearch AI - Be My Eyes

Be My Eyes and Innosearch Team Up to Bring Seamless, AI-Powered eCommerce to Blind and Low Vision Users
andyb (Be My Eyes)
#a11y #blind #Disability #GAAD #shopping #bemyeyes #assistivetech #innosearchai #innosearch #globalaccessibilityawearnessday

Si vous êtes un professionnel non-voyant et vous voulez déclarer ou gérer vos impôts, vous ne pouvez pas accéder à votre espace pro sur impots.gouv.fr parce qu'à chaque connexion il y a un #CAPTCHA sans alternative accessible. Et des images sont si brouillées que même les outils #IA n'y peuvent rien. Donc, il vous reste attendre quelqu'un qui pourra vous aider. Oui, à vous connecter sur votre espace pro sur un site gouvernemental. #Accessibilité #Accessibility #GAAD
#Accessibility #captcha #GAAD #accessibilité #ia

As we approach global accessibility awareness day, I want to reflect on how AI tools have changed my life. I can look in great detail at any picture that I or anyone else takes. I can laugh at the same silly memes as my sided friends. I can learn in an instant about any topic or concept I can fathom. Thanks to ChatGPT, I was able to load a completely inaccessible PDF into the app and just ask questions about it. I didn’t have to deal with OCR or any other conversion, I was able to get the information I needed in about three minutes or less. I know people have a lot of concerns about AI, particularly when it comes to hallucinations and the impact of AI on the environment. But you know what? I’ve been using screen readers for over 30 years and they still fail me at times, so I will put up with some potential hallucinations. as for the environmental impacts, we were given this earth and its resources to use in a responsible and ethical manner. I can think of nothing more responsible or ethical than improving Accessibility for people with disabilities. #GAAD
#GAAD

Today is Global #accessibility awareness day and I think I speak for a lot of people in the community when I say I'm tired. Particularly over the last few months, the overall climate towards accessibility and #diversity hasn't been super welcoming and while I have a good support network that can remind me that I am, in fact, human and worth existing, many do not. If you receive a request to make something #accessible, from anyone, keep in mind that may very well be the 5th, 10th or even 100th attempt this person has made today at screaming into the void hoping to be seen as a person rather than a potential drain on resources. Rather tna big companies showing off #AI gizmos that mean we've offloaded a problem we didn't want to deal with onto a fallible set of algorithms, maybe #gaad should be about being aware of how ridiculous it is that accessibility professionals and consumers need to fight to even be seen as human these days, because make no mistake, we do.
#Accessibility #accessible #AI #diversity #GAAD

Am Welttag der Barrierefreiheit wollen wir, über digitalen Zugang/Inklusion und Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Behinderungen sprechen, nachdenken und lernen. Durch den Zugang zu digitalen Produktionsmitteln hat die Do-It-Blind Gruppe selbst herstellbare Beschriftungen für Menschen mit Blindheit oder Seheineschränkung entwickelt. oskars.org/posts/gaad-2025/ #make #blind #inklusion #gaad
Auf einem roten, rechteckigen Masten mit den Fahrtzeiten der Linie 46 befindet sich ein schwarzes Schild auf dem in weißer Profilschrift und Braille „Linie 46, Ottakring, Richtung Joachimsthalerplatz“ steht. Dahinter befindet sich ein Blindenleitsystem, eine Mauer und ein weißes Gebäude mit großen Schaufenstern.

Welttag der Barrierefreiheit

Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)
Oskar
#blind #GAAD #inklusion #make

The GitHub Copilot Accessibility video series launches today in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) which is Thursday, May 15th 🎉

Each day this week, we’re spotlighting a new video featuring a person with lived experience using GitHub Copilot to solve real-world challenges — both personal and professional. These stories show how AI can reduce barriers, boost productivity, and unlock creativity in coding and beyond ✨

github.com/orgs/community/disc…


Five different ways you can use GitHub Copilot · community · Discussion #158705

Less than six months ago we launched GitHub Copilot Free for all our users, starting a new era of possibilities. So many possibilities in fact that it can be easy to miss all the great ways you can...
GitHub
#GAAD

Woohoo! So far, we have 62 people pledging 269 hours towards improving accessibility in WordPress this Thursday for Global Accessibility Awareness Day! 🙌 Join us in spending a day working on accessibility issues in WordPress core, plugins, or on your own website!

equalizedigital.com/gaad2025/ #WordPress #GAAD #GAAD2025 #accessibility #a11y


Global Accessibility Awareness Day Pledge - May 15, 2025

In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, pledge to improve accessibility in WordPress on May 15th. Find out how to get involved.
Equalize Digital
#a11y #Accessibility #wordpress #GAAD #gaad2025

Join Matt Ater and Jennison Asuncion as they recognize Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) and celebrate the 30th Anniversary of JAWS on May 14 at 4 PM ET.

Register today: tpgi.com/webinar-marking-a-mil…

#Accessibility #DigitalAccessibility #A11y #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #GAAD #JAWS #Webinar


Webinar, May 14 at 4pm ET: Marking a Milestone: Celebrating 30 Years of JAWS on Global Accessibility Awareness Day - TPGi

Join us for a webinar where Matt Ater and Jennison Asuncion will celebrate the JAWS 30th Anniversary and discuss the significance of GAAD.
Matt Ater (TPGi)
#a11y #Accessibility #GAAD #jaws #webinar #digitalaccessibility #globalaccessibilityawarenessday

#a11y #events #GAAD #rtp #raleighnc

All these discussions about captcha and #accessibility are the demonstration of how reality is infected by inclusion-washing and performative activism. Everyone to talk about #PrideMonth in June, disability day in December, #a11y day #gaad in May, but then facts are always where they've always been: in 1999 or before. With illusions to solve it all with some out-of-box solution. (1/2)
#a11y #Accessibility #GAAD #PrideMonth

#a11y #Accessibility #GAAD #Webinars #ondemand #tpgi

This is great but can we please also have Fedora (& Ubuntu, etc.) acknowledge they started shipping operating systems without a functional screen reader when they switched to Wayland and that that’s still the case?

This is not to name and shame. Unless we acknowledge this as an error on par with shipping without monitor support and unless the culture is altered to make accessibility a showstopper, it’ll happen again.

#Fedora #GAAD #Accessibility #A11y #Linux #OpenSource fosstodon.org/@fedora/11245033…

Fedora Project (F42 is OUT)

2024-05-16 10:39:12

mastodon - Link to source

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we want to recognize the work being done on accessibility by @matt as part of the @gnome Foundation. He is the lead for @accesskit and is currently working on Newton, a Wayland-oriented solution for assistive technologies that can modernize accessibility on the Linux desktop!

➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=w9psDfEFf9…

#Fedora #GAAD #Accessibility #A11y #Linux #OpenSource



Modernizing Accessibility for Desktop Linux - Matt Campbell, GNOME Foundation

Modernizing Accessibility for Desktop Linux - Matt Campbell, GNOME FoundationThe desktop Linux ecosystem has changed dramatically since accessibility was fir...
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#a11y #Accessibility #linux #opensource #fedora #GAAD

Our #GAAD edition In-Process #blog is out, featuring all the news on #NVDA 2024.2beta 1, the amazing mini-documentary @github made our new issue template and more!

Get on top of all the #GAAD #news here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

#NVDAsr #Accessibility #Newsletter #GitHub #FOSS #ScreenReader

In-Process 17th May 2024

Welcome to this 2024 Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) issue of In-Process! Let’s kick things off with a new Beta! NVDA 2024.2 Beta 1 We are very pleased to share NVDA 2024.2 Beta 1. …
NV Access
#Accessibility #foss #blog #github #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #GAAD #nvda @GitHub

#GAAD

Chromebooks already have great screen reading capabilities built in...

Awww Google, how cute of you. Great? Nope. Next time, remember. Nothing about us, **without us**. ChromeVox has barely been updated in *years*, just like VoiceOver for Mac, and Narrator. ChromeVox barely has any options for fine-tuning verbosity, keyboard commands, pronunciation, and some keyboard commands, like Search + Control + A for accessibility actions, aren't even well-documented. I should know. I had to use an Acer Spin 713 for a good 3 months as my primary laptop. So kindly stop talking, then ask, then act before you speak further.

"Updated keyboard shortcuts and first-letters navigation in Google Drive"...

First letters navigation? Come on. Any blind person can *tell* that this wasn't written by anyone who uses these technologies.

And nowhere in this article is anything new for ChromeVox. See? This is the kind of, frankly, bullshit that I hate on GAAD. Just shut your mouth and listen for once.

blog.google/outreach-initiativ…

#Accessibility #blind #google #ChromeOS #Chromebook #ChromeVox #GAAD


How we’re building accessibility into our Chromebooks around the world

Read about our partnerships in Kenya that bring Chromebooks to low vision and blind children, and learn more about new Chromebook updates for Global Accessibility Awaren…
Sara Basson (Google)
#Accessibility #google #blind #chromeos #GAAD #chromebook #chromevox

#a11y #GAAD

Übrigens...

heute ist der Internationale Tag zur digitalen Barrierefreiheit, Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Gerade rechtzeitig erreichte mich ein Foto aus der Presseabteilung des Landratsamtes um diesen Beitrag fertigstellen zu können:

kom-in.de/182/landrat-informie…
#GAAD#a11y#Inklusion#digitaleTeilhabe@komin@bildung.social


Landrat informiert sich zu digitaler Teilhabe und Blindenhörzeitschriften

Das KOM-IN-Netzwerk präsentiert zu 950 Jahre Unterloquitz Blindenhörzeitschriften und thematisiert digitale Teilhabe
www.kom-in.de
#a11y #GAAD #inklusion #digitaleteilhabe @KOM-IN-Netzwerk

#Accessibility #google #talkback #AI #GAAD

Wikipedia mentions that it's Global Accessibility Awareness Day on the English version's main page, but to create an account on there and many of the Wikimedia Foundation's other projects you have to complete an inaccessible captcha. They offer an option for someone to create an account for you if you can't fill it in, but that's not good enough.
There's been a ticket open about this since 2006 according to the date stamp and nothing's been done.
phabricator.wikimedia.org/T684…
#GAAD #Wikipedia #Wikimedia

⚓ T6845 CAPTCHA doesn't work for people with visual impairments

phabricator.wikimedia.org
#wikipedia #wikimedia #GAAD

This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we have something special to share! @github made a movie about our founders Mick & Jamie & the story of not only NVDA, but also OSARA. Two life-changing open-source projects. Both actively providing access & employment to blind people around the world.

Read the article here: github.com/readme/featured/nvd…

Watch the video (with AD) on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=N-y3yomLLS…

#GAAD #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #Employment #Empowering #ScreenReader #FOSS #OpenSource

Screenshot from the video "How NVDA & OSARA are empowering blind people globally. Mick and Jamie are in front of a laptop with the GitHub logo on the back and the text "Software by the blind, for the blind" in front. The background is blue and there is a YouTube logo in the centre.

Coding accessibility: Software by the blind, for the blind

NVDA and OSARA provide access to information, employment, community, and more, as well as empower a new generation to build a more accessible world.
Mike Melanson (GitHub)
#Accessibility #foss #opensource #screenreader #nvdasr #GAAD #nvda #employment #empowering @GitHub

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we want to recognize the work being done on accessibility by @matt as part of the @gnome Foundation. He is the lead for @accesskit and is currently working on Newton, a Wayland-oriented solution for assistive technologies that can modernize accessibility on the Linux desktop!

➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=w9psDfEFf9…

#Fedora #GAAD #Accessibility #A11y #Linux #OpenSource


Modernizing Accessibility for Desktop Linux - Matt Campbell, GNOME Foundation

Modernizing Accessibility for Desktop Linux - Matt Campbell, GNOME FoundationThe desktop Linux ecosystem has changed dramatically since accessibility was fir...
YouTube
#a11y #Accessibility #linux #opensource #fedora #GAAD @Matt Campbell @GNOME @Access Kit

Friends! It’s Monday. And this week is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD)! You know what that means.

📢 I'm having a GAAD SALE

Starting today, you can get the Practical Accessibility course at 25% OFF 🎁 ⤵️

practical-accessibility.today

The sale ends on May 20th. ⏳

#a11y


The Practical Accessibility Course

A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today
practical-accessibility.today
#a11y #GAAD

#a11y #events #GAAD #rtp #raleighnc

#a11y #Accessibility #events #GAAD #raleighnc

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