Accessibility Event Spotlight: #id24
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) is a free, virtual conference celebrating knowledge, ideas, and collaboration to help create a more inclusive digital world.
Event Spotlight: WP Accessibility Day
WordPress Accessibility Day is a free virtual event promoting inclusive and accessible best practices for WordPress-based platforms.
Accessibility Event Spotlight: ACCESS 2023
ACCESS 2023 is a free virtual conference focusing on digital accessibility and inclusion advocacy, innovations, best practices, and more—connecting thought leaders, experts, and professionals for networking, learning, and collaboration.
Founding Partner
Fable
Events
Accessibility Event Spotlight: axe-con 2023
axe-con is a free virtual conference focused on building, testing and maintaining accessible digital experiences, and welcomes developers, designers, business users and accessibility professionals of all experience levels
Disability Advocacy
Blindness/Vision Impairment
Events
Accessibility Event Spotlight: CSUN Assistive Technology Conference
This year’s CSUN Assistive Technology Conference features a new technology exhibition and live speaker sessions designed for researchers, practitioners, and educators sharing inclusive AT best practices.
Salesforce
Blindness/Vision Impairment
Salesforce & BIT: Improving Inclusion, One Employee at a Time
Salesforce Certified Administrator at the Blind Institute of Technology Alan Reuss shares how critical training changed his life after experiencing vision loss.
Fable
Blindness/Vision Impairment
Events
Accessibility Event Spotlight: ATIA 2023 Conference
This year’s Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) conference features an in-person exhibition and virtual sessions with manufacturers, sellers, and providers of AT products and services designed to enhance lives.
Design
Accessibility
Industry Spotlight
Disability Advocacy
Blindness/Vision Impairment
Why Accessible Video Games Matter
Accessible video games can contribute to overall quality of life and interpersonal relationships, as well as helping to combat social isolation for those living with all types of disabilities.
Fable
Blindness/Vision Impairment
Events
Accessibility Event Spotlight: Sight Tech Global
Sight Tech Global is a free and accessible annual virtual conference addressing how emerging technologies can improve the lives of people with disabilities.
Inclusion
Disability Advocacy
DEAM
Department of Labor Equity Action Plan: Breaking Down Systemic Barriers Experienced by Disabled & Marginalized Workers
In recognition of Disability Employment Awareness Month, the Department of Labor released a comprehensive “Equity Action Plan” to support marginalized workers and improve employment conditions, including for people with disabilities.
Accessibility
Disability Advocacy
Mental Health
Improving Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for Mental Health Disabilities
All digital products and services must strive to be inclusive and accessible per the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). However, the mental health disability community requires more specialized protocols above and beyond those outlined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Accessibility
Disability Advocacy
Mental Health
How to Create Accessible & Inclusive Digital Platforms for Those With Mental Health Disabilities
When crafting accessible and inclusive digital platforms for those living with mental health disabilities, avoid triggering images, words, and phrases, such as jumbled text, disorganized layouts, timed forms, illustrations depicting those in distress or despair, and others.
Disability Advocacy
Guide
Mental Health
How to Create Awareness & Inclusivity for Those Living With Mental Health Disabilities
With stigma and shame often attached to hidden or invisible mental health disabilities, this explainer outlines types of disabilities, associated stigmas and stereotypes, and why mental health-driven addictions have led to increased drug overdoses and mortality rates.
Founding Partner
Disability Advocacy
DEAM
Salesforce
How Disability Awareness & Acceptance Helped this Event Supervisor Be His Authentic Self in the Workplace
Justin Lacap, an event supervisor at Salesforce, discusses how he finally felt comfortable living with a speech and language disorder in the workplace for the first time in his career.
Accessibility
Disability Advocacy
Mental Health
How to Improve Web Accessibility & Digital Inclusion for Those With Mental Health Disabilities
To improve accessibility and digital inclusion for those with mental health disabilities, developers and businesses should incorporate Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), heightened sensitivity and awareness, and gentler tones into website designs and messaging. This comprehensive guide provides an overview of this significant community, along with common conditions, barriers, improvements, and much more.
DEI
Industry Spotlight
Michael Berhane: Helping People of Color in Tech to Engage, Create & Get Hired
How an interview project evolved into an online information hub, recruiting platform, and podcast to improve diversity in the technology industry.
Industry Spotlight
Toby Hervey: Blending Human Resources & Telehealth to Help Improve Workplace Culture
How a conversation with a good friend led Toby Hervey to establish Bravely, a mobile app helping people address workplace wellness issues.
Hiring
Accessibility
Industry Spotlight
Christopher Patnoe: Ensuring All Google Products & Services Are Accessible & Inclusive
As Google’s head of Accessibility Programs and Disability Inclusion, Christopher Patnoe is passionate about building technology products for people with disabilities, while also maintaining an inclusive hiring process and diverse workforce.
DEI
Industry Spotlight
Disability Advocacy
Becky Kekula: Helping Organizations Achieve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Becky Kekula is passionate about changing the way society views persons with disabilities by helping corporations understand and embrace the power of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Industry Spotlight
Disability Advocacy
Professional Opportunities & Chance Meetings Led Tiffany A. Yu to Overcome Cultural & Physical Disability Exclusion
How a student club, investment banking internship, and a stint working for Sean “Diddy” Combs guided Tiffany A. Yu toward her role as founder of Diversability.
