Digital Accessibility Awareness week, a movement for accessible learning platforms, is taking place all week from 16-19 May.
Thursday 19 May marks Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). This is a day for celebration and raising awareness of how we can all contribute to creating accessible and inclusive environments whether that be in education, at home, at work, or in our communities.
To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022, Westminster is putting on a series of expert lunchtime talks about digital accessibility in higher education. With guest speakers from Disabled Students UK, disability charities, and accessibility industry experts, there is a line-up of fantastic speakers that you won’t want to miss.
Talks include:
- Going back is not a choice: Accessibility Lessons for Higher Education – Founding Director, Disabled Students UK
- Accessible Recruitment: Easy Steps to make recruiting more inclusive – Digital Accessibility lead, UoW
- Accessible STEMM Notation – UCL
- Accessible Music Notation – Digital Accessibility lead, UCL
- Supporting Blind and partially sighted students – Thomas Pocklington Trust
- Creating Inclusive and Accessible workplace: Sharing experiences of UoW’s Colleague Disability network – Senior Lecturer, UoW
- Sustaining Accessibility: Accessibility related appraisal objectives – University of Southampton
- Teaching accessibility as a shared endeavour: Answering key challenges in the building of accessibility culture
This series of talks, organised by the University of Westminster Digital Accessibility team, is open to all students.
Find out more information and sign up to attend on Eventbrite.
