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Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)
đ§ Most workplaces are still designed for, or default to, a fictional âaverageâ brain.
And every year in May on Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), we post about accessâŚwithout changing the systems that make work inaccessible in the first place.
#Accessibility isnât a checklist. Itâs not a DEI slide. Itâs not âwe have #accommodations if you ask.â
Itâs whether your workplace really works for people who think, communicate, and process differently. In my experien
Gillian Forth
May 211 min read
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day started with a single blog post
đ§ Did you know the idea of a Global Accessibility Awareness Day started with a single blog post written by a Los Angeles-based web developer, Joe Devon, back in 2011 titled, "CHALLENGE: Accessibility know-how needs to go mainstream with developers. NOW."?
Gillian Forth
May 211 min read
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