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Global Accessibility Review for Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2014
Webinar delivered: 15 May 2014
To mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), we assembled an international network of accessibility specialists for a webinar to discuss accessibility issues across the world:
- Shadi Abou-Zahra - World Wide Web Consortium/Web Accessibility Initiative
- David Woodbridge - Vision Australia
- Thomas Richter - Samsung
- Ricardo Garcia - Technosite
- Dennis Lembree - Easychirp/PayPal
- Ken Nakata at Hi Software/Compliance Sheriff
The video above can be shown with Youtube's automatic captions - we are preparing a version with captions which will be placed here as soon as possible.
A full transcript of the webinar is available to download as a Word document using the link below.
A number of themes emerged including:
- how can the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) respond to the emerginence of the internet of things?
- harmonising accessibility legislation
- accessible social media.
Read more on our blog post based on the webinar