Global Accessibility Review for Global Accessibility Awareness Day 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 Sherif

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 our blog about the key issues raised in the webinar.

A full transcript of the webinar is available to download as a Word document using the link below.

 

Date of webinar: 
15 May 2014 - 15:30