[At-Large] Today Thurs May 18 2017 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day

[Joly MacFie]

Please take the time to read through the info and look at the ways one can
*participate* <http://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/participate.html>.including
the *no-mouse challenge* <http://nomouse.org/>. I already did my bit this
morning when my keyboard packed up in the middle of streaming the Sri Lanka
IGF.



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[image: GAAD] <http://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/participate.html>
Today, *Thursday May 18 2017*, is the sixth annual *Global Accessibility
Awareness Day <http://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/>* (GAAD). The
purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about
digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) access/inclusion and people with
different disabilities. The target audience of GAAD is the design,
development, usability, and related communities who build, shape, fund and
influence technology and its use. While people may be interested in the
topic of making technology accessible and usable by persons with
disabilities, the reality is that they often do not know how or where to
start. *Awareness comes first.*

Read the *blog post by Joe Devon
<http://mysqltalk.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/challenge-accessibility-know-how-needs-to-go-mainstream-with-developers-now>*
that
originally inspired GAAD.
Learn more about

   - *How it all got started
   <http://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/background.html>*
   - *Public events that you are invited to attend
   <http://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/events.html>*
   - *Other activities taking place to mark the day
   <http://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/activities.html>*

Whether you participate in an organized activity with others or not, join
us and take an hour out of your day to *experience digital accessibility
first-hand*. <http://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/participate.html>

*Twitter*: #GAAD http://bit.ly/gaadtweets

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