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Global Accessibility Awareness Day – Raising Awareness about Digital Accessibility
By ETV Bharat English Team
Published : 22 hours ago
National Association for the Blind (NAB) presents useful technology & apps for blindness people at Andhajan shala in Surat on June 16(ANI Photo)
Global Accessibility Awareness Day gets everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and how to make digital products and services usable by everyone, regardless of their ability.
Hyderabad: Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is an awareness day that focuses on digital access and inclusion for the more than one billion people alive today who are disabled or living with disabilities. This year on the third Thursday of month, 16 May, the 13th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) will be celebrated.
With people around the world more dependent on the web than in decades past, the changing landscape of the internet is demanding equal and easy digital accessibility for everyone, regardless of their limitations. Global Accessibility Awareness Day gets everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and how to make digital products and services usable by everyone, regardless of their ability.
The purpose of GAAD:
- Its purpose is to raise awareness about [...]