London, Dublin, GAAD 2023!
Posted on June 9, 2023
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This is an article about Lainey’s visit to London and Dublin in May 2023. Lainey went to these cities to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). Her time outside the United States was full of new and renewed friendships in the access community. She gave a few talks. Lainey also visited with people who work to make the digital world a place of inclusion and belonging for disabled people. Lainey wrote this article to help her preserve her memories of GAAD 2023. She thanks everyone who made her visit so wonderful. And she wants to remind readers that accessibility is more than a job, more than an industry. It is a community that is global.
This year, on the 11th anniversary of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I lived the G in GAAD by spending GAAD week in London, with a side trip to Dublin. Being immersed in the digital accessibility community in the UK was a treat.
And after working in the digital accessibility space for 27 years, GAAD 2023 outside the United States was an energy boost I hadn’t realized I needed.
My annual GAAD writing this year also had an international bent. [...]