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Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) 2024
Thursday, May 16, 2024 marks the 13th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). GAAD aims to get people talking, thinking, and learning about digital accessibility and the roughly 1 billion people it affects. It takes places on the 3rd Thursday of May every year. GAAD’s Origins The idea of a Global Accessibility Awareness Day came from…
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what is the purple pound and why it’s important to your business
In an ever growing digital landscape, it is crucial that everyone has access. And yet a significant demographic remains largely overlooked. This article explores that demographic and the importance of the Purple Pound to businesses and their bottom line. What is The Purple Pound? The Purple Pound refers to the collective spending power of disabled…
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exploring the future of accessibility
This year marks the 25th birthday of WCAG 1.0 (the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines). Published on May 5th 1999, WCAG 1.0 is 16 years junior of the Internet. This age gap begs the question, will the Internet and accessibility ever be on equal footing? Looking to the future, we are seeing the rise of new…
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google research made project guideline open source, and it’s a big deal
In 2019, Thomas Panek, president and CEO of Guiding Eyes, asked “Can we help a blind runner navigate? Can we make that happen? Can we make a navigation for a blind person possible” at Google’s 2019 Hackathon. “That’s the first time I ran alone in decades”. Fast forwards to Tuesday the 21st of November, 2023.…
