Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) focuses on digital access and inclusion for the more than one billion peoplewith disabilities and impairments. It is marked annually on the third Thursday of May.
What is accessibility and why is it important?
Much of the world utilizes digital technology to share information. It is often required to find contact information, make appointments, purchase services, manage financial accounts, and more. For the millions of people around the world with disabilities, websites, and electronic communications are not usable. This could be due to visual, fine motor, cognitive or other disabilities. When these tools are inaccessible, people with disabilities are at a disadvantage and often unable to work and live independently, without needing someone else to assist them to do the same things another person can do by and for themselves…
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