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2018 Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) May 17

 GAAD logoThursday, May 17th is the seventh annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The target audience for this year’s free activities is UCSF website content editors, developers and owners.

Join us for a Brown Bag Presentation over the noon hour plus an afternoon of screen reader demos. Feel free to come and go during the screen reader demos, but please register at the links below.

Register to Participate

Space is limited. Please register for the event(s) you would like to attend and the Mission Bay location will be sent in your registration confirmation.

  • (Registration closed) Brown Bag Presentation from noon – 1 pm
  • (Registration closed) Screen Reader Demos from 1:30 – 4:30 pm

Brown Bag Presentation

The Brown Bag Presentation includes the announcement and demo of the new Siteimprove accessibility monitoring tool. This summer’s accessibility training schedule will also be announced.

Screen Reader Demos

Marc Sutton, an experienced screen reader user familiar with evaluating UCSF sites, will give live evaluations of websites. Experience what it’s like to hear a webpage. A developer will be on hand to help troubleshoot coding issues.

If you want your website included in the Screen Reader Demos, take the extra step to contact [email protected] to schedule a 30-minute time slot before they fill up - first come first served.