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Join the OHIO-DAN in celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Printed: Could 13, 2022
Thursday, Could 19, 2022, marks the eleventh yr of International Accessibility Consciousness Day (GAAD). GAAD is an occasion that promotes digital accessibility and inclusion to people with disabilities and impairments.
This yr, the OHIO Digital Accessibility Community (OHIO-DAN) is working to unfold information and consciousness to the bigger OHIO campus group on greatest practices for usability and accessibility.
The Digital Accessibility Community hopes that by conducting completely different interactive alternatives for the campus group, school, workers, and college students can:
- Have an elevated consciousness of the problems and challenges these people with disabilities encounter.
- Foster an atmosphere of inclusivity via additional schooling and consciousness of the difficulty.
- Uncover ways in which they’ll make enhancements to their very own work to turn into extra accessible.
The OHIO-DAN is a College-wide, interdisciplinary group of volunteers who’re dedicated to serving to Ohio College not solely enhance its present instruments to satisfy accessibility objectives but additionally incorporate greatest practices in coding, content material creation, and the IT purchases made.
Need to be extra concerned? Contemplate becoming a member of the OHIO-DAN, the place contributors are inspired to help efforts throughout all OHIO campuses to enhance digital accessibility for everybody.