Inclusive India Summit on Thursday to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day

On Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2025, India Takes a Step Towards Ensuring Digital Accessibility - The Times of Bengal

A draft curriculum to teach digital accessibility in undergraduate computer science and design courses was unveiled at the Inclusive India Summit, held at the India International Centre, New Delhi, on the occasion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) 2025. The initiative aims to ensure accessibility becomes a core part of how future technologists and designers are trained in India. The summit brought together academic leaders, accessibil…

Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Today, May 15th, marks Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), a worldwide event dedicated to promoting digital access and inclusion for people with disabilities. At Pine Court Housing Association, we firmly believe that everyone deserves equal access to information and services, regardless of their abilities. This day serves as an important reminder of our ongoing commitment to making our digital world more user-friendly for all our customer…

New Delhi: ‘Inclusive India Summit’ – #Gallery

New Delhi: Secretary of the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), Rajesh Aggarwal addresses at the ‘Inclusive India Summit’ organised on the occasion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day at India International Centre in... - Social News XYZ

Our pledge to help improve the accessibility of open source software at scale

GitHub is honored to take the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) Pledge, reaffirming our commitment to improving accessibility in open source software. Through our work, our aim is to empower people with disabilities to contribute to open source, increase the availability of open source Assistive Technologies, and enhance the accessibility of mainstream open source projects.  Joe Devon initially proposed the idea for GAAD in a 2011 blog p…

5 Women Share Their Experiences Travelling With A Disability

In the world of travel, accessibility is still too often an afterthought, with many destinations and experiences failing to meet the needs of disabled travellers. Today marks Global Accessibility Awareness Day – a moment to shine a spotlight on equal access for all, so we asked five women to share their experiences travelling with a disability, as well as their favourite destinations.

Inclusive India Summit on Thursday to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day

New Delhi, May 14 (PTI) The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) will host the 'Inclusive India Summit' here on Thursday to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day. The summit aims to promote inclusive development and digital accessibility for persons with disabilities across the country, DEPwD, which comes under Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, said in a statement. The event will bring together government re…