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Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)

The UW will be celebrating GAAD by offering a full day of workshops and presentations related to digital accessibility. This will be a hybrid event, in person and on Zoom, with a wide variety of activities from 9:00am to 6:00pm. For more details, including a schedule of activities and registration links, see the UW GAAD 2025 web page.

Monthly UW Web Accessibility and Usability Meetup

These monthly meetups, formerly known as “Explore with Hadi”, provide an opportunity for UW web developers and designers to discuss accessibility and usability issues in a relaxed, casual setting, and provide friendly feedback on each others’ web projects. We encourage you to bring your accessibility questions or just join us to see what others are working on. Meetings are hosted by Hadi Rangin, a web accessibility specialist with UW-IT Accessible Technology Services. Hadi has a Master’s degree in computer science and is a screen reader user himself, so these meetings are great opportunities to experience how your website might be experienced by someone using assistive technology.

Meetups are now held at a new time: On the 4th Tuesday of each month, 11:00am – Noon. The agenda and Zoom URL are announced a few days prior to the event on the AccessibleWeb@U email list (see below for details about the list). If you would like to attend and are not a subscriber to this list, please contact us by sending an email to help@uw.edu or by submitting our Accessibility Consultation Form (requires a UW NetID) and we’ll send you the link.

Monthly UW Instruction Accessibility Meetup

Faculty and course designers are invited to join an informal, friendly conversation about making online components of courses accessible to students with disabilities. Ask questions about accessibility and universal design for learning (UDL), hear colleagues’ ideas, and share what is working for your own courses!

Meetings are hosted by Mary-Colleen Jenkins, an instruction accessibility specialist with Accessible Technology Services (ATS). Mary-Colleen is a former UW instructor herself, so this is a great opportunity to discuss logistics and how to set priorities for improving course accessibility without feeling overwhelmed.

Meetups are typically on the 1st Tuesday of each month, from 12-1:00 pm on Zoom. Feel free to eat lunch while we meet!

All meetups are open to interested members of the UW community but require registration. Please register for the Tuesday, May 6 Meetup to receive the Zoom link.

This month’s topic is Where do I start? Accessibility Pep Talk & Guided Work Session. Spring is a natural time for a refresh! How about starting the spring-cleaning season with a pep talk about accessibility and a place to start? In this guided work session, we’ll share strategies for looking over your course content and set you up to develop some practical accessibility goals the next academic year. Join us!

Accessible Technology Webinar Series

We currently have no new webinars scheduled, but video recordings and links to resources from past webinars are available on the Webinar Series Archives page.

IT Accessibility Liaisons meetings

IT Accessibility Liaisons are people who represent their work unit, large or small, in a tri-campus movement to promote the procurement, development, and use of IT that is accessible to everyone. The growing network of Liaisons meets three times per year for a half-day training, typically in February, May, and November. Details about the next meeting will be posted here once they’re finalized. For more information on becoming a Liaison, see the IT Accessibility Liaisons page.

AccessibleWeb@U

AccessibleWeb@U is a community of UW web designers, developers, and other interested people who discuss and share ideas on accessible web design through their online discussion list.