A day meant to foster communication, education, and awareness about digital access and inclusion.
There's a huge community posting about accessibility daily. These people keep me informed and motivated to do my best every day.
GAAD is great, but it's just one day. Do what you can to keep accessibility awareness front of mind all year round. Check out the feeds below, start following some.
Let's make this day an opportunity to celebrate the effort, ingenuity, and creativity that goes into making the web a friendlier and more inclusive place, one captioned image at a time.
While my original proposal to hide images in order to highlight the importance of well-written alt text did not gain a whole lot of traction, I'm still glad there was some conversation, and grateful to everyone who is still interested in joining in.
If you do participate, I would love to hear from you!
Thinking about spending the whole #gaad on #linkedin waiting for companies to post about how much they care about #accessibility and then check if they practice what they preach
Let me know if you think this is cool or something bullies would do
In solidarity with the blind and vision-impaired community, I propose that twice a year, on the World Sight Day and the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, fediverse admins disable images on their servers to highlight the importance of writing good image descriptions.