{"id":5841,"date":"2017-05-18T14:54:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/?p=5841"},"modified":"2017-05-18T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:54:51","slug":"18-may-2017-is-global-accessibility-awareness-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2017\/05\/18-may-2017-is-global-accessibility-awareness-day\/","title":{"rendered":"18 May 2017 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (18\/5\/17) is the sixth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3367 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2014\/04\/assistive-956x256-300x80.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>&#8220;The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) access\/inclusion and people with different disabilities.&#8221; \u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org\/\">http:\/\/globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org\/<\/a>.)&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To celebrate this, Matt Clare from Brock University, (Chair of Sakai Accessibility Working Group,) has written <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sakaiproject.org\/news\/20170518-global-accessibility-awareness-day\">a blog post about accessibility (aka <em>a11y<\/em>) in Sakai and designing accessible content<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2017\/02\/weblearn-version-11-ox4-released-on-31st-january-2017\/\">Accessibility Checker in the WYSIWYG HTML Editor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2014\/04\/designing-accessible-web-pages\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Designing Accessible Web Pages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2014\/07\/accessibility-and-colour-blindness\/\">Accessibility and Colour Blindness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2009\/10\/writing-for-the-web-tips\/\">Writing for the Web 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2009\/12\/writing-for-the-web-tips-2\/\">Writing for the Web 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2016\/01\/writing-for-the-web-video-playlist\/\">Writing for the Web Lynda.com Playlist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2014\/07\/copyright-changes-accessibility\/\">Copyright and Accessibility<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (18\/5\/17) is the sixth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). &#8220;The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) access\/inclusion and people with different disabilities.&#8221; \u00a0(http:\/\/globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org\/.)&#8221; To celebrate this, Matt Clare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2017\/05\/18-may-2017-is-global-accessibility-awareness-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,90,105],"tags":[40503,206],"class_list":["post-5841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-sakai","category-weblearn","tag-accessibility","tag-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5841"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5845,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions\/5845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}