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From: Don Mauck
Date: Apr 18, 2013 8:42AM

For me, I love challenging folks to a mouse verses keyboard race, I've never lost that one. Give me an app that is equally known by both and I'll beat you with a keyboard any day of the week. I've had many people come to me after a month or two of learning all the different keystrokes for all the different standard products and tell me how much more efficient they are.
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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 8:39 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Global Accessibliity Awareness Day - small things regular coders or webpage dsigners could do?

Hey gang

I want to do a little promotion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day
GAAD in Iceland on May 9th (though I won´t be there).
I have connections to quite a few software and web development companies.
I was thinking about what I could make them do for the day, or for a
few hours, that has to do with accessibility, and will hopefully be an
eye opener in a good way.
One obvious thing is to ask everyone to work without their mouse for
the day, or as long as they can.
Another, I am wondering if it is easy and simple to turn color
contrast on screens down so low as to make the user color blind, or if
there is a plug-in that will provide these effects.

Any other ideas would be welcome (and if there is already a collection
of ideas out there, please point me to it).
Cheers
-B