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From: Jennison Mark Asuncion
Date: Tue, May 08 2012 4:56PM
Subject: marking Global Accessibility Awareness Day
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In some parts of the world, May 9, and the launch of the first Global
Accessibility Awareness Day is already upon us. Please take a minute to
forward this e-mail to at least one designer or developer, or someone who
influences the funding or use of technology and who likely knows little to
nothing about digital accessibility at all.

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May 9 marks the first Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). GAAD is a
community effort to get people talking, thinking and learning about
digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with
different disabilities. The goal is to spread basic awareness especially
among the design, development, usability, and related communities who
build, shape, fund and influence technology use and change.

Please take time out of your day to learn more about digital accessibility
first-hand and get involved http://www.mysqltalk.com/participate.html.
Consider sharing this message with your contacts.

With thanks in advance,
Joe Devon and Jennison Asuncion
Co-Organizers, Global Accessibility Awareness Day
http://www.globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org
Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/globalaccessibilityawarenessday
Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gbla11yday

From: Elle
Date: Wed, May 09 2012 6:46AM
Subject: Re: marking Global Accessibility Awareness Day
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Our organization is participating today with "Lunch Unplugged" - all
employees are encouraged to spend their lunch hour surfing the web,
checking email, and doing what they normally would on the computer, just
without the use of their mouse.


Cheers,
Elle



On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Jennison Mark Asuncion <
= EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> In some parts of the world, May 9, and the launch of the first Global
> Accessibility Awareness Day is already upon us. Please take a minute to
> forward this e-mail to at least one designer or developer, or someone who
> influences the funding or use of technology and who likely knows little to
> nothing about digital accessibility at all.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> May 9 marks the first Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). GAAD is a
> community effort to get people talking, thinking and learning about
> digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with
> different disabilities. The goal is to spread basic awareness especially
> among the design, development, usability, and related communities who
> build, shape, fund and influence technology use and change.
>
> Please take time out of your day to learn more about digital accessibility
> first-hand and get involved http://www.mysqltalk.com/participate.html.
> Consider sharing this message with your contacts.
>
> With thanks in advance,
> Joe Devon and Jennison Asuncion
> Co-Organizers, Global Accessibility Awareness Day
> http://www.globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org
> Like us on Facebook:
> http://www.facebook.com/globalaccessibilityawarenessday
> Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gbla11yday
>
> > > >



--
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the people to gather wood,
divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast
and endless sea.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

From: Denis Boudreau
Date: Wed, May 09 2012 9:05AM
Subject: Re: marking Global Accessibility Awareness Day
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Hi Jennison,

A proposal, much more than a simple comment or a criticism: for next year, let's make GAAD really global by making it available in different languages. <smile>

For starters, I'm volunteering to help with french...

/Denis



On 2012-05-08, at 6:56 PM, Jennison Mark Asuncion wrote:

> In some parts of the world, May 9, and the launch of the first Global
> Accessibility Awareness Day is already upon us. Please take a minute to
> forward this e-mail to at least one designer or developer, or someone who
> influences the funding or use of technology and who likely knows little to
> nothing about digital accessibility at all.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> May 9 marks the first Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). GAAD is a
> community effort to get people talking, thinking and learning about
> digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with
> different disabilities. The goal is to spread basic awareness especially
> among the design, development, usability, and related communities who
> build, shape, fund and influence technology use and change.
>
> Please take time out of your day to learn more about digital accessibility
> first-hand and get involved http://www.mysqltalk.com/participate.html.
> Consider sharing this message with your contacts.
>
> With thanks in advance,
> Joe Devon and Jennison Asuncion
> Co-Organizers, Global Accessibility Awareness Day
> http://www.globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org
> Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/globalaccessibilityawarenessday
> Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gbla11yday
>
> > >

From: Karen Mardahl
Date: Wed, May 09 2012 10:10AM
Subject: Re: marking Global Accessibility Awareness Day
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I volunteer to coordinate the Danish and maybe get some other Nordic
languages set, too.

Just to brag about my bit for GAAD: I just used 50 minutes to transcribe a
3.44 YouTube video about the odt2braille and odt2daisy extensions for
AccessODF, the accessibility evaluation checker for OpenOffice and
LibreOffice.
The video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GeCsjnAEXg
I submitted my transcript to someone who should turn the transcript into
captions soon.

The 50 minutes includes all my multiple checks of words, plus writing the
mail to send off the transcript, and a couple of interruptions at my desk.
Soon, open source afficionados will be flocking to SourceForge to download
these products...!

And now to head home and finalize the slides for my presentation tomorrow
about "Building Accessibly" - for software developers. This list has given
me input and inspiration and I will report back on what happens. If you can
read Danish, you can read the blurb at
http://communityday2012.c1preprod01.composite.net/Program/Byg-tilgaengeligt
The picture of me has, of course, no alt text. After tomorrow, I hope
they'll have learned their lesson!

regards, Karen Mardahl

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Denis Boudreau < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >wrote:

> Hi Jennison,
>
> A proposal, much more than a simple comment or a criticism: for next year,
> let's make GAAD really global by making it available in different
> languages. <smile>
>
> For starters, I'm volunteering to help with french...
>
> /Denis
>
>
>
> On 2012-05-08, at 6:56 PM, Jennison Mark Asuncion wrote:
>
> > In some parts of the world, May 9, and the launch of the first Global
> > Accessibility Awareness Day is already upon us. Please take a minute to
> > forward this e-mail to at least one designer or developer, or someone who
> > influences the funding or use of technology and who likely knows little
> to
> > nothing about digital accessibility at all.
> >
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > May 9 marks the first Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). GAAD is
> a
> > community effort to get people talking, thinking and learning about
> > digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with
> > different disabilities. The goal is to spread basic awareness especially
> > among the design, development, usability, and related communities who
> > build, shape, fund and influence technology use and change.
> >
> > Please take time out of your day to learn more about digital
> accessibility
> > first-hand and get involved http://www.mysqltalk.com/participate.html.
> > Consider sharing this message with your contacts.
> >
> > With thanks in advance,
> > Joe Devon and Jennison Asuncion
> > Co-Organizers, Global Accessibility Awareness Day
> > http://www.globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org
> > Like us on Facebook:
> http://www.facebook.com/globalaccessibilityawarenessday
> > Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gbla11yday
> >
>

From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Wed, May 09 2012 10:35AM
Subject: Re: marking Global Accessibility Awareness Day
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I'd be happy to co-ordinate with the European Blind Union for GAWD
next year. I especially would like to see Once get involved and share
what they are doing for Spanish speaking countries. I have a few
contacts there by now through the EBU, and will have stengthened them
afer meetings in the fall.
Would be happy to try and get them involved for next year.
Good job Karen. :)
Good luck for tomorrow.


On 5/9/12, Karen Mardahl < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> I volunteer to coordinate the Danish and maybe get some other Nordic
> languages set, too.
>
> Just to brag about my bit for GAAD: I just used 50 minutes to transcribe a
> 3.44 YouTube video about the odt2braille and odt2daisy extensions for
> AccessODF, the accessibility evaluation checker for OpenOffice and
> LibreOffice.
> The video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GeCsjnAEXg
> I submitted my transcript to someone who should turn the transcript into
> captions soon.
>
> The 50 minutes includes all my multiple checks of words, plus writing the
> mail to send off the transcript, and a couple of interruptions at my desk.
> Soon, open source afficionados will be flocking to SourceForge to download
> these products...!
>
> And now to head home and finalize the slides for my presentation tomorrow
> about "Building Accessibly" - for software developers. This list has given
> me input and inspiration and I will report back on what happens. If you can
> read Danish, you can read the blurb at
> http://communityday2012.c1preprod01.composite.net/Program/Byg-tilgaengeligt
> The picture of me has, of course, no alt text. After tomorrow, I hope
> they'll have learned their lesson!
>
> regards, Karen Mardahl
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Denis Boudreau
> < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >wrote:
>
>> Hi Jennison,
>>
>> A proposal, much more than a simple comment or a criticism: for next
>> year,
>> let's make GAAD really global by making it available in different
>> languages. <smile>
>>
>> For starters, I'm volunteering to help with french...
>>
>> /Denis
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2012-05-08, at 6:56 PM, Jennison Mark Asuncion wrote:
>>
>> > In some parts of the world, May 9, and the launch of the first Global
>> > Accessibility Awareness Day is already upon us. Please take a minute to
>> > forward this e-mail to at least one designer or developer, or someone
>> > who
>> > influences the funding or use of technology and who likely knows little
>> to
>> > nothing about digital accessibility at all.
>> >
>> >
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > May 9 marks the first Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). GAAD
>> > is
>> a
>> > community effort to get people talking, thinking and learning about
>> > digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with
>> > different disabilities. The goal is to spread basic awareness
>> > especially
>> > among the design, development, usability, and related communities who
>> > build, shape, fund and influence technology use and change.
>> >
>> > Please take time out of your day to learn more about digital
>> accessibility
>> > first-hand and get involved http://www.mysqltalk.com/participate.html.
>> > Consider sharing this message with your contacts.
>> >
>> > With thanks in advance,
>> > Joe Devon and Jennison Asuncion
>> > Co-Organizers, Global Accessibility Awareness Day
>> > http://www.globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org
>> > Like us on Facebook:
>> http://www.facebook.com/globalaccessibilityawarenessday
>> > Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gbla11yday
>> >
>>
> > > >