{"id":1493,"date":"2021-05-20T15:52:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2021-05-20T15:52:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:52:59","slug":"global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/2021\/05\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Accessibility Awareness day &#8211; 20 May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/files\/2021\/05\/Global-awareness-day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"763\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/files\/2021\/05\/Global-awareness-day.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/files\/2021\/05\/Global-awareness-day.jpg 763w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/files\/2021\/05\/Global-awareness-day-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/files\/2021\/05\/Global-awareness-day-100x51.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/files\/2021\/05\/Global-awareness-day-150x77.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/files\/2021\/05\/Global-awareness-day-200x102.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/files\/2021\/05\/Global-awareness-day-450x230.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/files\/2021\/05\/Global-awareness-day-600x307.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org\/\">https:\/\/globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Thursday, May 20, 2021, marks the tenth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access\/inclusion and people with different disabilities <a href=\"https:\/\/globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org\/\">https:\/\/globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>With this in mind IT Services would like to promote some of the tools which exist as part of the market leading software.  Many software companies now promote accessibility by design.  Read Aloud and Dictate are available in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/help\/faq.php?faqid=2913\">Microsoft 365<\/a> products. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/help\/faq.php?faqid=2936\">Chrome <\/a>allows for any video shown through the browser to be automatically subtitled. Live captions\/subtitles is an option within Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint in Microsoft 365 and the University of Sussex Zoom platform. IT Services have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/help\/faq?faqid=2735\">additional software<\/a> to support  learning such as the mind mapping tool Mindview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/Accessibility\/disability-answer-desk?activetab=contact-pivot%3aprimaryr9\">Windows 10<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-gb\/accessibility\">Mac OS<\/a> have accessibility information pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also recommend a visit to the University Technology Enhanced Learning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/accessibility\">Accessibility Toolkit<\/a> or see their<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2021\/05\/17\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-gaad\/\"> Blog for further information<\/a> around the GAAD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><div class=\"linkedin_button\"><script type=\"in\/share\" data-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/2021\/05\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may\/\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/2021\/05\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may\/\" data-text=\"Global Accessibility Awareness day - 20 May\" data-via=\"itservices\" >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/2021\/05\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/2021\/05\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp sd-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/2021\/05\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may\/?share=jetpack-whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on WhatsApp\"><span>WhatsApp<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/2021\/05\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, May 20, 2021, marks the tenth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access\/inclusion and people with different disabilities https:\/\/globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org\/ With this in mind IT Services would<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/2021\/05\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><div class=\"linkedin_button\"><script type=\"in\/share\" data-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/2021\/05\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may\/\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/2021\/05\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may\/\" data-text=\"Global Accessibility Awareness day - 20 May\" data-via=\"itservices\" >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/2021\/05\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/2021\/05\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp sd-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/2021\/05\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may\/?share=jetpack-whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on WhatsApp\"><span>WhatsApp<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/2021\/05\/global-accessibility-awareness-day-20-may\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":347,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}