Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is held on the 3rd Thursday of each May, where designers, developers, usability experts and everyone else are encouraged to take time to experience first-hand the impact of digital accessibility.
Thursday 21st, 2020 is the ninth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), and the first since we started our company last June so we want to help build awareness and contribute to the campaign by running a webinar on accessibility and Moodle.
We are holding a one hour webinar “7 Tips to Improve Accessibility in your Moodle Courses” at 6pm IST on Zoom and will publish the recording next week. Gavin Henrick will be joined by Dr. Mark Glynn, Michelle Moore, Dr. Mark Melia and Karen Holland to discuss question close to all Moodlers’ hearts:
- What are the challenges around accessibility in Moodle?
- What type of testing to carry out?
- What resources can be used to help fix the issues?
- What improvements are coming in Moodle 3.9?
When you consider students and staff requirements for an accessible learning platform, it goes beyond the technology into course design, course materials and also student created content.
Date: 21 May 2020
Time: 6pm IST
Registration: Zoom Webinar Registration
Please note that only registrations with a valid work email address will be accepted to help avoid zoom-bombing!
Speaker biographies
Gavin Henrick is the CEO and co-founder of Brickfield Education Labs and has worked within the Moodle community for more than 14 years with Moodle Partners, Moodle HQ in addition to running the UK & Ireland Moodlemoot for most of the last decade.
Dr Mark Glynn is the Head of the Teaching Enhancement Unit at Dublin City University. Mark’s focus is to encourage and enable staff in DCU to increase their capacity to offer flexible learning. This involves managing both organisational and pedagogical based projects.
Karen Holland is the CTO and co-founder of Brickfield Education Labs. Karen is a business and UX analyst, developer and trainer, working with clients to enhance their usage and adoption of their educational platforms.
Michelle Moore is a longtime and well respected Moodle Evangelist, and a co-founder of the Moodle Partner My Learning Consultants in the US. Michelle works with clients in all phases of the instructional design process including program design and review and implementation support.
Mark Melia is Head of Product Strategy at Enovation, a leading supplier of eLearning services. Mark works with academia and industry to ensure Enovation’s eLearning products meet their needs and is a regular speaker on elearning trends and technology.