[games_access] May 15th - Global Accessibility Awareness Day

[Ian Hamilton]

The time has come around again! It's the third year now for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, last year saw all kinds of nice events going on around the world.
globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org
It's about digital accessibility in general, which means predominantly web and apps still. But there are a couple of gaming related things going on that I know of, both game jams, firstly in London on May 16th-18th, hosted by Ukie, a games industry body in the UK (#a11yjam):
ukie.org.uk/content/ukie-hosts-game-jam-mark-global-accessibility-awareness-day
And secondly an online jam, running from May 11th - June 1st (#accessibilityjam):
http://jams.gamejolt.io/AccessibilityJam
If anyone is interested in making themselves available for developers to ask accessibility advice from during the online jam, contact jo at nsomniart.com. Spreading the word about either event would also I'm sure be greatly appreciated :)
GAAD is a great reason to do something to spread, even if only just a tweet.. if you tweet on the day using the #gaad hashtag you'll reach a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about learning more about accessibility.  If you want to get a bit more involved and do something bigger,  be sure to let the organisers know on globala11yawarenessday at gmail.com. 
The most common types of events are either doing a talk about accessibility, either open to the public or internally at work or within an academic institution, or writing an blog post / article, but anything at all that helps to spread the word about accessibility is fair game :)
Ian 		 	   		  
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