Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) - What does Access Mean?

Join us for an insightful discussion into people's positive and negative experience of products and services. We will look at what access means in terms of technology, environments and content, from people with lived experience of being excluded. We will also give some practical and creative guidance on how you can write content and describe images in a meaningful way. We will finish our talks with a panel discussions, where our speakers will answer any questions you have.

Our speakers on the day

Molly Watt, who specialises in assistive technology and designing for those with a sensory impairment. Molly delivers accessibility training across private, not-for-profit and public sector organisations.

Holly Scott-Gardner is a writer, disability rights advocate, postgraduate student in the field of social and public policy at the University of Leeds and a trainee usability assessor within the third sector.

Justin Darley, who heads up the Nexer Digital content design team. He leads and actively participates in user research as well as stakeholder, content and co-design workshops.

William Caston-Cook, a content designer with over a decade of editorial and writing experience. Will has always been fascinated by the intersection of human beings and technology.

Lisa Matthews, a dyslexic content designer with a background in business information and publishing. Trained in the late 80s as a tactile designer, she is an established UK Creative Writing scholar who has published/co-authored nearly a dozen books.

Joining the event

We will run the event using Microsoft Teams, on which you can use the captioning facility. The event will be recorded and the video captioned afterwards. A meeting link will be emailed out before the event to anyone who registers.