GAAD 2020 WEBINAR: "When Rhetoric Meets Reality: Digital Accessibility, Persons With Disabilities, and COVID-19"

 The Internet Society Special Interest Group hosted a webinar to celebrate the Global Accessibility awareness Day on  “When rhetoric meets reality: Digital Accessibility, Persons With Disabilities and COVID-19” in May 2020.

This webinar brought together digital accessibility experts and people with disabilities to discuss the digital accessibility outlook beyond COVID-19. The webinar aimed to share and offer a variety of ideas from different disabilities and different parts of the world.

The speakers were:

Muhammad Shabbir Awan, President, ISOC Accessibility SIG

Keynote: How governments can integrate eaccessibility into their web presences

David Berman, David Berman communications, Canada

Naveed Haq, Internet Society, Pakistan

Manique Gunaratne, Manager, Specialized Training and Disability Resource Centre, The Employers’ Federation of Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Gunela Astbrink, Vice President Accessibility SIG, Australia

Fernando Botelho, F123 initiative, Brazil

Judy Okite, founder, Association for Accessibility and Equality(AAFE), Kenya

Peter Crosbie, advocate for the autistic community, France

Lidia Best, Vice President, European Federation of Hard of Hearing, UK

#Manique Gunaratne

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