GAAD 2025: Progressing your accessibility journey
- 14 May 2025, 11:00am (AEST)
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Join us for a free webinar presented by the TTC Digital Accessibility Practice to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)
TTC Global Digital Accessibility Practice Technical Lead, Beau Vass will discuss what automated testing tools often miss when testing for digital accessibility. By understanding the strengths and weaknesses of these tools, we can understand where and how (and if at all) these tools fit into our accessibility strategy, and what else we need to do to ensure our digital systems are accessible and usable for everyone.
We will also be joined by John Paul Cruz, a disability policy and digital accessibility and inclusion specialist with a focus on human rights, accessibility, child rights, digital transformation, health information, and urban development. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, researching the improvement of online health information accessibility for people who are blind or have low vision. John will share his experience on the significance of digital accessibility for assistive technology users and provide insights to support organisations on their digital accessibility and inclusion journey.
Register for our webinar to learn more about:
- Starting out or continuing to improve maturity
- The impact of digital accessibility on assistive technology users
- What automated tools won't show you
And don’t forget to share this with your colleagues and friends to raise awareness about the importance of digital accessibility!
Speakers
Beau is the Technical Lead of the TTC Global Accessibility Practice and was formerly the Lead Auditing and Testing consultant for Vision Australia’s Digital Access team. In another life, Beau was a Senior Front-End Developer, with over 13 years development experience within web development agencies around Melbourne which brings a unique understanding and insight on the challenges of digital accessibility and development.
John is a disability policy and digital accessibility and inclusion specialist with a focus on human rights, accessibility, child rights, digital transformation, health information, and urban development. He has worked on projects assessing the accessibility of regional human rights mechanisms, political participation of Filipinos with disabilities, the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the rights of people with disabilities to sustainable urban living. Additionally, he is the country representative for the Philippines in the Smart Cities for All Program and has been instrumental in drafting the ASEAN Enabling Masterplan, a regional disability action plan.
A former US-ASEAN Fulbright and Salzburg Global Seminar fellow, John holds a master's degree in International Affairs focusing on international and comparative disability policy from American University, Washington, D.C. and a bachelor's degree in public administration from the University of the Philippines. John has also been a visiting research fellow at the Berkeley School of Law. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, researching the improvement of online health information accessibility for visually impaired people.
John will share his experience on the significance of digital accessibility for assistive technology users and guide organisations on their digital accessibility and inclusion journey.
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- 14 May 2025, 11:00am (AEST)
- Register now