Be A Digital Ally: Organizational Accessibility Policies - What, How, Why?

July’s Be A Digital Ally is all about Organizational Accessibility Policy! Kevin White of the W3C joins Knowbility in discussing the steps of policy creation, taking into consideration who it serves, what it’s for, how it’s maintained, and more. We’ll also be discussing what happens after the policy goes into place, including progress and impact measurement. Everything you need to know about accessibility policy is right here on Zoom, July 20th at 2PM CST!

You don’t want to miss this session! Kevin White is a skilled accessibility professional with years of experience and has some incredibly valuable insight to offer from an international perspective. 

About Kevin White:

Kevin is the Development and Operations Lead for the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). In this role Kevin supports WAI to deliver internationally recognized standards that support accessibility. He manages W3C accessibility operations, including projects, such as WAI-CooP, co-funded by the European Commission.

Kevin has been involved with W3C WAI since 2016 in different capacities. He contributes to resources that support understanding and implementing web accessibility. Kevin was the lead editor of Planning and Managing for Web Accessibility, Tips for Getting Started with Web Accessibility, and Developing Organizational Policies on Web Accessibility

Kevin was the Head of Digital Accessibility and User Research in the Scottish Government. He also worked as a digital design consultant supporting a wide range of public and private sector organizations to implement high quality, accessible and usable products and services. Kevin holds degrees in Psychology and in Mathematics and Computer Science.

About Knowbility:

Knowbility is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to create a more inclusive digital world for people with disabilities. We help make the internet and other technologies accessible to people who are blind or have low vision, deaf or hard of hearing, have limited mobility, and cognitive or learning disabilities. Our goal is to create a barrier-free world of information technology so that people with disabilities can fully participate in digital spaces.

We pursue our mission through three priorities:

• Education
• Awareness
• Advocacy

Accessible technology matters for the one billion people with disabilities around the world. Improved accessibility means access to healthcare providers and appointments, information technology, digital classrooms and learning, social inclusion and networking, shopping, entertainment, and travel arrangements, voter registration and civic engagement, banking and financial inclusion, & career training and employment.

Accessible digital design means everyone has access to unlimited opportunities to reach their full potential.

Your donation funds our critical work, including this free event! You can make a difference in closing the digital divide and improving digital equity, access, and opportunity for disabled people.

You can read more about our programs and the work we do on the Knowbility website.

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