BBC Accessibility Awareness Day

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Official account for the annual event returning on Thursday 16 May 2019. Trying to get everyone thinking about tech and accessibility.

Salford and London
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  1. May 10

    Tickets for are sold out. Some have asked how to transfer a ticket.. For London audience For Salford Go to the ‘re:sell’ tab / eligible orders / select ‘view order’ / 'items paid for' / select 'request ticket resale'.

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  2. May 10

    5/5 Accessibility of Spoken Interfaces - Leonie Watson In Front of the Camera - a panel discussion with Gareth Ford Williams and the Disabled Artists Networking Community Event ends 16:30. Thanks from please spread the word.

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  3. May 10

    4/5 Afternoon session theme is "Tech Trends and Design" 13:40 ‘How Big Should Subtitles Be?ʼ Nigel Megitt and Edmund White title to be confirmed, but a presentation by Henny Swan ‘Genie: Accessible Games for Everyoneʼ - BBC's Graham Densham

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  4. May 10

    3/5 Jamie Knight + Lion - Exploring Barriers in VR 'Behind the Camera’ panel discussion with Paul Bepey Break for lunch.Yay. Nom nom nom...

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  5. May 10

    2/5 10:00 Welcome - Clare Sumner, BBC's Director of Policy Then keynote from Allan MacKillop, Diversity and Inclusion Disability Lead Sean Gilroy on Neurodiverse Workplace Design Richard Kurzik on BBC Access Services

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  6. May 10

    1/5 As promised, the schedule for the Event - Thursday 16 May. 10:00 BST - Live stream starts, find it here... The morning session theme is Supporting Diversity in the Workplace

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  7. May 9

    3/3 We’ll be publishing the full list of speakers tomorrow. Please help us spread the word with a RT. Follow to stay in touch.

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  8. May 9

    2/3 There will be 8 presentations by subject specialists. 2 expert panel discussions. Tech demos and videos. And we'll be roaming around grabbing photos with exhibitors and guests.

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  9. May 9

    1/3 Thursday 16 May - presents its annual Accessibility Awareness Day event . Open to all. Live streamed. Subtitled. Signed. It’s all about inclusion and accessibility, with a big focus on assistive tech, better design, broadcast media, workspaces & games.

    Access All Areas graphic showing three playful cartoon characters admiring a flower and details of the Accessibility Awareness Day event described in the tweet.
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  10. May 9

    We are looking forward to it! Please follow for more on the where and when.

    I’ll be speaking at this one about our VR work :)
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  11. May 8

    Friends of , please help us out with a RT. Let's create a buzz. We'll be publishing the full list of talks and demos over the next day or two. Follow to stay in touch.

    Head of UX Design Gareth Ford William demonstrates the 'raised wiggling hands' method of inclusive applause, ideal for an event with deaf participants.
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  12. May 8

    Thurs 16 May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day . Each year the takes part by hosting a live streamed, and live subtitled, day-long event. At we'll have subject specialists talking ideas, tech and design that makes the world more inclusive.

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  13. May 8

    Matt, we've run out of tickets for London, still a few for Salford. We'll try get a rough list of what's on posted today, definitive list by Friday. Please help us spread the word with a RT. Live stream of the event will be here, Thu 16th May:

    Hello! Have you got a list of what is happening when on the day? Just so I can fit other bits around the talks (I'd love to watch live)
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  14. Apr 30

    Back in 2017 and talked to us as Accessibility Champions producing childrens games Follow us on May 16th The event will be streamed and available for catch-up …

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  15. Apr 26

    Here's a video we showed in 2017 at on the importance of Makaton. produced by

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    Apr 26

    Featuring at along with a host of other exciting new technology for making the world more accessible

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    First look at Doctor Who VR: The Runaway 💙💙 More info >
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    Apr 16

    Some disabled people have no voice or are hard to understand. That doesn't mean they have nothing to say, explains filmmaker

    Short films for curious minds. More at bbc.com/ideas
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  18. Apr 25

    He's moved from Soundcloud and is now at

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  19. Apr 25

    At 2017, Musician Andre Louis demonstrated his accessible set-up for composing. and here’s his Soundcloud is on May 16th and the BBC’s live page is here Starts at 10am GMT

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  20. Apr 24

    Looking back to past presentations at the BBC’s first event. Here’s talking about achieving an authentic voice through casting and writing with young autistic actors May 16th's live here

    Pablo holding a green crayon with a rainbow behind him.
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