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September is National Guide Dog Month
The picture is me learning how to work with my Leader Dog Daisy.

August 21, 2024 is National Senior Citizens Day

If you enjoy editing videos and are looking for a volunteer activity that won't take too much time and you can do from home, come help us create our video content We use videos to teach about accessibility in our learning content and on social media.

We welcome anyone who would like to help, but this is a perfect volunteer activity for teens who are looking for an hour or two each week to meet NHS, Scouts, or other volunteering requirements.

Accessible Community is an all volunteer non profit dedicated to growing disability inclusive communities through socially responsible technology. Fill out the form at https://accessiblecommunity.org/volunteer/ if you are interested!

Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day!!!

To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Week, Accessible Community is publishing several resources to help organizations improve accessibility. To kick off this week, we've made all our "tips of the week" available for reuse.

If you promote accessibility in your organization, providing information about accessibility in short, plain language snippets can help others learn. It also raises awareness. You can subscribe to receive the tip of the week in your inbox or read the tip directly on our website. https://accessiblecommunity.org/services/tip-of-the-week/

All of Accessible Community's resources are available for reuse under the Creative Commons License to help you make the world more accessible.

Accessible Community - Tip of the Week Accessible Community is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides tools and resources to create a more inclusive world for people with disabilities

Tips for inclusive hiring! Inclusive hiring is the first step to making your company most accessible!

This tip of the weeks shares how to make pathways accessible- how will you use these tips for your business?

Let’s talk about accessible communication- what things do you do for your busiesss to communicate inclusively?

What takes 5 minutes to read, less than a week to do, and can dramatically improve your organization's reach and staff?

Accessible Community's Tip of the Week!

If you want to improve disability inclusion at your organization, sign up for our weekly newsletter.

Accessible Community - Tip of the Week Accessible Community is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides tools and resources to create a more inclusive world for people with disabilities

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Consider how you can promote awareness of people with disabilities in your community. We have created a list of disability related awareness days that can help you learn more and raise awareness about people with disabilities in your organization and community.

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Happy New Year's from our family to yours! Make 2024 more accessible through your actions. We are providing a short list of ideas but there are many ways that individuals can make the world more accessible by being more aware throughout the day.

We are almost a fifth of the way to meeting our goal to fund loca11y next year!

Thank you to everyone who has donated to help people with disabilities find accessible organizations in their communities!

If you are looking for somewhere to make tax deductible donations before the end of the year, please consider us or other small non-profits. We are volunteer run so everything goes to supporting our mission.

Help launch loca11y, organised by Rachael Montgomery At Accessible Community, we understand the challenges of living with a disability. We are buil… Rachael Montgomery needs your support for Help launch loca11y

We need your help. We want to make accessibility into a market advantage.

Small businesses and community organizations that want to support people with disabilities can't figure out how to reach them. At the same time, people with disabilities can't find those organizations.

We are finishing up a web application that will fix this problem but we need funding to host it and allow it to scale. We are raising $10,000 to cover cloud hosting costs in 2024.

Accessible Community is an all volunteer non-profit and an ethical technology corporation. Every penny you donate (beyond the tip and transaction fee) will go to the hosting costs. Please consider donating to make our communities a more accessible for people with disabilities.

Help launch loca11y, organized by Rachael Montgomery At Accessible Community, we understand the challenges of living with a disability. We are buil… Rachael Montgomery needs your support for Help launch loca11y

Are you wondering how accessible your website or social media presence is? If the answer is yes and you are an organization with less than 20 full time employees, you can request an evaluation at https://www.ta11y.org/assessments/unassigned/new Log into ta11y using a gmail account, complete the organization information and our volunteers will asses your organization and email you a free report.

In partnership with Accessible Community and Knowbility, Teach Access invites you to join “Building the Business Case for Accessibility,” the first in a series of free Accessibility Workshops through Mutua11y.

Participants will come together to share ideas, lessons learned, and resources centered around in the business world.

Visit this site for more details and the link to register to join this free workshop, which takes place over Zoom on June 23 from 10:00 am -12:00 pm EST. https://www.mutua11y.org/2023/05/26/building-the-business-case-for-accessibility/

Accessible Community is offering a free weekly email tip to help small businesses and non-profits improve their reach to the disability community. Each tip is designed to be completed in a week. Somewhere between 19-30% of people have a disability so building inclusive business practices is time well spent. Sign up at https://accessiblecommunity.org/tip-of-the-week/

Introducing: Pathways!
An easy way to share and search for professional opportunities focused on accessibility. Check it out at mutua11y.org

Brian and Rachael are presenting at CSUN 2023. You can view the slides on Google or download the PowerPoint below. Accessible-Community-CSUN-2023Download

CSUN 2023 Presentation | Accessible Community Brian and Rachael are presenting at CSUN 2023. You can view the slides on Google or download the PowerPoint below. Accessible-Community-CSUN-2023Download…

Rachael gave a status update on WCAG 3 today at CSUN. The audience was awesome and had great questions. Slides from the presentation are below. CSUN-WCAG-3-d2Download

Status Update on WCAG 3 | Accessible Community Rachael gave a status update on WCAG 3 today at CSUN. The audience was awesome and had great questions. Slides from the presentation are below. CSUN-WCAG-3-d2Download…

•empowerment• •motivation• •accessibility for all•
These are just a few things that Accessible Community is working diligently to impact. In the coming months, we look forward to introducing tools that will increase accessibility worldwide- swipe to read all about them!

~if you are interested in volunteering with Accessible Community, please send us a message and we will find the right fit for you on our volunteer led team~

Wishing everyone a very happy 2023- we look forward to working with your community in the new year!
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Introduction This framework presents a way to create more engaging, educational trainings and courses on accessibility. It leverages research on education theory to help non-teachers create effective course content, whether that course is 10 minutes long or a week long. Framework Learning Goal: Sensory representations Teach facts Allow reflection Apply learning Goal...

Framework for teaching accessibility | Accessible Community This framework presents a way to create more engaging, educational trainings and courses on accessibility. It leverages research on education theory to help non-teachers create effective course…

We want to take a moment to thank the Coldwell Banker Cares who generously donated $1000 to support Accessible Community. We will use their donation, along with other funding, to hire an individual with a disability to reach out to organizations in Loudoun and Frederick Counties. The resulting database of disability-friendly organizations will be available in Ta11y.org.

https://accessiblecommunity.org/2022/04/28/thank-you-coldwell-banker-cares-foundation/

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