UW GAAD 2025
Each year, the UW commemorates GAAD by offering a day of lectures, workshops, and other activities related to digital accessibility. In 2025, we will be celebrating with a hybrid event, in person and on Zoom.
UW GAAD 2025 is is co-organized by UW-IT Accessible Technology Services, CREATE, and UW Center for Learning, Computing, and Imagination. Sessions are free and open to the UW community, but registration is required.
Register for daytime sessions. Register for evening book talk.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: HUB 250 and virtual via Zoom (plus evening activity in Gates CSE2). Accessibility Contact: Susie Hawkey, shawkey@uw.edu, 206-543-6504. Event Types: Special Events.
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM.
UW Web Accessibility and Usability Meetup
These monthly meetups, formerly known as “Explore with Hadi” provide an opportunity for UW web developers and designers to discuss accessibility and usability issues in a relaxed, casual setting, and provide friendly feedback on each others’ web projects. We encourage you to bring your accessibility questions or just join us to see what others are working on. Meetings are hosted by Hadi Rangin, a web accessibility specialist with UW-IT Accessible Technology Services. Hadi has a Master’s degree in computer science and is a screen reader user himself, so these meetings are great opportunities to experience how your website might be experienced by someone using assistive technology.
Meetups are typically held on the 4th Tuesday of each month, 11:00am – Noon. The agenda and Zoom URL are announced a few days prior to the event on the AccessibleWeb@U email list (see below for details about the list). If you would like to attend and are not a subscriber to this list, please contact us by sending an email to …
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Hadi Rangin. Event Types: Meetings.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
UW Instruction Accessibility Meetup
Faculty and course designers are invited to join Mary-Colleen Jenkins, Instruction Accessibility Specialist, for an informal and friendly conversation about making online components of your courses accessible to students with disabilities.
Meetings are open to faculty and course designers in the UW community but require registration. Register for the June 3rd meetup to receive the Zoom link.
This month's topic is Ally Course Accessibility Report: Friend or Foe? In this guided work session, we'll take a look at the Ally Course Accessibility Report in Canvas. Ally Course Accessibility Report results can feel overwhelming, so we'll walk through a sample report together. We won't share specifics, but there will be time for you to look at your own Ally Course Report and to ask questions in this supportive setting.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Mary-Colleen Jenkins. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
UW Web Accessibility and Usability Meetup
These monthly meetups, formerly known as “Explore with Hadi” provide an opportunity for UW web developers and designers to discuss accessibility and usability issues in a relaxed, casual setting, and provide friendly feedback on each others’ web projects. We encourage you to bring your accessibility questions or just join us to see what others are working on. Meetings are hosted by Hadi Rangin, a web accessibility specialist with UW-IT Accessible Technology Services. Hadi has a Master’s degree in computer science and is a screen reader user himself, so these meetings are great opportunities to experience how your website might be experienced by someone using assistive technology.
Meetups are typically held on the 4th Tuesday of each month, 11:00am – Noon. The agenda and Zoom URL are announced a few days prior to the event on the AccessibleWeb@U email list (see below for details about the list). If you would like to attend and are not a subscriber to this list, please contact us by sending an email to …
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Hadi Rangin. Event Types: Meetings.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
UW Instruction Accessibility Meetup
Faculty and course designers are invited to join Mary-Colleen Jenkins, Instruction Accessibility Specialist, for an informal and friendly conversation about making online components of your courses accessible to students with disabilities.
Meetings are open to faculty and course designers in the UW community but require registration. Register for the July 1st meetup to receive the Zoom link.
This month's topic is Summer Series for Instructional Support Partners: Collaborative Accessibility Problem-solving Sessions. Opportunity to network with partners across the UW system and to talk together about how we can support faculty in their accessibility efforts in the coming academic year.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Mary-Colleen Jenkins. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
UW Web Accessibility and Usability Meetup
These monthly meetups, formerly known as “Explore with Hadi” provide an opportunity for UW web developers and designers to discuss accessibility and usability issues in a relaxed, casual setting, and provide friendly feedback on each others’ web projects. We encourage you to bring your accessibility questions or just join us to see what others are working on. Meetings are hosted by Hadi Rangin, a web accessibility specialist with UW-IT Accessible Technology Services. Hadi has a Master’s degree in computer science and is a screen reader user himself, so these meetings are great opportunities to experience how your website might be experienced by someone using assistive technology.
Meetups are typically held on the 4th Tuesday of each month, 11:00am – Noon. The agenda and Zoom URL are announced a few days prior to the event on the AccessibleWeb@U email list (see below for details about the list). If you would like to attend and are not a subscriber to this list, please contact us by sending an email to …
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Hadi Rangin. Event Types: Meetings.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
UW Instruction Accessibility Meetup
Faculty and course designers are invited to join Mary-Colleen Jenkins, Instruction Accessibility Specialist, for an informal and friendly conversation about making online components of your courses accessible to students with disabilities.
Meetings are open to faculty and course designers in the UW community but require registration. Register for the August 5th meetup to receive the Zoom link.
This month's topic is Summer Series for Instructional Support Partners: Collaborative Accessibility Problem-solving Sessions. Opportunity to network with partners across the UW system and to talk together about how we can support faculty in their accessibility efforts in the coming academic year.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Mary-Colleen Jenkins. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Tuesday, August 5, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.