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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Happy GAAD my dear CATO peeps! Below is the announcement I sent to our agency today. Thought you might have fun looking through the content. How</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"> are you celebrating GAAD?</span><br>
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<p style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; margin:0px"><b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(0, 32, 96);">Monica M. Olsson (she/her/hers)</span></b></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Monica Olsson <molsson@sbctc.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 19, 2022 2:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> SBCTC All Staff <SBCTCAllStaff@sbctc.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Monica Olsson <molsson@sbctc.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Read more to earn a prize!</font>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Today is the 11th anniversary of</span><a href="https://accessibility.day/"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#1155cc; font-weight:700; text-decoration:underline"> Global
Accessibility Awareness Day, or GAAD!</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Have you heard of it before?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">The purpose of this day is to increase disability awareness, to inspire conversations about digital/web accessibility, and the inclusion of people with disabilities.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">What is Web Accessibility?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Web accessibility means that websites, apps, digital tools, and content are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them. More specifically,
people with disabilities can:</span></p>
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<span>Perceive, Understand, Navigate, and Interact with the Web; and </span></p>
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<span>Contribute to the Web</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">If you want to keep learning, check out this 4-minute video produced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C):
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20SHvU2PKsM"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#1155cc; font-weight:700; text-decoration:underline">Introduction to Web Accessibility and Standards</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:700">.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">What is SBCTC doing today?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Marilyn Varela, Greg Gamble, and I will deliver a Web Accessibility 101 training to SBCTC web developers and content managers. We have over 20 people registered!
A guest presenter will join us to deliver a live demo of his screen reader navigating web content. Missed signing up? Don’t worry! The training will be recorded and shared internally on Staffnet.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">What can you do to celebrate?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">I am glad you asked, dear readers. Today is the perfect to sign up for the
</span><a href="https://sbctc.badgr.com/public/issuers/k1IJMhPyRGOf-AsGWnlJmg/pathways"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#1155cc; font-weight:700; text-decoration:underline">Accessibility Micro Courses</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400"> and
earn your </span><a href="https://sbctc.badgr.com/public/pathway/5c6de118c949480e7545be09"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#1155cc; font-weight:700; text-decoration:underline">Accessibility Proponent Badge!</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">You can also view the content of these courses via the public facing SBCTC
</span><a href="https://sbctc.instructure.com/courses/1578604/"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#1155cc; font-weight:700; text-decoration:underline">Library of Accessibility Resources.</span></a></p>
<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Use your voice!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">You can help advocate for advancing disability civil rights. The U.S. Department of Education announced its intent to strengthen and protect rights for Students
with Disabilities by amending regulations Implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400; font-style:italic">“The Department’s Section 504 regulations were the first issued by the federal government that addressed the treatment of people with disabilities
through a civil rights framework, rather than through solely a medical or vocational framework. In the years that followed, these regulations served as a model for the regulations of other federal agencies and were the foundation for many of the provisions
of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.”</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400"> (</span><a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USED/bulletins/3168169"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#1155cc; font-weight:700; text-decoration:underline">May
6th, 2022, U.S. Department of Education press release.)</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:700">Learn more about
</span><a href="https://www2.ed.gov/policy/rights/reg/ocr/index.html?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term="><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#1155cc; font-weight:700; text-decoration:underline">how
to submit your public comments</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:700"> and strengthen protections for students with disabilities. Submit comments to:
</span><a href="mailto:Section504@ed.gov"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#1155cc; font-weight:700; text-decoration:underline">Section504@ed.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:700"> by
June 2022!</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Read this article written by WebAIM titled,
</span><a href="https://webaim.org/intro/"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#1155cc; font-weight:700; text-decoration:underline">Introduction to Web Accessibility.</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400"> The
first person from our agency to email me with the correct answers for 2 out of the 3 questions below will receive a cup of coffee on me and win a cute little surprise! Email Monica at:
</span><a href="mailto:molsson@sbctc.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#1155cc; font-weight:700; text-decoration:underline">molsson@sbctc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:700"> </span></p>
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<span>What does POUR stand for?</span></p>
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<span>What does a “Skip to Main Content, or “Skip Navigation” allow a user to do on a web page?</span></p>
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<span>What are the four main disability categories mentioned in the article?</span></p>
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