Please mark 17 May 2018 to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day! #gbla11yday
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is an awareness day, focusing on accessibility, often emphasising on web accessibility. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)
Apple has a tremendous initiative of hosting the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) in their Retail stores and offices around the world. It organises its series of events to raise awareness, to educate public on accessibility, and to host invited guests from the PWD community to share their stories/experiences at the Apple Apple Orchard Retail store (270 Orchard Road). #todayatapple #appleorchardroad
Details as follows:
Date: Friday, 18 May
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Lily Goh is the founder of ExtraOrdinary Horizons, a social enterprise that teaches sign language and provides public services. Lily is a seasoned artist who performs song-signing and mallet percussion.
To register: https://www.apple.com/…/music-lab-lily-goh-6400782977525515…
Date: Sunday May 20
Live Art: Figures and Caricatures with Isaac Liang
Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Join deaf illustrator Isaac Liang for Global Accessibility Awareness Day and learn about his journey around the world, sketching and painting with iPad Pro. He’ll share the fundamentals of figure drawing. Then you’ll get hands-on with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using lines and colour to create your own caricatures. The session will be facilitated by a sign language interpreter.
To register: https://www.apple.com/…/live-art-isaac-liang-6398202376968…/
Interested to know more about Apple products? Do check out the schedules below:
Date: Tuesday May 15
Basics: Using iPad and iPhone with Hearing Loss
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
To register: https://www.apple.com/…/using-ipad-and-iphone-with-hearing…/
Date: Friday May 18
Basics: Using iPad and iPhone with Hearing Loss
Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm
To register: https://www.apple.com/…/using-ipad-and-iphone-with-hearing…/
Date: Sunday May 20
Basics: Using iPad and iPhone with Hearing Loss
Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
To register: https://www.apple.com/…/using-ipad-and-iphone-with-hearing…/
For the full line-up of GAAD events at the Apple Orchard Retail store, you can check them out at this link: https://www.apple.com/…/collection/accessibility-collection/
ExtraOrdinary Horizons 