Awareness-raising Activities

Activities organised by researchers in the network in order to spread their knowledge on accessibility to society. The goal is to raise awareness on how important it is for everyone to have access to communication and information, as well as to offer innovative solutions.

Activity open to the general public

  • Day:
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  • Place:

    Barcelona

The +RAIN Film Festival returns, dedicated to films created using artificial intelligence. It is a meeting space for research, creativity and critical thinking that explores the role of AI and the transformation of audiovisual media and digital culture. This year, the TraDiLex research group is taking part with talks on accessibility and AI, as well as the parallel event TRANSLATE+RAIN.

Past Activities

Activity open to the general public

  • Day:
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  • Time:
    17:00
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    20:00
  • Place:

    Virtual

For this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), the GRIHO group (UdL) is organising an online conference to learn about people, design, web development, evaluation and artificial intelligence in the field of digital accessibility.

Activity open to the general public

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  • Time:
    11:00
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    12:30
  • Place:

    Online

For this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), the TransMedia Catalonia group (UAB) hosts an online workshop that delves into the European acts on accessibility and AI and how they overlap.

  • Day:
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  • Time:
    11:30
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    13:00
  • Place:

    INDIBA, Sant Quirze del Vallès

For this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), the affiliated entity INDIBA is organising a conference for company staff on communicative accessibility in the workplace. The event will feature Blanca Arias, Marta Brescia and Clara Anush del Rey, researchers from TraDiLex (UPF), as expert speakers.

  • Day:
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  • Time:
    10:00
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    13:45
  • Place:

    Barcelona

For this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), the Directorate-General for Digital Services and Citizen Experience (DGSEC) is organising a conference focused on web accessibility. It will feature the participation of researchers Mireia Ribera, from the Grup d’Intel·ligència Artificial i Data Science (UB), and Estel·la Oncins, from TransMedia Catalonia (UAB). Affiliated organisations TothomWeb and ACAPPS will also take part.