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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nGlobal Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)<\/a><\/u> is an event that is celebrated every year around the world and aims to raise awareness about the importance of digital accessibility in an increasingly diverse and inclusive society, leaving no one behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In GAAD 2019<\/a><\/u>, the TransMedia Catalonia opened the doors of its laboratory to the public to demonstrate the different accessibility services and modalities in which the group works. In GAAD 2020,<\/a><\/u> the research group contributed online in the form of a playlist of accessible videos explaining the group’s various projects with integrated audio description and captions. In GAAD 2021<\/a><\/u>, we offered an immersive accessibility showcase and launched the stable version of the MAP platform<\/u><\/a>. In GAAD 2022<\/a>, we offered three activities: we opened our lab, we launched new accessibility courses, and welcomed more than 60 children to the university for an accessibility-related activity. In GAAD 2023<\/a>, an online seminar on digital accessibility and sustainability was hosted, alongside the introduction of Xarxa AccessCat (Xarxa d’Innovaci\u00f3 en Accessibilitat de Catalunya: Mitjans, Educaci\u00f3 i Cultura), a network aiming to connect universities, companies, and society as a reference point for accessibility in Catalonia. In GAAD 2024<\/a>, we offered five activities: a workshop for staff from the Government of Catalonia\u2019s departments and public sector organisations, a webinar called \u201cEnsuring an Inclusive & Accessible Green Transition\u201d, a talk on AI and human creativity delivered by Fernanda Rocha and Jon Black, an internal meeting with the AccessCat Network, and a showcase with students who participated in the CROMA project (FAS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n TransMedia Catalonia conducts standardisation work in the following national and international agencies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n TransMedia Catalonia members have also been involved in the following committees in the past:<\/p>\n\n\n\n TransMedia Catalonia has cooperated with Liceu’s Opera House<\/a> <\/strong><\/u>in providing audio described opera performances and carrying out related research (see, for instance, Orero & Matamala 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/u>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serious games have been developed in cooperation with the industry, such as Laia.cat<\/a><\/u>,<\/strong> an educational game for teenagers where the videogame tries to teach behaviours in equality environments like couples, colleagues and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Complementary tool for the cognitive evaluation of workers with cognitive impairments (C\u00e1tedra INDRA<\/a> <\/strong><\/u>de Tecnolog\u00edas Accesibles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n TransMedia Catalonia members participate actively in various knowledge transfer activities: GAAD \u2013 Global Accessibility Awareness Day Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is an event that is celebrated every year around the world and aims to raise awareness about the importance of digital accessibility in an increasingly diverse and inclusive society, leaving no one behind. In GAAD 2019, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/transmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/transmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/transmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/transmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/transmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/transmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/transmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/transmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Standardisation committees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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