Our first accessibility ribbon was announced back in 2015, at the University of Toronto, while presenting at their annual 2 day Information Technology conference in May 2015. They hosted David Berman who spoke as part of a special AODA Discussion Panel at TechKnowFile (#TKF15) on achieving accessibility without trade-offs. He announced the new Berman Accessibility Ribbon for Word in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), and so it began…
Since then, every year we’ve announce a new ribbon language! French, Danish, Simplified Chinese… we’re taking requests for which languages are joining us for GAAD this year (it’s coming up on the third Thursday this May)!