Is your organisation doing enough for Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2025?

Coming soon: the 14th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) takes place on Thursday, 15 May 2025. 

GAAD drives accessibility focus

GAAD offers a great opportunity to promote digital accessibility and inclusion within your organisation, and get people thinking about how tech can help transform the lives of disabled people. 

Perhaps you're an accessibility champion trying to get your senior team to understand the importance of accessibility and need help to drive action? GAAD provides a focus for all.

Here are 4 resources to help you participate in GAAD 2025:

1. Business Case for Accessibility - download your free guide to help you to win hearts and minds 
2. Disability Awareness Factsheet - educate your team with AbilityNet's free online guide
3. Disability Awareness Training - increase your disability confidence with training for you and your teams
4. Book an engaging talk - inspire your team with an AbilityNet speaker

1. Business Case for Accessibility

By making your digital products and services accessible, you enhance user experience, boost conversions and build trust. No matter the size or type of your organisation it's the right thing to do and also helps your bottom line.

Use this free guide to highlight to your senior team how Google, Business Disability Forum, Accenture and others have prioritised digital accessibility for distinct strategic advantage.

Download your Business Case for Accessibility

2. Disability Awareness Factsheet

Is the term 'disability awareness' properly understood within your organisation? Download a bitesize introduction to what you need to know about disability awareness.

Along with information about the different types and models of disability, use our factsheet to learn about disability rights information and language guidelines. 

Share the resource with your colleagues in advance of GAAD.

Get your factsheet

3. Disability Awareness Training

• "Being able to listen to lived experiences of people was the most valuable for me, as it is only so much you can learn from theory and books."
• "The panellists speaking about their lived experience was incredibly helpful and informative."

Attendees of our training consistently note the value and impact of learning about the lived experience of disability from our trainers.

Help your teams to connect with the needs of your customers (and colleagues): Choose from flexible training options including face-to-face workshops, online webinars and self-paced eLearning modules. From neurodiversity in the workplace to PDF Accessibility get role-specific training including for HR professionals and line managers.

Arrange Disability Awareness Training for your team to teach your staff about important accessibility and inclusion topics, learn language dos and don'ts, and receive practical advice to avoid creating unnecessary barriers for disabled employees and customers.

Together, we can all help to create a digital world accessible to all.

Book Disability Awareness training

4. Inspire your colleagues with a speaker session

AbilityNet's expert speakers have lived experience of disability and can talk with enthusiasm and authority to inspire your teams. Book an engaging speaker to train your staff on a variety of topics, for both GAAD and beyond.

Energise your staff

...and a bonus 5. for higher education professionals:

AbilityNet is a proud supporter of the ALT Digital Accessibility SIG (Special Interest Group), who are hosting a webinar on Thursday 15th May, 2-3pm BST. Join a panel of contributors representing a number of Universities to discuss critical digital accessibility success factors, based on their higher education (HE) sector experiences:

Register for the GAAD HE webinar

Further resources

• Visit the GAAD website for more info
• Help disabled and older people in your community: Become an AbilityNet volunteer
• Learn about our free resources
• Sign up to our newsletter to find out about our upcoming webinars and events