Rakhi, which is also referred to as Raksha Bandhan, is a Hindu Indian festival recognizing the bonds of love between brothers and sisters. The bond is shown by sisters tying a Rakhi (talisman or amulet) around their brother's wrist to protect them. Brothers provide a gift in exchange and become stewards of their sisters' security.
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Veteran’s Day 2022 is observed on Friday, November 11. In recognition of this important day, the UMass President’s Office DEIA Team hosted a speaker program on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Our panelists were two distinguished Marine Corps veterans who have dedicated their careers to helping other veterans:, Thomas Lyons, is the founder of the South Boston Vietnam Memorial Committee, a non-profit organization that erected one of the first community-based Vietnam Memorials in the country. He is the former Executive Director of the New England Home for Homeless Veterans and is a recipient of the UMass Boston Robert Quinn Award for Outstanding Community Leadership. Tom is a Marine Corp Veteran and served in Vietnam…, Patrick George, is the Director of Veterans’ Services for the Town of Watertown. He is also the president of the Massachusetts Veterans’ Services Officers Association, the state-wide organization of veterans’ services officers. Patrick is a Marine Corps Veteran and served from 2007-2012 on Marine Corps Base Hawaii. He served two deployments in Afghanistan. The panelists discussed their own personal experiences…
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Alexa Heinrich, the maintainer of Accessible Social, has made her Accessible Social Video Lesson available for free online for those who don't have the budget or time to bring her in as a speaker. The video lesson includes both captions and a full transcript.
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Registration and the call for speakers is official open for axe-con 2023 , which will happen on March 15 and 16, 2023. Axe-con is the world’s largest digital accessibility conference that welcomes developers, designers, business users, and accessibility professionals of all experience levels to an accessibility conference focused on building, testing, and maintaining accessible digital…
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) is a free 24-hour online event for the global community. It celebrates inclusive design and shares knowledge and ideas from analogue to digital, from design to development, from planners to practitioners, and everything and everyone in between. Some of the sessions that will be offered: Beyond 99 Red Balloons - A Pragmatic guide to alternative text How Project…, How to join, No sign-up. No registration. All sessions are streamed live and publicly on the Inclusive Design 24 YouTube channel – see the entire playlist for the event . Live captions for each session will be available. Have a question for a presenter? No problem! Tweet your questions to @id24conf using the #id24 hashtag and our moderators will make sure they get them answered for you.
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Disability rights activity, writer, and speaker Emily Ladau has released her first book, Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally . This practical, intersectional guide offers all readers a welcoming place to understand disability as part of the human experience., About the book, People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But many of us—disabled and nondisabled alike—don’t know how to act, what to say, or how to be an ally to the disability community. Demystifying Disability is a friendly handbook on the important disability issues you need to know about, including: How to appropriately think, talk, and…, How to purchase the book, This book is available in various print, audio, and digital formats at Penguin Random House .
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The Digital Experience team has launched a new Provide Inclusive Meetings and Events page on the Inclusive by Design site. This page can be found in the How to Create an Inclusive Experience section of the site. The goal of the page is to provide presenters and event coordinators with general guidelines on how to ensure meetings and events are disability inclusive, including how to create…
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axe-con is an open and inclusive digital accessibility conference that welcomes developers, designers, business users, and accessibility professionals of all experience levels to a new kind of accessibility conference focused on building, testing, and maintaining accessible digital experiences. The conference will be held virtually Tuesday, March 15 through Thursday, March 17th, 2022. You can…
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Teach Access has launched the latest iteration of the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit on GitHub. The move to GitHub will allow us to post translations of the job positions and interview questions going forward. The goal of the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit is to help organizations build internal capacity for producing accessible digital products by developing a knowledgeable and…
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Dear Colleagues, I am writing to inform you that I, in consultation with the Senior Leadership Team, have decided that all Office of the President employees will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. I firmly believe that all 75,000 students and 24,000 employees of the University of Massachusetts need to be vaccinated. Our campuses are in active negotiations with their unionized…
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