Get involved
Excited about accessibility and want to get more involved? Find accessibility communities, programs, projects, and events making an impact at Google and beyond.
AAA Scholar Program
The Alphabet Accessibility Academy Scholar Program offers role-specific advanced education, from intermediate to professor level. Accessibility Professors make an annual commitment to teach others about accessibility, advance accessibility in their product area, and support the broader accessibility community.20% projects
20% projects are a great way to contribute to accessibility at Google. Browse projects that focus on accessibility in Grow, and create a job alert if you'd like to receive notifications about new 20% opportunities.Accessibility Events
To stay updated on conferences and events, check out go/a11y-events. For event-related questions, email accessibility-events@google.com.Communities and ERGs
You can get in touch with and join specific accessibility communities at Google through a number of employee resource groups and communities.Accessibility Discuss
Accessibility Discuss (accessibility-discuss@) is an internal list of people who are accessibility users, work on accessibility, and/or care deeply about accessibility. This is a good option for non-technical questions within and outside of the tech org.Colorblind
Colorblind (colorblind@) is a forum to bring together color blind Googlers with Googlers who are designing products that should look good for people with color blindness.Deafglers
Deafglers (deafglers@) is a community of Googlers who are deaf or hard of hearing, or motivated to create accessible products. Learn more about Deaf culture with the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) Community & Culture.Disability Alliance
The Disability Alliance (da@) is a large alias of Googlers with accessibility needs and/or general disability advocates. You can find more information on the DA website.Disability Alliance - Brazil
da-br@: The Disability Alliance Brazil is an ERG for Googlers who care about disability, learning differences, or neurodiversity and want to learn and contribute in advancing diversity, accessibility and inclusion for our community and everyone.Google Accessibility to Everyone - Japan
Google Accessibility to Everyone - Japan (gate-jp@) is an ERG in Japan, focused on accessibility & inclusiveness in both our products and our working environment. Find more information on their website go/gate-jp.Screen reader Users
Screen Reader Users (screenreader-users@) is a list to share tips & best practices and ask questions about screen reader use at Google.External engagements
Google works with accessibility and disability advocacy organizations, training centers, rehabilitation centers, schools, universities, companies, and governments. Find the full list of external engagements on the relationship tracker at go/accessibility-relationships.
If you work with a specific accessibility or disability organization, or if someone has reached out to you about working with Google on an inclusion initiative, you can fill out the external engagement request form.
To help evaluate potential external engagements, contact:
- EMEA: patnoe@google.com
- NA: ahauerslev@google.com
- LATAM: bbarlach@google.com
- Emerging Markets: basson@google.com
For guidance on addressing external and internal audience when sharing accessibility-related content, we have a number of resources to support you.