About
GREAAT supports networking and community building for accessibility researchers, educators, practitioners, students, and advocates across disciplines, sectors, and regions. Accessibility work is often distributed, under‑resourced, or carried out by individuals working in isolation, making it difficult to coordinate efforts, share lessons learned, and sustain long‑term impact. This theme focuses on strengthening connections and collective capacity within the global accessibility community.
Through community meetings, networking events, mentorship, and peer‑support structures, GREAAT creates opportunities for knowledge exchange and relationship‑building. These activities support learning across areas such as accessibility research practice, ethics, policy and standards, community partnerships, and lived experience, while welcoming diverse methodological, cultural, and geographic perspectives.
The initiative also prioritises supporting students, early‑career researchers, and those new to accessibility work. By fostering connections across academia, industry, public services, non‑profits, and disabled communities—locally and internationally—GREAAT seeks to reduce isolation, surface shared challenges, and enable collaborative pathways that strengthen accessibility work as a sustained, community‑driven effort.
Theme Leads
Jonathan Lazar, University of Maryland
Karyn Moffatt, McGill University
Members List
David Flatla, University of Guelph
Jasie Sin, Carleton University
Timothy Neate, King’s College London
