Digital accessibility is a civil right of people with disabilities. The law in the United States, and increasingly around the world, provides a strong framework supporting digital inclusion for disabled people in the public and private sectors, in education, and throughout society. Join Lainey Feingold for a fast-paced overview of what is happening in the legal space — the good and the not-so-good. Whatever your role in the accessibility world, this session will help you "put the law in your pocket" to protect and advance the rights of disabled people to participate in the digital world.
Presenter: Lainey Feingold, Attorney
Accessibility is one pillar of the hyflex (hybrid) approach. But what does that mean, and how do you implement it? We'll review what we learned prior to our hyflex pilot, the steps we took to improve accessibility when combining in-person with online participants, and lessons learned from our first semester.
Presenters: Kathryn Tipton, CSU Northridge
Van Nguyen, CSU Northridge
This session explains types of cognitive disabilities and their prevalence. A variety of goals and techniques are presented to help make your digital designs more inclusive and accessible particularly for users with a cognitive disability. Goals discussed include helping users find what they need, understand content, and maintain focus.
Presenter: Dennis Lembree, Diamond
The Freedom Scientific Student of the Month program, celebrates individual achievement of students' who are blind or low vision! Meet the extraordinary Students we've featured!
Presenter: Mike Wood, Vispero
The journey of inclusive products begins with inclusive design. Get insights into how your designs could say all that is needed to make the experiences more accessible and usable by embracing the principles of universal design and building a process with enough room to innovate involving real users.
Presenters: Ajay Sharma, HCL America Inc.
Zariah Gaelyn-Levai, HCL America Inc.
In today's world of learning, uncertainty is the only thing that is certain. In this session, participants will learn how to create and share digital STEM content and make sure it's accessible for a diverse range of learners in the classroom, at home, or anywhere in between.
Presenter: Louis Shanafelt, Texthelp
We investigate how an outdoors visual navigation system can be built on smartglasses, present its computing requisites and highlight the main problems involved.
Presenter: Renato Busatto, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
The browser extension and script provide keyboard navigation to landmark regions and headings on any web page. They give keyboard-only users, and web developers a powerful alternative to the simple "Skip To Main" link often used to implement the "Bypass Blocks of Content" requirement of WCAG.
Presenter: Jon Gunderson, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Making web content/documents accessible, along with the web structure itself, is not only a nice thing to do but a necessity and, in many places, required by law. We will discuss how simple it is to achieve, and maintain website document compliance via a find, test, fix approach.
Presenter: Scott Baker, Crawford Technologies
Typing Club, universally designed for all. Low vision options. IPEVO video magnifier. ChromeVox frequently used commands, configuring ChromeVox, Google Drive for OCR, files, and folders, obtaining a Braille file from a Google Doc & more. VoiceTyping. Chrome, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Drive, Gmail, & Slides with ChromeVox.
Presenter: Bruce McClanahan, WA State School for the Blind
We will share the work done on our Branding Guidelines, including important resources and components meant for the accessible implementation of colors and complex widgets.
Presenter: Jay Nemchik, Elsevier
Mental health is the single largest cause of disabilities in the world and yet, it was never properly addressed in digital accessibility field. Until now. This presentation will cover the topics of digital accessibility for users with mental health disorders such as ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, OCD, and PTSD.
Presenter: Albert Kim, ServiceNow
What are the barriers people with different levels of sight loss (mild, moderate, severe) experience in playing games on various consoles and platforms? Findings will be presented from RNIB's Accessible Gaming Research and the differential experiences of blind and partially sighted people.
Presenters: Sonali Rai, Royal National Institute of Blind People
Alison Long, Royal National Institute of Blind People
Robin Mackenzie Spinks, RNIB
Your browser contains great tools that help you check you're providing the information and functionality assistive technologies need to support your users. They can also help you diagnose problems. We'll explore how these tools can help you learn through immediate feedback, and address key challenges such as good labelling.
Presenter: Matthew Atkinson, TPGi
This presenters in this session will discuss how they have approached accessible document implementation from a transaction output and static document perspective. There are many areas to consider, including the archive, composition, post-composition remediation, compound documents, and websites.
Presenter: Dennis Quon, Crawford Technologies
This presentation will define web accessibility and discuss how it benefits individuals with disabilities. Attendees will learn three reasons why web accessibility should be a priority for their organization or business. In addition, they will learn how to become accessibility champions and how they can help make accessibility a priority.
Presenter: Keith Bundy, Siteimprove, Inc.
This session reviews common limitations and shortcomings of exporting accessible documents from Microsoft Word and how to easily overcome them using techniques in Adobe Acrobat and in the source file using axesWord.
Presenters: Dax Castro, AbleDocs
Chad Chelius, AbleDocs
Imagine a future where you could ask questions about your surroundings and a Visual AI Assistant answers them effortlessly for you. It's not sci-fi. This session will introduce to all the AI advances happening today that will bring in visual assistants into a reality much sooner than you think.
Presenter: Karthik Kannan, Envision
For a long time, we've assumed that captions and interactive transcripts improve learning - but now there's data to prove it. This session will dive into the latest quantitative research on how video accessibility improves learning outcomes.
Presenter: Lily Bond, 3Play Media
We have developed waveOut, an intuitive 3D audio augmented reality application for intuitive navigation without looking at a map. We will present the results of our latest user testing where blind and visually impaired users went to real-world destinations solely using our app.
Presenter: Hugo Furtado, Dreamwaves
This session will show individuals with little to no 3D printing experience how to print a custom tactile map, complete with braille markings, for their own campus or location.
Presenter: Kevin Cleppe, CSUSB
Due to COVID 19, education and work environments have changed the structure, delivery, and technology used to support daily activity especially for the visually impaired. The insideONE Braille computer with an embedded braille display and a keyboard is the ultimate tool to become proficient in Braille and learn Microsoft applications.
Presenters: Chris Nova, Insidevision Inc
Kim Nova, Insidevision Inc
In this session, we will discuss, and demonstrate, how using the right PDF remediation tool, one that is GUI driven and intuitive, can make a world of difference in the overall process. We will also show a comparison between a complex and a next-generation PDF remediation tool.
Presenters: Aimée Ubbink, Crawford Technologies
Karol Krzywon, Crawford Technologies
Mackenzie Banks, Crawford Technologies
CGI will take you on a deep dive of WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 4.1.3: Status Messages for communicating dynamic changes within web content. CGI will explain what this success criterion covers, who benefits from it, when status messages are needed, and how to implement them using ARIA markup.
Presenter: Elizabeth Whitmer, CGI
This paper presents the findings from interviews with digital accessibility practitioners in the technology industry from the author's unpublished dissertation at the University of Oxford.
Presenter: Dana Frayne, Oxford Internet Institute at University of Oxford
Power Point Presentation and Live Demonstration of the latest and greatest Windows Screen Magnification Technology with Fusion and ZoomText 2022. Plenty of opportunity for Questions and Answers.
Presenter: Eric Damery, Vispero
With an uptick in online ordering of food, whether grocery or restaurant during the pandemic, has accessibility been factored in? Online ordering has long been an accommodation for people with disabilities, but has the growing usage included all its users?
Presenters: Sharon Rosenblatt, Accessibility Partners
Dana Marlowe, Accessibility Partners
Please join us as we present family perspectives of our experiences with AT/AAC challenges and celebrations, such as the lack of AAC normed cognitive assessments. Attendees will learn strategies to successfully incorporate AT/AAC into school and community settings.
Presenters: Jennifer Mendenhall
Codi Mendenhall
Participants will understand what an organization needs to build an inclusive and accessible culture. Define what types of documents are in an enterprise and test them. Best practices to tackle a critical part of making a document accessible. Tools that may be used to reach this goal.
Presenter: Aimée Ubbink, Crawford Technologies
Prototypes of augmented tactile books, embedding electronic sensors and components within book pages, based on works on psychology of sensory-motor system.
Presenter: Dominique Archambault, Université Paris 8
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected healthcare access for people with disabilities and emphasized existing challenges. This presentation will share how understanding those challenges informed design while working on accessibility for CVS Health's COVID-19 vaccine scheduling tool.
Presenter: Nora Hanlon, CVS Health
Employers are increasingly using XR technologies to attract diverse talent, improve job training, and enhance collaboration as organizations adopt hybrid workplace policies. This session will explore how accessible XR can help them advance DEI and Accessibility (DEIA), gain an edge in a tight labor market, and create a compelling workplace
Presenters: Bill Curtis-Davidson, Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT)
Ashley Coffey, Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT)
Stephanie Montgomery, XR Association
Providing a full explanation of licensing options for large organization/agencies, Universities, or for home users deciding on the best approach at the best prices. Bring your questions and consider solutions that will expand your licenses to all staff or students at home for no cost.
Presenters: Eric Damery, Vispero
Douglas Gerry, Vispero
3D models offer exciting opportunities for universal design in STEAM education. Given the promise of multimedia accessibility, how can blind and low vision individuals be more active in designing, producing, and engaging with 3D printing processes? Join us to explore the 3Ps of 3D printing: Perception, Pedagogy, and Practice!
Presenters: Chancey Fleet, New York Public Library
Yue-Ting Siu, San Francisco State University
Charity Pitcher-Cooper, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
The session will show how the Code Factory Cloud Reader SAPI interface brings human-like speech capabilities to content generation tools that use SAPI voices in Windows.
Presenter: Ferran Gállego, Code Factory SL
This session explores complex table presentations that use color as a primary means of communicating information.
Presenter: Chad Chelius, AbleDocs
Dive into the IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker (formerly RPT/DAP). This tool will help you get your web application from inaccessible to accessible. It's now open-source, with free extensions for Firefox and Chrome. This tool with robust ARIA/ACT support will help both developers and auditors become accessibility experts.
Presenters: Josiah Hoskins, IBM Accessibility
Ali Unwala, IBM Accessibility
Phill Jenkins, IBM Accessibility
The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate various ways in which users of screen readers browse the web. Content creators will learn about things they can do to make the browsing experience more enjoyable for users who are blind or who have significant visual impairments.
Presenter: Keith Bundy, Siteimprove, Inc.
The process of teaching a blind student how to code can pose significant challenges. This presentation will demonstrate how to use accessible tools to introduce coding concepts and provide attendees with accessible methods by which one can write and edit code using a refreshable braille device.
Presenters: Andrew Flatres, HumanWare USA
Peter Tucic, HumanWare USA
Join this educational session to review higher education facilities' challenges to ensure online content and student course materials meet the ADA, AODA & Section 508 accessibility standards. The team will share ways to make online content accessible and usable for everyone, including students, who need alternate formats for classwork.
Presenters: Glenn Gross, Crawford Technologies
Doug Koppenhofer, Crawford Technologies
Goldilocks and the Three Bears is a well-known English fairy tale. Selecting an electronic magnifier leaves no time for a random "just right" search. Criteria should include various models available from handheld to desktop and the recognition that the same criteria may have different priorities based upon individual needs.
Presenters: Roger Steinberg, HumanWare
Eric Beauchamp, HumanWare
This session will provide detailed knowledge through demonstration and an electronic handout of key accessibility features built-in to Windows 10 and Microsoft Office for people who are blind or low vision, neurodiverse, or experience motor difficulties.
Presenter: Harris Rosensweig, iYellow Access
WCAG is our common denominator, but user needs go beyond WCAG for many kinds of digital products (ICT). Understand how other regulations and standards, such as Section 508 and EN 301 549, add more specific requirements for websites, documents, apps, hardware devices, and particular product functions.
Presenter: Mitchell Evan, TPGi
This presentation explains how expanding everyone's understanding of investigating and using tools may help improve AT success. We'll discuss how to enhance your decision-making skills, how to research and test tools to determine if they meet a requirement, and why an expert isn't always required.
Presenter: Priscilla Danielson, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions
This paper examines video gaming trends over time for people with disabilities using survey data to understand patterns across disability types and demographic groups.
Presenter: John Morris, Shepherd Center
There is often confusion between what tools to use for automated and manual document remediation. In this session, we will discuss, and demonstrate, two of these tools showing that using the right tool can make the process easy and efficient.
Presenters: Scott Baker, Crawford Technologies
Karol Krzywon, Crawford Technologies
The APH Mantis Q40 & APH Chameleon 20 are excellent educational tools used nationwide. Learn how to use the native apps in these devices, Editor, Terminal, Library, File Manager, and Calculator. Download and read books. Learn how to use these devices with Windows/JAWS, Chromebooks, and iPads.
Presenters: Bruce McClanahan, WA State School for the Blind
Leslie Weilbacher, American Printing House for the Blind
The session showcases how the AI and sensors being built today for autonomous cars will be adopted to help blind and visually-impaired people get from point A to point B independently. Using accessible AR and inbuilt sensors on wearables may see this feat be a reality in the future.
Presenter: Karthik Kannan, Envision
You have heard about Bonocle, read about it, or ordered it. This session is your guide to the first hands-on experience with Bonocle. Know what to expect in terms of the product's shape, size, functionalities, and the library of apps and immersive games available for the blind community.
Presenter: Abdelrazek Aly, Bonocle, Inc.
We examined the impact of ADHD on online learning through literature review. We identified interventions to support students with ADHD through technology, content, and pedagogy.
Presenter: Lindsay McCardle, D2L Corporation
Whether visually impaired yourself or looking for an accessible drawing tool for a student, child, or colleague, this session combines 25 years of ViewPlus know-how and a desire to make tactile graphics creation accessible to all. Be self-sufficient with your own TIGER embosser.
Presenter: Dan Gardner, ViewPlus Technologies Inc
In this session, we invite you to a critical conversation exploring real interdependencies between organizational values and accessibility work. You will learn actionable strategies to implement value-driven technical and strategic accessibility work in your organization.
Presenters: Lucas Colusso, BECU
Carolyn Chesler, BECU
Karla Holman, BECU
Coding boot camps are increasing in popularity, but a skills gap exists. Accessibility isn't part of the boot camp curriculum. Learn what it means to be qualified to work in this field and how the gatekeepers of web accessibility could be harming the industry.
Presenter: Jonny James, TPGi
Discussion on new technologies impacting people with disabilities, both good and bad, including innovations on the horizon and around the corner presenting promise and risk.
Presenter: Christopher Land, Oracle
Extended reality is reinventing our approach to work, learning, culture, and social interaction. Nevertheless, the integration of accessible services within immersive environments is still in progress. This presentation will introduce new prototyping for immersive captioning and discuss how to achieve an optimal and fully inclusive viewing experience.
Presenter: Marta Brescia-Zapata, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
An eye gaze assessment can be an intimidating type of evaluation to perform. In this session, you will learn how eye gaze systems work and how to pre-screen an individual for optimal success. See typical and atypical eye images, their accompanying diagnoses, and discuss considerations for successful eye gaze access.
Presenter: Katerina Fassov, Eyegaze Inc.
Are you looking to make your user research more inclusive or are you curious what user research can add to your accessibility work? This presentation will explore the what, why, and how of inclusive user research based on our experiences creating an accessibility-oriented research program at CVS Health.
Presenters: Gregory Weinstein, CVS Health
Maria Lamardo, CVS Health
Andrew Wong-Crocitto, CVS Health
It is imperative to involve users with disabilities in UX research to evaluate the accessibility of complex single-page web applications such as MATLAB Online. This talk describes our process for finding and working with users with disabilities so they have a voice in our efforts to make MATLAB Online accessible.
Presenter: Bora Eryilmaz, The MathWorks, Inc.
CGI will take you on an exploration of error handling for web content. We will provide demonstrations and technical details on implementing some common types of error techniques (including inline and top of the page errors), discuss potential accessibility barriers, and share best practices for inclusive error handling.
Presenters: Karen Herndon, CGI
Eric Watts, CGI
WorkingWell 2.0 is an assistive technology (i.e., mobile app) that utilizes principles from evidence-based supported employment models. It offers a suite of resources to help meet the needs of autistic people in the workplace, with a focus on fostering collaboration with co-workers and managers.
Presenters: Spenser Wright, University of Colorado Denver & Brandeis University
Ian Moura, Brandeis University