Media has the power to shatter myths or reinforce stereotypes about people with disabilities. With the democratization of the Web, barriers to entry are fading, disability-savvy technology companies are creating content for streaming, gaming and entertainment, along with tools to create accessible content. Where do aspiring media professionals with disabilities fit into this equation? How do you best convey your disability-savvy brand in advertising, products, and messaging across social media and broadcast platforms? Discover creative talent with disabilities in front of and behind the camera/keyboard through the Lights! Camera! Access! (LCA) Career Incubator Initiative, and ADA Lead On Productions Disability Talent Pipeline.
Presenters: Danny Woodburn, Actor
Tari Hartman Squire, EIN SOF Communications
Actionable suggestions to create and remediate documents specific to municipal government agencies, including budgets, infographics, flyers, forms, and more.
Presenters: Sharon Rosenblatt, Accessibility Partners
Dana Marlowe, Accessibility Partners
We will discuss the practical impact of augmented reality in assisting caregivers and dependents with daily tasks required for independent living. The primary application is in the healthcare and rehabilitation industry, providing tools to support the staff and the patients.
Presenter: Bryan Rowe
Are you trying to build an accessible community in the workplace but not sure where to start or how to overcome complacency? What has prevented success? Let's talk about how we can build an inclusive workplace; what works and doesn't, new tools, and how to build an enthusiastic accessibility audience.
Presenter: Rachel Comerford, Macmillan Learning
The Freedom Scientific Training team offers ACVREP (Academy for Certification of Vision Rehabilitation & Education Professionals) credits for specified webinars. This session explains the process.
Presenter: Mike Wood, Vispero
Examination of adults with disabilities online engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic via survey data on food access, school and work, health, and social activities.
Presenter: John Morris, Shepherd Center
Role-based analysis of the nine new WCAG 2.2 success criteria confirms the increasing need for – and the ability of – accessibility to "shift left." Learn the new requirements content authors, user experience, and visual designers must conform to the new standard now and in the future.
Presenter: Bill Tyler, Optum Digital
World Services for the Blind presents a path to certification as an Assistive Technology Instructional Specialist for the Blind and Visually impaired. Participants of this session will learn the CATIS exam process and requirements, explore our course Curriculum, and discover employment opportunities.
Presenters: Eric Yarberry, World Services for the Blind
Sharon Giovinazzo, World Services for the Blind
Highcharts and Elsevier share recent research into making interactive web charts more accessible. Our usability studies focused on three areas, including stacked column charts, scatter plots, and charts with drill-down interactivity. We will share design considerations for keyboard navigation and the understandability of non-visual representations of data visualizations.
Presenters: Ted Gies, Elsevier
Øystein Moseng, Highcharts
The Department of Justice will discuss its work to achieve the promise of the Americans with Disabilities Act in the area of accessible technology through investigations, litigation, technical assistance, and mediation. This presentation will focus on the Department's past and recent work to address technological barriers for people with disabilities.
Presenter: Rebecca Bond, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section
Assistive Technology (AT) at Ernst & Young (EY) adapted to the Covid environment by expanding into virtual ergonomic analyses & increased its self-service software options via a global 'EY App Store'. This session will provide personal stories (names changed) reflecting these adaptations.
Presenter: Kevin Grogg, Ernst & Young (EY)
Many online educational materials for math are now produced with Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT). Our new add-on allows You to add easily alt-text/aloud reading by a TTS voice to any math part included in PPT slides. An accessible MP4 video for math education also can be produced efficiently.
Presenters: Katsuhito Yamaguchi, Nihon University
Toshihiko Komada, Nihon University
Toshihiro Kanahori, Tsukuba University of Technology
In this session, we go beyond the basics and demonstrate the power of Fusion screen reader with JAWS 2022 and Microsoft Teams.
Presenters: Matt Ater, Vispero
Elizabeth Whitaker, Vispero
Rachel Buchanan, Vispero
In partnership with Thinkerbell Labs, APH is debuting Polly, the sister product to Annie™, an independent electronic braille learning device. Attendees will experience an overview of the product, be introduced to how the various games can help expedite braille learning, enhance students' interest, and view the teacher's monitoring platform.
Presenters: Donna McClure-Rogers, American Printing House for the Blind
Greg Stilson, American Printing House for the Blind
The color scheme of Munsell value 10R4/6 for the nosing and 5YR6/2 for the tread of stairways is more secure for the elderly.
Presenter: Hiroyuki Nakamura, Shibaura Institute of Technology
This session focuses on unraveling the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1). Attendees will leave this session with a clearer understanding of the Success Criteria and how they apply to PDF Documents. You will learn several myths about WCAG for PDF and several 'must-know' rules to watch out for.
Presenter: Dax Castro, AbleDocs
Accessibility maturity does not always depend on top-down executive driven action. We'll share how real change at a large complex organization has been achieved by action from the ground up. We'll provide 5 examples that anyone who's passionate about accessibility can apply to drive change at their organization.
Presenters: Pauline Kiet, Kaiser Permanente
Sherri Rita, Kaiser Permanente
Mark Stimson, Kaiser Permanente
Eric Yeh, Kaiser Permanente
Vita Zavoli, Kaiser Permanente
This work presents an AR-based user interface approach and prototype, which allows blind people to haptically access spatial information on two-dimensional information spaces, like whiteboards.
Presenter: Reinhard Koutny, JKU Linz
Flexible interfaces have been central to development practices since responsive websites became a business priority. In typography and visual design systems flexibility is also an accessibility requirement. We will explore flexibility with CSS through ems, rems, and relative sizing techniques and how these impact user experience.
Presenter: Christina Adams, Siteimprove
Experience a real-world scenario exhibiting the synergy between the JAWS screen reader and TPGi's JAWS compatibility testing tool, JAWS Inspect, as part of the accessibility QA process
Presenters: Mike Desorda, TPGi
Ryan Jones, TPGi
Braille embossers are a widely available technology for blind people. However, users can overlook that they can be used beyond text documents. In this session, participants will learn how to create tactile graphics using Braille embossers, their challenges, and where to find the tools to achieve them.
Presenters: Maria Fernanda Zuniga Zabala, BTactile.com
John Alexis Guerra Gomez, Northeastern University Bay Area
Reha Buddy provides a tool to digitalize manual processes in physical rehabilitation to simplify the workload of medical professionals and to increase transparency of rehabilitation success for patients. We will present how we achieved a user-centered approach with a medical device and the learnings that helped to improve our product.
Presenter: Harald Jagos, Reha Buddy
This presentation provides a description of CSUN's Master of Science in Assistive Technology Studies & Human Services, including admission requirements, support services, and professional opportunities.
Presenter: S. Victoria Jaque, CSUN ATHS MS program
This presentation provides an overview of a longitudinal participatory study focused on co-designing a cross sensory 3D interface for and with blind and partially sighted drawers (BPSD) during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Presenter: Mitali Kamat, OCAD University
Explore key digital accessibility trends and developments related to laws and regulations, the market in general, and the ever-changing landscape of technology.
Presenter: Timothy Springer, Level Access
How can the needs of people with disabilities be accurately integrated into a fast developing industry of micro-mobility?
Presenters: Robin Mackenzie Spinks, RNIB
Alan Clarke, Lime
Learn practical strategies for pre-meeting prep and communication, meeting organization and flow, and post-meeting follow-up to ensure everyone gets a chance to contribute, and all voices have equal weight.
Presenters: Colleen Wood, Level Access
Sarah Schaidt, Level Access
The purpose of this presentation is to suggest a tablet application to support learning sign language and communication for students with/without disabilities, especially those with hearing disabilities and developmental disorders. It helps them interact, understand, and prepare for learning in their daily, school, and social lives.
Presenter: Kuniomi Shibata, Tsuda University
Technology and awareness have expanded the availability of live captions and other accessibility options for organizations. Captionmax has developed an innovative web-based captioning player, bringing media accessibility to anyone with an internet connection. This new tool, Jetstream Express, is accessible on browsers and devices, providing live captions for any event.
Presenter: Derek Throldahl, Captionmax
Captioning plays a pivotal role in increasing engagement and retention, however many institutions rely on dated platforms that are inaccurate, costly and non-compliant with ADA regulations. This session discusses how AI integration in the captioning workflow can make content shared in the workplace, classrooms and online platforms accessible for all.
Presenters: Najia Sabir, Management Concepts
Bethany Stoltz, Verbit
Scott Ready, Verbit
Shouldn't the element in focus be the first thing you see when looking at a screen? If so, then you're in for a re-thinking of how we build apps and approach this important accessibility feature.
Presenters: Claudio Luis Vera, Stark
Marcelo Paiva, UKG - Ultimate Kronos Group
T-Base Communications has created a sophisticated and advanced SaaS platform that enables the conversion of any document into an accessible format. This session will demonstrate the platform's features, its simplicity and intuitive nature for any user skillset, and its potential applications in a myriad of vertical markets.
Presenter: Jeff Jullion, T-Base Communications
Navigation is tough. It's easy to get lost, whether running to an appointment or traversing an airport. Furthermore, maps of most spaces, are not good, providing little detail. In this session, we discuss new methods in spatial mapping for navigation applications, providing persons of every ability safe and efficient travel experiences.
Presenter: Mike May, GoodMaps Inc
Implementation Science and corresponding models provide best practices and approaches to effectively roll out initiatives and change within an organization. This session will discuss these principles as it applies to educational institutions adopting assistive or educational technology through a UDL lens and/or institutional accessibility initiatives.
Presenter: Rachel Kruzel, Texthelp
Wikimedia Foundation believes that everyone should have access to ever-increasing digital powers of content creation, distribution, and consumption. How the Foundation's diversity, equity and inclusion product framework helps pave the way closer to knowledge equity.
Presenter: Volker Eckl, Wikimedia Foundation
Presenter: Lily Bond, 3Play Media
Transforming desktop applications into accessible web applications requires the development of new testing strategies that leverage available accessibility testing tools. This talk shares testing strategies that MathWorks has developed that include integrated automated accessibility tests in a continuous integration system to enable new feature development while preventing regressions in accessibility.
Presenter: Tristan Yang, The MathWorks, Inc
Join this session for a light-hearted informative look at Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) captioning. Compare caption service types, understand the value of different captioning service types, learn from others in the field regarding what works and what doesn't when it comes to ASR captioning via streaming content or the classroom.
Presenter: Kyle Phillips, Ai-Media Technologies
Join an interactive discussion of MITRE's research and development efforts supporting the Federal Communications Commission's initiative to improve telecommunication accessibility for people who are d/Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Explore free, open-source solutions to test and improve ASR and caption quality and accuracy, and further development of DVC solutions.
Presenters: Jim Malloy, MITRE Corporation
Joe Gruessing, MITRE Corporation
Learn how a course in digital accessibility promotes broader awareness and adoption of accessibility best practices and policies in a project-based, interdisciplinary course for students in technology management, business, K-12 education, and other majors.
Presenter: Paula Kaplan, Marshall University
Learning environments are evolving so now's the time to advocate for UDL. But are students equipped? Digital learning exposed the challenges of information overload, stretching working memory, attention, and information processing. Explore the skills now needed to learn with technology so true equity is achieved in the modern classroom.
Presenter: Paddy Heaton, Glean (formerly Sonocent)
This presentation will discuss approaching design as a conversation between you and your customers. This approach will most directly benefit Product Design and Content roles, but anyone involved in the creation of new digital products or features will come away with a new tool for your accessibility toolkit.
Presenter: Kevin Kalahiki, Wells Fargo
What does truly inclusive storytelling look, sound and feel like? The session will summarize the Auditorial project, a unique and innovative collaboration between the Guardian, RNIB and Google.
Presenters: Robin Mackenzie Spinks, RNIB
David Clarke, RNIB
Introducing The Dot pad: The Full Screen Tactile Display for the Blind that can bring GUI.
Presenter: Kikwang Sung, Dot Inc.