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Schedule 2019

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Monday

Monday, November 18

Room10:30am MST1:00pm MST2:30pm MST
Standley I (Adobe Lab)

Getting to grips with EPUB

Richard Orme

Lunch (on your own)

Getting to grips with EPUB (continued)

Richard Orme

Westminster I

Managing Accessibility Testing

Gian Wild

Lunch (on your own)

Managing Accessibility Testing (continued)

Gian Wild

Westminster II

PDF Remediation with CommonLook PDF

Paul Rayius

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

PDF Remediation with CommonLook PDF (continued)

Paul Rayius

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Westminster III

Knowbility’s Accessibility Master Class

Becky Gibson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Knowbility’s Accessibility Master Class (continued)

Becky Gibson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Standley II Lab

Wagging the Dog: Secret Macro/Replace Tricks and Tips In Alternate Format Production

Susan Kelmer

Lunch (on your own)

Wagging the Dog: Secret Macro/Replace Tricks and Tips In Alternate Format Production (continued)

Susan Kelmer

Westminster IV
2-day session - continues on Tuesday

PDF Accessibility – Train-the-Trainer

Rob Haverty

Lunch (on your own)

PDF Accessibility – Train-the-Trainer (continued)

Rob Haverty

Cotton Creek I
No session
Lunch (on your own)
Virtual pre-conference

Creating Accessible Digital Documents in MS Office (session ends at 5:30 pm)

Kristi Elmore

10:30am MST

1:00pm MST

  • No session

2:30pm MST

Tuesday 2019

Tuesday, November 19

Room9:00am MST12:00pm MST1:30pm MST7:00pm MST
Westminster I

Mobile Site Accessibility Testing

Gian Wild

Lunch (on your own)

Mobile Site Accessibility Testing (continued)

Gian Wild

Keynote
Westminster II

Creating Accessible PDF Forms using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

Karen McCall

Lunch (on your own)

Creating Accessible PDF Forms using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (continued)

Karen McCall

Keynote
Westminster III
No session
Lunch (on your own)
No session
Keynote
Westminster IV
2-day session - cont'd from Monday

PDF Accessibility – Train-the-Trainer (continued)

Rob Haverty

Lunch (on your own)

PDF Accessibility – Train-the-Trainer (continued)

Rob Haverty

Keynote
Standley I Lab

Inside EPUB

Richard Orme

Lunch (on your own)

Inside EPUB (continued)

Richard Orme

Keynote
Standley II Lab

Introduction to Online Course Accessibility

Joseph Feria-Galicia

Lunch (on your own)

Introduction to Online Course Accessibility (continued)

Joseph Feria-Galicia

Keynote
Meadowbrook I

Understanding the ARIA Authoring Practices and Screen Readers

Jon Gunderson

Lunch (on your own)

Understanding the ARIA Authoring Practices and Screen Readers (continued)

Jon Gunderson

Keynote
Meadowbrook II

Inclusive Design: The Product and the Process

Derek Featherstone

Lunch (on your own)

Inclusive Design: The Product and the Process (continued)

Derek Featherstone

Keynote
Cotton Creek II

Create Accessible Documents in Word & PowerPoint (WebAIM Certificate)

George Joeckel

Lunch (on your own)

Create Accessible Documents in Word & PowerPoint (WebAIM Certificate) (continued)

George Joeckel

Keynote
Cotton Creek IVirtual pre-conference

Acquiring Accessible IT Products for your Campus

Cheryl Pruitt

Lunch (on your own)
Virtual pre-conference

YOU CAN Create Accessible Math for Students With Print Disabilities

Susan Kelmer

Keynote

9:00am MST

12:00pm MST

  • No session

1:30pm MST

7:00pm MST

  • No session

Wednesday 2019

Wednesday, November 20

Room8:00am MST9:15am MST10:15am MST11:15am MST12:20pm MST2:15pm MST3:30pm MST
Waverly

Using Pattern Lab and Drupal 8 to Stop Reinventing the Accessibility Wheel

Carly Gerard

Inclusive Course Design Requires a Team

Sheryl Ballenger

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Fusion Assistive Technology: For On and Off Campus Use

Melinda Colby

Lunch Meetup (or on your own)
UDUC

UDL, Accessibility and Quality Assurance – Collaborations at the University of Arizona for Online Classes, Take Two

Barbara Lopez

Incorporating Student Voices in Accessibility at the Penn State University Libraries

Binky Lush

Meadowbrook I/IIUDUC Virtual A

Accessibility and Universal Design for Online Courses – making the practice practicable, and a bit less scary

CAREY HAMBURG

Virtual A

Overview of the Microsoft Immersive Reading Tools in Office 365

Karen McCall

Exhibit Hall Break
Virtual A

Creating (More) Accessible Comics and Graphic Novels

Eric Stallard

Lunch Meetup (or on your own)
Virtual A

Authoring Documents with Accessibility in Mind

Paul Rayius

EPUB Virtual A

The Publisher Sent Me An ePub! Now What?

Susan Kelmer

Cotton Creek I

There are 2 sides to every story: VPATs

Kara Zirkle

Accessible and User-Friendly Drag-and-Drop Questions

Emilie Berglund

Exhibit Hall Break
Virtual B

Navigating the Venn Diagram of Video Accessibility Laws

Jena Wallace

Lunch Meetup (or on your own)
Virtual B

“This Isn’t Why I Became An Instructor!”: Motivating Faculty to Embrace Accessibility

Jennifer Pedersen

Virtual B

Toward Universal Design in Online Learning: The Interface Between Technology and Pedagogy

Mahadeo Sukhai

Cotton Creek IIEPUB

Born Accessible: Ensuring You’re Adopting Accessible Course Materials

Erin Lucas

Creating an Inclusive Library Environment

Stephanie Robbins

Exhibit Hall Break

Re-imagining the lecture note taking experience to make note taking accessible for all

Paul Davis

Lunch Meetup (or on your own)

The Status of Digital Document Accessibility – Are We Any Closer To Inclusive Education

Karen McCall

Web Accessibility in Higher Education: An Analysis of over 4,000 Institutions

Jay Pope

Standley I LabVirtual B

Introduction to Accessible PDF Documents

Rob Haverty

Virtual B

Introduction to Accessible PDF Documents (continued)

Rob Haverty

Exhibit Hall Break

Where Accessibility Lives: Incorporating A11y Into Your Process and Team

Derek Featherstone Level Access

Lunch Meetup (or on your own)

Tips and Tricks for Accessible PDFs

Rob Haverty

Tips and Tricks for Accessible PDFs (continued)

Rob Haverty

Standley II Lab

3D Printing Educational Models for all students (Lecture/demo)

Jonathan Gorges

3D Printing Educational Models for all students (Lecture/demo) (continued)

Jonathan Gorges

Exhibit Hall Break
WAI

Making Audio and Video Media Accessible – W3C WAI Guidance

Shawn Henry

Lunch Meetup (or on your own)

Accessible InDesign + PDF: Refresher!

Bevi Chagnon

Accessible InDesign + PDF: Refresher! (continued)

Bevi Chagnon

Windsor

We’re All in this Together: Lessons from a Help Desk in Changing Culture

Vanessa Zuroski

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Integrating a11y on your site and organization from the ground-up.

Samuel Acuna

Exhibit Hall Break

Global Portraits of Inclusion: An Ethnographic Account Of Accessibility in Education

John Scott

Lunch Meetup (or on your own)

Website Accessibility Certification and Logos – What do I really need?

Jeffrey Singleton

Web Redesign RFP 101

Deborah Dorsey

Westminster I

Future of Accessibility Guidelines for Web and ICT

Jeanne Spellman

UDUC

UDL and Accessibility Strategies in the Classroom Using Faculty Learning Communities

Scot Atkins

Exhibit Hall Break

Grassroot Successes for Small College Accessibility

Deborah Dorsey

Lunch Meetup (or on your own)

Building a Culture of Accessibility through Innovation

Evan Yamanishi

Educating Your Web Team: Accessibility for Chummies

Angela Hooker

Westminster IIVideotaped A

Tips and Tricks for Inexpensive Accessibility Testing

Elizabeth Simister

Videotaped A

Writing Good Alt Text

Gaeir Dietrich

Exhibit Hall Break
UDUC Videotaped A

Teaching about accessibility in computing courses

Sheryl Burgstahler

Lunch Meetup (or on your own)
Videotaped A

IT Procurement: Accessibility as a Functional Criterion

Hadi Rangin

Videotaped A

Feel Good about Your Tactile Graphics

Gaeir Dietrich

Westminster IIIVideotaped B

Faculty Learning Community for Inclusive Pedagogy

Michelle Jarman

Videotaped B

Trending Tech Tools – 2019 Update: What’s New, What’s Improved & What’s on the Horizon for Assistive Technology & Accessibility Tools

Rachel Kruzel

Exhibit Hall Break
Videotaped B

If you Give an Instructor Usability: The Slippery Slope to Accessibility

Christopher Phillips

Lunch Meetup (or on your own)
Videotaped B

Institutional Roadblocks to Accessibility: A collaborative session on how to overcome organizational resistance

Howard Fooksman

Videotaped B

Extreme Design: Solve for Extremes to Create Better Designs for Everyone

Derek Featherstone Level Access

Westminster IV

Universal Access – Live, remote note taking for the wider student population

Kelly Smyth

Case Study: SensusAccess LTI at Columbia College – improving accessibility to instructional material

Lars Ballieu Christensen

Exhibit Hall Break
EPUB

Making an Online Stat Course Accessible through ePub

Jinhee Choo

Lunch Meetup (or on your own)

An Instructional Design Approach to Accessibility – Lessons Learned

Justin Tumelaire

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

UDUC

Three Approaches to Teaching Accessibility and Universal Design at the University of Illinois

Marc Thompson

Lakehouse

Lessons learned from managing a student workforce in creating STEM alternate materials

Brian Richwine

Design Systems for Accessible Accessibility

Jiatyan Chen

Exhibit Hall Break

Apps for Academic Success!

Shannon Lavey

Lunch Meetup (or on your own)

Audio Description – What, Why and How

Kelly Smyth

UDUC

Tips for promoting accessible IT campus-wide within the context of a universal design framework

Sheryl Burgstahler

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

8:00am MST

9:15am MST

10:15am MST

  • No session

11:15am MST

12:20pm MST

  • No session

2:15pm MST

3:30pm MST

Thursday 2019

Thursday, November 21

Room8:00am MST9:15am MST10:30am MST11:30am MST12:30pm MST2:00pm MST3:15pm (50 min) MST4:20pm MST
Waverly

A11yFirst Editor Enhancements Module for Drupal 8

Jon Gunderson

Making Career Services More Equitable and Inclusive through Accessibility and Usability

Rebecca Hall

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch Meetup (or on your own)

Vispero in Education – Affordable Software & Hardware for Entire Campuses

Michael Wood

Piloting Blackboard Ally: Faculty Perspectives

Christa Miller

Ed-ICT: Exploring IT Access in 5 Countries

Sheryl Burgstahler

Meadowbrook I/IIVirtual A

Commonly Seen Accessibility Errors Files

Becky Gibson

Virtual A

Using the Microsoft Accessibility Checkers to Optimize Document Accessibility

Karen McCall

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch Meetup (or on your own)
Virtual A

The Great PDF Purge

Crystal Tenan

Virtual A

The Blueprint for Student Success: Accessibility Support for Faculty and the Workflow to Make It Happen

Shawn Jordison

Virtual A

The Velvet Hammer: Accessible Procurement Buy-In and Pushback at Cal State San Bernardino

Leon McNaught

Cotton Creek IVirtual B

Getting Past ‘Yes’, to Genuine Action: Using the Dark Arts for Purposes of Good

Greg Hanek

EPUB Virtual B

EPUB Reading Systems for Students with Learning Disabilities

Joseph Polizzotto

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch Meetup (or on your own)
Virtual B

Able Player 4.0: A free, open source accessible media player

Terrill Thompson

Virtual B

Able Player 4.0: A free, open source accessible media player (continued)

Terrill Thompson

Virtual B

Intro to Audio Description

Jaclyn Leduc 3PlayMedia

Cotton Creek II

“Access BSC, A Bridge to Success in College”-Developing Your Transition Toolkit.  

Sumana Silverheels

How we do accessible IT at the UW

Terrill Thompson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch Meetup (or on your own)

Words to the Wise: How Typed Transcripts and Video Captions Are Boosting Student Outcomes

Wendy Mejia Rev

Building an Accessibility Team – Hiring the right specialists for the job

Jacqueline Tolisano

EPUB

Progress Made on Accessible STEM

Charles LaPierre

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Standley I (Adobe Lab)

Creating Accessible PDF Forms

Rob Haverty

Creating Accessible PDF Forms (continued)

Rob Haverty

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch Meetup (or on your own)

Preparing Accessible Math Documents using MathJax (hands-on)

Volker Sorge

Preparing Accessible Math Documents using MathJax (hands-on) (continued)

Volker Sorge

Testing Accessibility throughout the Software Lifecycle

Justin Stockton

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Standley II Lab

Training Your Dragon – Creating a Training Guide for Dragon Naturally Speaking (Lecture/Demo)

Wink Harner

No session
Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch Meetup (or on your own)
EPUB

Creating and remediating EPUB

Richard Orme

EPUB

Creating and remediating EPUB (continued)

Richard Orme

WAI

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) 2-Way Q&A

Shawn Henry

Windsor

FIU’s personalized approach: Designing an Accessible Database Management System for Disability Services

Joanna Lindsay Florida International University

Positive Forward Movement: A University’s Digital Accessibility Journey and Strategies

Jen Bethmann

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch Meetup (or on your own)

The Future is Accessible, Starting Now

Kristi Elmore

The Future is Accessible, Starting Now (continued)

Kristi Elmore

Website Liability Under US Accessibility Laws

Ken Nakata

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Westminster I

Literacy Support with the added bonus of Accessibility: Read&Write

Laura Trimble

UDUC

Integrating Social Justice in Computer Science Pedagogy

Rua Williams

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch Meetup (or on your own)

Universal Design for Learning: Planning for Learner Variability

Bryan Saums

Accessible Design Top 10 List

Marcial Contreras

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

A Graphic Designer’s Perspective on Universal Design for Learning

Lance Hidy

Westminster IIVideotaped A

Social media and accessibility – 2019 update

Gian Wild

Videotaped A

Social media and accessibility – 2019 update (continued)

Gian Wild

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch Meetup (or on your own)
Videotaped A

Add Accessibility to Your Process the Easy-ish Way

James Green

Videotaped A

Add Accessibility to Your Process the Easy-ish Way (continued)

James Green

Videotaped A

Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Pro DC: Nuance PowerPDF and Foxit Phantom for Business

Karen McCall

Westminster IIIVideotaped B

Alternative wayfinding systems to assist blind/visually impaired to independently navigate college campuses

Jim Kessler

Videotaped B

Monitoring Your Organization’s Accessibility Effort

Justin Stockton

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch Meetup (or on your own)
Videotaped B

Neutralizing the Fear Factor: How perceptions of ongoing “risk” hamper momentum for your accessibility program

Rick Ferrie

UDUC Videotaped B WAI

WAI Curricula: Build Your Own Accessibility Courses

Shadi Abou-Zahra

Videotaped B

Scaling Online Course Accessibility

Kristin Noppenberger

Westminster IV

Accessibility training for IT vendors: a new model to reach accessibility

Hadi Rangin

Streamlined Accessibility Testing: How a Harmonized Baseline and Quick Test/Fail Techniques Increase Efficiency

Jonathan Avila Level Access

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch Meetup (or on your own)

OCR’s Year In Review (2019)

Mary Lou Mobley

OCR’s Year In Review (2019) (continued)

Mary Lou Mobley

Getting Beyond the Checklist- Culture, Change, and Accessibility

Nina Overdorff

LakehouseEPUB

Introducing Thorium, a new free desktop EPUB reader for Windows and Mac

Richard Orme

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

WAI

WAI Resources – Putting Accessibility Guidelines and Support Materials to Work

Shawn Henry

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch Meetup (or on your own)

Providing Tactile Tours to Increase Usability of Tactile Graphics

Brian Richwine

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

A Tactile Image is worth a Thousand Words

Dave Wilkinson

Math Made Easy: Conversion, authoring, and access with EquatIO!

Paul Brown

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

8:00am MST

9:15am MST

10:30am MST

  • No session

11:30am MST

  • No session

12:30pm MST

  • No session

2:00pm MST

3:15pm (50 min) MST

4:20pm MST

Friday 2019

Friday, November 22

Room8:00am MST9:15am MST10:30am MST11:30am MST12:45pm MST2:00pm MST
Waverly
Round Table/Unconference

Embracing the Workshop Model: A Scalable System for Ongoing Adaptive Technology Support

Michele Bromley

APH in Higher Education

Dave Wilkinson

Lunch (on your own)
No session
No session
Meadowbrook I
Round Table/Unconference
Virtual A

Building an Accessible Online Course: Best Practices & Principles

George Joeckel

EPUB Virtual A

Bookshare, AccessText and Alternate Media Centers: Sources to Obtain Alternative Formats

Dawn Evans

Lunch (on your own)
Virtual A

How To Empower Professors To Support Students With Disabilities

Auston Stamm

Virtual A

Writing Effective Alternative Text for Educational Content: Best Practices for Reducing Cognitive Load

Valerie Morrison

Meadowbrook II
Round Table/Unconference

Video player accessibility – 2019 update

Gian Wild

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Web accessibility for large organizations: narrowing the focus

Kathryn Tipton

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Sticky Access – Giving a Change-Oriented A11y Experience

William Burgess

Aira, A Tool To Enhance Campus Accessibility For Students And Visitors Who Are Blind Or Low Vision

Greg Stilson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Standley I Lab
Round Table/Unconference

Preparing Accessible Math Documents using MathJax (hands-on) (repeat)

Volker Sorge

Preparing Accessible Math Documents using MathJax (hands-on) (repeat) (continued)

Volker Sorge

Lunch (on your own)
No session
No session
Cotton Creek I
Round Table/Unconference
EPUB Virtual B

EPUB Face Off – Publishers Getting it Right or Wrong

George Kerscher

Virtual B

Hey, Siri — Are We There Yet? The State of ASR & Synthesized Speech for Captioning & Description

Jena Wallace

Lunch (on your own)
Virtual B

Different Role, Same Goal: Creating a Culture That Embraces Accessibility

Jennifer Pedersen

Virtual B

Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment in 3 Steps

Liezl Madrona

Standley II Lab
Round Table/Unconference

Leveraging Exceptions Processes to drive accessibility

John Jones

Learning Process Automation: Bringing Assistive AI to Accessibility

Rajiv Narayana

Lunch (on your own)

Creating the PSU Tactile Map from One SVG File

Michael Cantino

No session
Cotton Creek II
Round Table/Unconference
UDUC

Importance of end-user testing in accessible media capstone research

Jennifer Curry Jahnke

UDUC

Accessibility: Teaching Skills for the Future

Tracy Christofero

Lunch (on your own)
UDUC WAI

Teaching Accessibility: Case studies of courses that include accessibility topics in their curricula

Terrill Thompson University of Washington

UDUC

Student Benefits and Teaching Resources for Including Accessibility/Inclusive Design Topics in University Courses

Howard Kramer

WB I
Round Table/Unconference

Lessons Learned in the Website Revision Process

Petra Hartman

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Faculty training success story: Partnering around diversity and inclusive excellence

Marla Roll

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Document Accessibility, Avoiding Lawsuits and Future Proofing – Tools to be in Compliance

Doug Koppenhofer Crawford Technologies

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

No session
WB II
Round Table/Unconference

Accessibility and the 7 Habits

Mark Greenfield

Collaboration Room: Bring Your Accessibility Questions

Robert Beach

Lunch (on your own)

From Accommodations to Inclusion: How to Build a Captioning Budget that Benefits All Students

Scott Ready

EPUB

Take Control! Overriding publisher layout for improved accessibility in your ebooks… including sideloading!

Rick Johnson

Windsor
Round Table/Unconference

Joliet Junior College’s 508 Compliance Website Accessibility Journey: From Problem to Partnership

Timothy Roessler

Your Ally in Change Management

Krista Greear Wright

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)
No session
No session

8:00am MST

  • No session

9:15am MST

10:30am MST

11:30am MST

  • No session

12:45pm MST

2:00pm MST