Accepted Sessions for AHG 2021

(Note: this list contains both virtual and onsite sessions. Those labeled "TBD," indicate the type of presentation is still being determined. Check back for updates.)

Proposal No: 35493 People-First Design: Prioritizing Accessibility Needs in Product Development

Scheduled for 3:30pm on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Ballroom D

Session type TBD

Proposal No: 35285 How Voice Transforms The Learning Experience

Scheduled for 2:00pm on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 4

Onsite session

Proposal No: 35151 PDF Accessibility Workshop

Scheduled for 9:00am on 2021-11-16 in Gov Square 10

Session type TBD

Proposal No: 35150 PDF Accessibility Overview

Scheduled for 10:30am on 2021-11-15 in Gov Square 10

Session type TBD

Proposal No: 35133 1-Day Accessibility Testing Workshop

Scheduled for 10:30am on 2021-11-15 in Gov Square 11

Session type TBD

Proposal No: 35000 Simplifying Web Accessibility at Any Scale

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 4

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34952 Independence, Compliance and Beyond: practical solutions for creating accessible media

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 14

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34498 Accessible Infographic Techniques Beyond Alt-text

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 10

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34708 Accessible Color: Dos and Don’ts

Scheduled for 2:00pm on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 12

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34656 Designing the Digital Accessibility Gateway: Using Data to Create Sustainability and Culture

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 2

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34621 How and What Syllabi Analysis Can Tell Us About Accessibility, Teaching, and Learning

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-17 in Virtual Room 1

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34586 [Cancelled] Making Campus Easier to Navigate with Accessible Navigation Technology

Scheduled for 2:15pm on in

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34301 Make it Stop! The Case Against, and Alternatives To, the Test-for-Free Model

Scheduled for 3:30pm on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 10

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34541 Spoken Presentation in HTML

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 4

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34531 Evaluating Web Accessibility: How Hard Can it Be?

Scheduled for 11:45am on 2021-11-19 in Gov Square 10

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34529 Decoding label and name for accessibility

Scheduled for 2:15pm on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 14

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34524 I Didn’t Know Word Could Do That! (or IDK Word Could do That)

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 11

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34519 Creating a Campus-wide Digital Accessibility Initiative

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Ballroom D

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34516 Icebreakers into Accessibility

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 10

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34511 Finding Sustainability through Digital Accessibility

Scheduled for 10:30am on 2021-11-19 in Gov Square 12

Session type TBD

Proposal No: 34508 Campus-wide Development and Practices of an Independent Accessible Technology Office

Scheduled for 11:45am on 2021-11-19 in Plaza Court 4

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34501 How has Covid-19 affected mobile tech use by students with disabilities?

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-18 in Virtual Room 1

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34499 Creating more robust Infographics – Beyond Alt-text

Scheduled for 9:00am on 2021-11-16 in Gov Square 11

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34487 25 Million Requests for Greater Access: a Review of Student Preferences for Course Accessibility

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 11

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34480 How to get Faculty Interested in Alt Text: Providing Purpose in UDL and Access Training

Scheduled for 10:30am on 2021-11-19 in Virtual Room 1

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34474 Making Social Media Accessible

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 11

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34475 Panel: Do PDFs Belong in our Accessible Future?

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 11

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34472 [CANCELLED] Beyond “99 Red Balloons” – A Pragmatic guide to alternative text

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 14 (Lab)

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34470 Accessibility is a moving target

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 10

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34457 Assistive Technology Tools that Facilitate Reading and Writing Skills

Scheduled for 2:15pm on 2021-11-17 in Virtual Room 1

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34453 Easy Accessibility for Chemistry

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-19 in Plaza Court 4

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34446 Automated Generation of Tactile Mathematics

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Ballroom E

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34447 Assessing the Accessibility of Web 2.0 Tools

Scheduled for 2:15pm on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 11

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34444 Scaling Web Accessibility – University of Phoenix Accessibility SMEs

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-17 in Virtual Room 1

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34424 Four design strategies to prevent most accessibility issues

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 10

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34419 Three behaviors for developers getting started with accessibility

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 1

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34392 How to Develop an Efficient Accessibility Testing Process

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 12

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34414 Using the JAWS screen reader to create better digital content

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 15

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34406 Exploring the library accessible content Ecosystem

Scheduled for 2:15pm on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Court 3

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34401 Low cost, high impact user research with people with disabilities

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 1

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34383 The online accessibility hub: what makes a great institutional accessibility website?

Scheduled for 2:15pm on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Ballroom D

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34394 Creating Accessible Social Media Content

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Ballroom E

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34390 Holistic Accessibility Across the Penn State University

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 12

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34387 EPUB Crawl: Demystifying Automated eBook Accessibility Testing

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Ballroom D

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34385 The evolution of innovative technology for accessible STEM

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-19 in Gov Square 12

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34381 [Cancelled] Accessible Documents Made Easy: Introducing T-Base’s Self-Serve Transcription Tool

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Ballroom D

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34363 Using the Capability Maturity Model to advance accessibility and inclusivity

Scheduled for 9:00am on 2021-11-16 in Gov Square 12

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34372 First-Generation Students, Inclusivity and Alternative Formats

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 10

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34370 The Intersection of Universal Design and User Experience (UX) in Design Thinking

Scheduled for 2:00pm on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 15 (Lab)

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34315 Curricula on Web Accessibility: Build, Compare and Select Courses on Web Accessibility

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 3

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34298 A11y, AI & Machine Learning: Opportunities & Threats

Scheduled for 11:45am on 2021-11-19 in Gov Square 12

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34291 Joys of Native app testing

Scheduled for 2:30pm on 2021-11-15 in Virtual Room 1

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34287 See Life’s Possibilities Clearly by Choosing the Proper Assistive Technology

Scheduled for 3:30pm on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Court 1

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34269 Implementing a Captioning Program at MIT

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-17 in Virtual Room 1

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34264 PDF Accessibility – Creating accessible forms

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 14

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34262 [Cancelled] PDF Accessibility – What to do with those pesky tables in your PDF document

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-19 in Gov Square 14 (Lab)

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34260 PDF Accessibility – When is Good Enough, Good Enough?

Scheduled for 2:00pm on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 10

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34255 PDF Accessibility – Train the Trainer

Scheduled for 10:30am on in

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34209 Annotations for All: Creating accessible and understandable annotated and marked-up content

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Court 2

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34245 Help! How Can I Deal with Increased Needs Without Increased Staff Levels?

Scheduled for 2:00pm on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Ballroom E

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34234 Taking the Tears Out of Text Language Markup – A Journey

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Ballroom D

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34070 Cross Departmental Accessibility Focus: College-Wide Student Success and Online Courses

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 11

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34224 The Bigger Picture of Learning Technology: Leveraging Digital Transformation (Dx) to Advocate for UDL

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 10

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34217 Finding Our Place: Creating a Culture of Accessibility at the University of Texas at San Antonio

Scheduled for 2:00pm on 2021-11-18 in Virtual Room 1

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34206 [Cancelled:] Accessibility and Interactivity: Ensuring Everyone Participates in the Digital Future

Scheduled for 2:15pm on in

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34215 Bookshare Reader: A New beginning for Accessible Reading with Bookshare

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-18 in Virtual Room 1

Virtual session

Proposal No: 33977 Bookshare Making Math Accessible One Image at a Time

Scheduled for 2:00pm on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 3

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34210 Making an Online Science Lab Accessible to All

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Ballroom D

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34201 EPUB Reading Apps Roundup – How to assess EPUB reading systems and how you can Stay Up to date on which to recommend

Scheduled for 3:30pm on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Court 3

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34181 Understanding The Digital Tools And Technology At Your Fingertips – You Don’t Need To Be An Expert!

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-19 in Gov Square 10

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34195 Techquity: Bring Access and Inclusion to All Students on Your Campus

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 12

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34164 Accessible Interactive Simulations for Science Learning

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-19 in Plaza Court 2

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34184 Turning Math Into HTML

Scheduled for 10:30am on 2021-11-19 in Plaza Court 2

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34178 Why Universal Design for Learning (UDL) / Inclusion Matters

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 2

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34173 Tools for Automating the Creation of MP3s

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-18 in Virtual Room 1

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34165 A Qualitative Analysis of Remote Learning Benefits and Barriers Among Students with Disabilities

Scheduled for 10:30am on 2021-11-19 in Plaza Court 3

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34018 Building a Culture of Accessibility: Accessing Wellness Resources to Improve Learning Environments

Scheduled for 11:45am on 2021-11-19 in Plaza Court 3

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34155 Underpinning Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives with a Universal Design Framework

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-19 in Plaza Court 3

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34151 Strategies for using the Microsoft Immersive Reading Tools

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Court 3

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34153 Beyond VPAT, importance of Accessibility culture aspect in vendor selection

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 11

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34148 Tips for using Read&Write Text-to-Speech

Scheduled for 3:30pm on 2021-11-17 in Virtual Room 1

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34145 How to read a VPAT and Accessibility Conformance Report

Scheduled for 2:00pm on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 2

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34137 Social media and accessibility

Scheduled for 2:15pm on in Matchless

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34134 Mobile Testing Workshop (2021)

Scheduled for 9:00am on 2021-11-16 in Virtual Room 1

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34132 Mobile accessibility: testing mobile sites and native apps for accessibility

Scheduled for 2:00pm on in

Virtual session

Proposal No: 33971 Audio Description: There’s An App For That!

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-19 in Gov Square 11

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34122 Global Certified Accessible Third-party Certification for EPUBs

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Court 3

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34119 Peer-Focused Assistive Technology Support

Scheduled for 11:45am on 2021-11-19 in Virtual Room 1

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34113 Teach Access: On A Mission to Ensure Products Are Born Accessible

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-19 in Plaza Court 1

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34101 Affecting Digital Accessibility Change through Scalable Procurement Workflows

Scheduled for 10:30am on 2021-11-19 in Gov Square 11

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34107 Accessibility in Procurement: How to Read a VPAT

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 12

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34109 Tips for Accessible Online and Hybrid Learning

This session has not been scheduled

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34106 Intro to Audio Description

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Court 2

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34099 Breaking the Cycle: Building Accessibility into the Content Development Process

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-19 in Virtual Room 1

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34091 Checking PDFs for PDF/UA-1 Compliance

Scheduled for 2:15pm on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 15

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34089 Easily Make Your Website and Digital Content More Accessible, Usable and Readable with ReachDeck

Scheduled for 2:00pm on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Ballroom D

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34085 Managing Alternate Media Student Staff Remotely in the Pandemic and Beyond  

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Ballroom D

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34054 Breaking through the Apathy Fog: An Awareness Campaign for Digital Accessibility in Higher Education

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 1

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34076 Case For Adding Accessibility in Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering Curriculums

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 14 (Lab)

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34074 Dump the documents: Examples of “no file downloads” approach to accessibility

Scheduled for 11:45am on 2021-11-19 in Plaza Court 2

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34066 Accessible PDF Forms from Adobe InDesign

Scheduled for 1:30pm on in

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34063 Accessible Adobe InDesign Layouts to Produce Accessible PDFs (2021)

Scheduled for 10:30am on 2021-11-15 in Gov Square 14 (Lab)

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34061 Exploration of the New and Improved Read&Write for Google Chrome Toolbar and PDF Reader

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 12

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34059 Trending Tech Tools – 2021 Edition: What’s New, What’s Improved & What’s on the Horizon for AT & Accessibility Tools

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Ballroom E

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34052 Browser Extensions For All – “We’re Different, We’re the Same”

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 2

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34046 Create Accessible Documents in Word, PowerPoint, & Excel

Scheduled for 9:00am on 2021-11-16 in Plaza Ballroom D

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34048 Academic Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Post-Secondary Students with and Without Disabilities

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 3

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34038 Common Accessibility Questions by Online Learners

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 3

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34027 A Learning Garden For All

This session has not been scheduled

Session type TBD

Proposal No: 34025 SVGWiz: Creating Accessible and Explorable Complex Graphics

This session has not been scheduled

Virtual session

Proposal No: 34022 The Essentials of Modern Born Accessible Publishing on your campus

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 4

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34014 The Nuts and Bolts: Alternate Format Production Intensive

Scheduled for 10:30am on 2021-11-15 in Gov Square 15 (Lab)

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34012 Accessibility Metadata – A Digital Textbook Superhero!

Scheduled for 2:15pm on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 10

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34007 Browser Extension to Support College Learning

Scheduled for 10:30am on 2021-11-19 in Plaza Court 4

Onsite session

Proposal No: 34004 How Does the Awareness of Assistive Technology Impact Students with Disabilities’ Success At the College Level?

This session has not been scheduled

Session type TBD

Proposal No: 34002 From a Grassroots Effort to University Policy: How Northwestern Changed Its Approach to Digital Accessibility

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Court 1

Onsite session

Proposal No: 33979 Revamp Your Accessibility Training

Scheduled for 9:00am on 2021-11-16 in Gov Square 16

Onsite session

Proposal No: 33996 Perceptions of e-learning by d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Ballroom E

Onsite session

Proposal No: 33992 Finding Common Ground Around Digital Accessibility

Scheduled for 3:30pm on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Court 2

Virtual session

Proposal No: 33989 User Engagement – Key to the development of AT products

This session has not been scheduled

Session type TBD

Proposal No: 33988 New W3C-WAI Guidance on Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities

Scheduled for 2:15pm on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 12

Onsite session

Proposal No: 33961 COVID-19 and the Accessibility Spotlight

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 12

Onsite session

Proposal No: 33957 Flexible Trainings to Guide Instructors towards Accessibility

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-19 in Gov Square 15 (Lab)

Onsite session

Proposal No: 33955 OCR’s Year In Review

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Ballroom E

Onsite session

Proposal No: 33953 How the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Resolves Digital Accessibility Investigations

Scheduled for 2:15pm on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Ballroom E

Onsite session

Proposal No: 33946 The Revolving Door: Moving Libraries to an Accessible Digital Environment

Scheduled for 9:15am on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Court 3

Virtual session

Proposal No: 33944 Automatic accessibility checks on online courses: Supporting teachers in getting their homework done

Scheduled for 2:00pm on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 14 (Lab)

Onsite session

Proposal No: 33938 Demystifying PDF Accessibility: Clearing those pesky errors + Unfamiliar Tips

Scheduled for 2:15pm on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Court 2

Virtual session

Proposal No: 33928 CommonLook’s Free Software for Higher Education

Scheduled for 2:15pm on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Court 1

Onsite session

Proposal No: 33926 Upcoming Changes to the Standards: A look at PDF/UA-2

Scheduled for 11:45am on 2021-11-19 in Plaza Court 1

Onsite session

Proposal No: 33922 Website Liability Legal Update (Including Winn-Dixie)

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-17 in Plaza Court 2

Virtual session

Proposal No: 33920 Aligning the Team Effort Toward Accessible Content

Scheduled for 8:00am on in

Virtual session

Proposal No: 33910 Streamlining Captioning Services: Lessons Learned From the Pandemic

Scheduled for 2:00pm on 2021-11-18 in Plaza Court 1

Onsite session

Proposal No: 33905 ARIA Foundations, Patterns and Components for Improving Web Accessibility Development

Scheduled for 8:00am on 2021-11-18 in Gov Square 15 (Lab)

Onsite session

Proposal No: 33892 How can campus-wide digital technologies (such as wayfinding, digital signage &a; self-service kiosks) be made accessible?

Scheduled for 11:15am on 2021-11-17 in Governors Square 15

Onsite session