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Monday Pre-con

Monday, November 14

Room10:30am1:00pm2:30pm
Standley I Lab

Alternate Format: It’s Not Just Handing a Student a Publisher PDF

Susan Kelmer

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Alternate Format: It’s Not Just Handing a Student a Publisher PDF (continued)

Susan Kelmer

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Westminster I
Virtual Pre-Conference Track

Evaluating Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) for University Procurement

James Jackson

Lunch (on your own)

Writing video transcripts, captions and audio descriptions

Gian Wild

Westminster II

Web Accessibility 101 with Accessible University 3.0

Terrill Thompson

Lunch (on your own)

Web Accessibility 101 with Accessible University 3.0 (continued)

Terrill Thompson

Westminster III

Evaluating Web Accessibility

Jared Smith

Lunch (on your own)

ARIA Implementation – Moving Beyond the Basics

Jared Smith

Standley II Lab

Creating Accessible forms using Adobe Acrobat Pro

Karen McCall

Lunch (on your own)

Creating Accessible forms using Adobe Acrobat Pro (continued)

Karen McCall

Westminster IV

Working with Inaccessible PDFs

Gaeir Dietrich

Lunch (on your own)

Working with Inaccessible PDFs (continued)

Gaeir Dietrich

10:30am

1:00pm

  • No session

2:30pm

Tuesday Pre-con

Tuesday, November 15

Room9:00am12:00pm1:30pm
Westminster I

Teaching You to Teach Others about STEM Accessibility

Krista Greear

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Creating Tactile Graphics, Geeky to Artsy Approaches

Robert Beach

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Westminster II
Virtual Pre-Conference Track

Mobile Accessibility Strategies & Standards – What new in 2016?

Kathleen Wahlbin

Lunch (on your own)

Mobile Accessibility Strategies & Standards – What new in 2016? (continued)

Kathleen Wahlbin

Westminster III
Virtual Pre-Conference Track

Advanced Accessibility: Deep Dive for Developers

Eric Eggert

Lunch (on your own)

Simplify your development life with tools, tests and procedures

Eric Eggert

Westminster IV

Testing for Accessibility with Common Screen Readers

Hadi Rangin

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Testing for Accessibility with Common Screen Readers (continued)

Hadi Rangin

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Standley I Lab

Accessible Adobe InDesign Layouts (to Produced Accessible PDFs and EPUBs)

Bevi Chagnon

Lunch (on your own)

Accessible Adobe InDesign Layouts (to Produced Accessible PDFs and EPUBs) (continued)

Bevi Chagnon

Standley II Lab

Implementing WCAG 2.0 with HTML5 and ARIA Techniques

Jon Gunderson

Lunch (on your own)

Implementing WCAG 2.0 with HTML5 and ARIA Techniques (continued)

Jon Gunderson

9:00am

12:00pm

  • No session

1:30pm

Wednesday

Wednesday, November 16

Room8:00am9:15am10:15am11:15am12:20pm2:15pm3:30pm
Waverly

Voice Over and Mac 101

Robert Beach

The Future of Web Accessibility Research: Surveys, User Testing, and Beyond

Jared Smith

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Make PeopleSoft Self-Service Applications Accessible with GreyHeller PeopleMobile®

Hendrix Bodden

Keynote Lunch

Assistive Tech for Note Taking: A preliminary comparison study of Livescribe Echo Pens vs. Sonocent Audio Notetaker

Emily Helft

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Using Canvas for Asynchronous Online Training – A Complete Training Platform.

Kelly Roberts

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Meadowbrook I/II
Virtual Track A

Effectively Accommodating Low Vision Students

Jenna Atkinson

Promoting the Universal Design Paradigm on Campus—Everywhere

Sheryl Burgstahler

Exhibit Hall Break

Grackle Docs: One Click Accessibility for Google Docs

Paul Walker

Keynote Lunch

DIY Captioning – Using Camtasia & YouTube to create caption files

Jane Melander

Talking to Faculty about Accessibility

Gaeir Dietrich

Standley I Lab
Virtual Track B

Automated Testing Tools Crash Course

Luis Garcia

Automated Testing Tools Crash Course (continued)

Luis Garcia

Exhibit Hall Break

An Introduction to Accessibility Testing for Mobile Apps

Jeffrey Singleton

Keynote Lunch

Generating and Using Accessible Mathematics on the Web

Volker Sorge

Generating and Using Accessible Mathematics on the Web (continued)

Volker Sorge

Cotton Creek I

What One School Learned from DOJ/OCR Rulings at Other Institutions

Sheryl Burgstahler

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

University of Maryland IT Accessibility Plan. From design to implementation.

Ana Palla-Kane

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Tips, Tricks and Best Practices for Ensuring PDF Accessibility

Bob Hall

Keynote Lunch

OCR’s Year In Review

Mary Lou Mobley

OCR’s Year In Review (continued)

Mary Lou Mobley

Standley II Lab

Captioning, Critically and Creatively

Brenda Brueggemann

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Captioning, Critically and Creatively (continued)

Brenda Brueggemann

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Common Accessibility Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)

Kim Phillips

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote Lunch

The WAI to Web Accessibility

Sharron Rush

The WAI to Web Accessibility (continued)

Sharron Rush

Cotton Creek II

SVG – making interactive graphics accessible

Charles McCathie Nevile

Best practices for digitizing note-taking accommodations

Dave Tucker

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Case studies on novel web accessibility technology in education

David Young

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote Lunch

Teach Access: Bringing accessible design and development learning to higher ed

Larry Goldberg

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

PDF, AcroForms, XFA, and Charles Babbage – Creating Accessible Forms with PDF

Greg Pisocky

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Windsor

Updates to social media accessibility in 2016

Gian Wild

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Getting Ahead of the Curve: Scalable, Accessible, Enterprise-class Video on the Web

John Foliot

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

MAGpie reboot: new, free caption-authoring software from WGBH’s NCAM

Bryan Gould

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote Lunch

Accessibility Testing Tools for Developers

Gerard Cohen

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Data-Driven Instructional Design: Higher Learning Student and Professor Voices

Laura King

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

WB I
Taped

Sharing accessible materials: building collaborative repositories and registries

Sue-Ann Ma

ADA and the Internet – Legal Update

Beth Crutchfield

Exhibit Hall Break

Subject area studies as a means to involve faculty and increase accessibility

Phyllis Petteys

Keynote Lunch

15 Years After an OCR Suit: NC State University’s Accessibility Refresh

Grey Reavis

Social Media, Accessibility, and You

John Foliot

WB II
Taped

ARIA: What, Why and When

Philip Kragnes

Accessible Media Training: Design Considerations for Faculty and/or Student Affairs Staff

Brad Held

Exhibit Hall Break

One size does not fit all: Exploring the boundaries of design & inclusive ux

Denis Boudreau

Keynote Lunch

Web Accessibility: Converting PDFs to WCAG 2.0 Compliant HTML

Patrick McGovern

Mobile: what not to do

Gian Wild

WB III

Free and Low-Cost Reading Tools for the Common Man

Susan Kelmer

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Canvas Accessibility: Toward an Accessible LMS

Hadi Rangin

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break
No session
Keynote Lunch
No session

The Movement Toward a Global Inclusive Education Standard

Karen McCall

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

WB IV

11 Ways to Increase Technology Usage on Campus cancelled

Kay Tepera

Access to Online Courses: The Perspective of Students with Vision Impairment

Maureen Linden

Exhibit Hall Break
No session
Keynote Lunch
No session

Accessibility Across the Institution: Who Needs to be Involved?

Rob Carr

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

8:00am

9:15am

10:15am

  • No session

11:15am

12:20pm

  • No session

2:15pm

3:30pm

Thursday

Thursday, November 17

Room8:00am9:15am10:15am11:15am12:20pm2:15pm3:15pm4:00pm
Waverly

Maintaining Accessibility in the Modern Classroom

Christa Miller

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Creating Accessible PeopleSoft Self-Service Applications

Hendrix Bodden

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Microsoft Outlook Accessibility Collaboration

Hadi Rangin

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

The Need to Consider Built Environment and IT Accessibility Together – A Case Study

Ken Nakata

Meadowbrook I/II
Virtual Track A

A Review of Apps & Strategies for Converting and Accessing Print and Digital Material

Felicia Arce

Translating Visual Information into Tactile Information

Nicole Johnson

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

LaTeX and MathML – What Content Creators Need to Know

Krista Greear

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Interactive maps: how do you make them accessible?

Gian Wild

Standley I Lab

Comparing the CommonLook PDF Validator and the PAC (PDF Accessibility Checker)

Karen McCall

Comparing the CommonLook PDF Validator and the PAC (PDF Accessibility Checker) (continued)

Karen McCall

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

PDF ”Death Match!”

Karen McCall

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

5 Keys for Implementing A11y in Your Team

Angela Hooker

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Cotton Creek I
Virtual Track B

Open Source Tools for Evaluating and Inspecting Web Accessibility

Jon Gunderson

PDFs and Professors: What is Reasonable to Ask of Instructors

Krista Greear

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

When to test or trust vendor accessibility evaluations.

Susan Cullen

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Building an Accessibility Procurement Process in Higher Education

Kara Zirkle

Standley II Lab

Generating Audio-Tactile and Web-Accessible SVG Graphics

Volker Sorge

Generating Audio-Tactile and Web-Accessible SVG Graphics (continued)

Volker Sorge

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Accessibility Crash Course for Web Developers

Dan Lewis

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

ARIA Serious?

Eric Eggert

Cotton Creek II

Unwebbing Web Accessibility in Higher Ed.: It’s More Than Just Web Pages

Howard Kramer

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Results & Takeaways from a National Study on Closed Captioning in Higher Education

Lily Bond

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Bridging the Accessibility Gap: Improving Communication and Collaboration with Faculty

Laura Loree

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

There’s An App for That! All About Adaptech’s Free and/or Inexpensive Technology Database

Jillian Budd

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Windsor

CIC Accessibility Collaboration, A Model for multi-institution collaboration

Joe Humbert

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

AIMHub: Next Generation Accessible Media Tracking, Exchange, and Management

Jack Sullivan

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Producing advanced alternate media with SensusAccess

Lars Ballieu Christensen

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Campus-wide response to captioning: Moving towards full compliance

Dawn Hunziker

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

WB I
Taped

Creating a Culture of Accessible Procurement at Michigan State University: Library and College/Department Perspectives

Heidi Schroeder

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Video player accessibility

Gian Wild

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Vendor Tips on Accessible Procurement

Elizabeth Delfs

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Digital Accessibility Trends

Beth Crutchfield

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

WB II
Taped

Semantic Subtleties

Eric Eggert

Accessibility Testing or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore WCAG

Luis Garcia

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

The Future of Closed Captioning

Lily Bond

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

What’s new in Microsoft Office 365 and how can it help create accessible content and personalize learning experiences

Malavika Rewari

WB III

What To Expect When the Government Comes Knocking on Your Virtual Door

Ken Nakata

What To Expect When the Government Comes Knocking on Your Virtual Door (continued)

Ken Nakata

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own
No session
Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Evaluation of DE Coursework Accessibility for Students with Disabilities

Roger Smith

WB IV

UDL & Breaking Down the Barriers at UK- a Case Study

Deb Castiglione

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

The Road To Sustainable Accessibility

John Foliot

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own
No session
Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Marketing Accessibility on Your Campus

Christopher Phillips

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

8:00am

9:15am

10:15am

  • No session

11:15am

  • No session

12:20pm

  • No session

2:15pm

3:15pm

  • No session

4:00pm

Friday

Friday, November 18

Room8:00am9:15am10:30am11:45am
Waverly
Round Table/Unconference

Closing the Gaps with the Doorman Project

Douglas Loo

Usability and Accessibility have a conversation: how accessibility and UI/UX teams can collaborate for more inclusive products

Jiatyan Chen

Digital Inclusivity: Strategies for Implementing New AT on College Campuses

Michele Bromley

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Meadowbrook I
Virtual Track A
Round Table/Unconference

Accessibility and the California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative – Lessons Learned

Jayme Johnson

A Little Means a Lot: Simple Ways to Improve Online Course Accessibility

Jennifer Perkins

WordPress & ATAG Compliance

Joe Dolson

Meadowbrook II
Round Table/Unconference

Reverse Pictionary: Do accessibility and UDL practices really make a difference?

Valorie Sundby

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

No session

Improving UX for Students with Disabilities in REVEL

Chris Langston

Standley I Lab
Virtual Track B
Round Table/Unconference

Advanced Techniques for PDF Accessibility

Rob Haverty

Advanced Techniques for PDF Accessibility (continued)

Rob Haverty

The Universal College Campus – Accessible Technology for All

Brad Held

Cotton Creek I
Round Table/Unconference

Social Media Accessibility – Importance for Jobseekers

Eliza Greenwood

Failure is not an option: Access to education in the digital world

Denis Boudreau

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Annual Student Edition of JAWS Screen Reader and MAGic Screen Magnification Offered by American Printing House

Carlos Herrera

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Standley II Lab
Round Table/Unconference

Accessible Instructional Material Bootcamp

Jackie Luft, Ed.D.

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Accessible Instructional Material Bootcamp (continued)

Jackie Luft, Ed.D.

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Best Practices for Accessible Instructional Videos

Jackie Luft, Ed.D.

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Cotton Creek II
Round Table/Unconference

A Year of Remediation: Content and Cultural Change at a Higher Education Learning Company

Rachel Comerford

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

AT Outcomes in Post-Secondary Students with Disabilities: the Influence of Diagnosis, Gender, and Year in School

Marla Roll

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Jobs in Accessibility Field Redux

Elianna James

Windsor
Round Table/Unconference

Second Life for Mentoring of Students with Disabilities: Findings from Qualitative Research

Nathan Moon

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Concurrent Development of EIT Accessibility Programs at Four Colleges in Western Massachusetts

Rob Eveleigh

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Take accessibility beyond compliance to a learning experience that serves all learners.

Jessica Wilson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

WB I
Round Table/Unconference

Implementing Accessibility at Your Institution – Lessons Learned at the University of Alabama

Rachel Thompson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

No session
No session
WB II
Round Table/Unconference
No session
No session
No session

8:00am

  • No session

9:15am

10:30am

11:45am