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Monday 2021

Monday, November 15

Room10:30am MST1:00pm MST2:30pm MST
Gov Square 10

PDF Accessibility Overview

Chad Chelius AbleDocs

Lunch (on your own)

PDF Accessibility Overview (continued)

Chad Chelius AbleDocs

Gov Square 11

1-Day Accessibility Testing Workshop

Karl Groves Tenon

Lunch (on your own)

1-Day Accessibility Testing Workshop (continued)

Karl Groves Tenon

Gov Square 14 (Lab)remote speaker

Accessible Adobe InDesign Layouts to Produce Accessible PDFs (2021)

Bevi Chagnon

Lunch (on your own)
remote speaker

Accessible Adobe InDesign Layouts to Produce Accessible PDFs (2021) (continued)

Bevi Chagnon

Gov Square 15 (Lab)

The Nuts and Bolts: Alternate Format Production Intensive

Susan Kelmer

Lunch (on your own)

The Nuts and Bolts: Alternate Format Production Intensive (continued)

Susan Kelmer

Virtual Room 1
Zoom Access Only
No session
Lunch (on your own)
Virtual pre-conference

Joys of Native app testing

Naveesha Maharaj

10:30am MST

1:00pm MST

  • No session

2:30pm MST

Tuesday Pre-con 2021

Tuesday, November 16

Room9:00am MST12:00pm MST1:30pm MST
Gov Square 10remote speaker

PDF Accessibility Workshop

Bevi Chagnon

Lunch (on your own)
remote speaker

PDF Accessibility Workshop (continued)

Bevi Chagnon

Gov Square 11

Creating more robust Infographics – Beyond Alt-text

Dax Castro

Lunch (on your own)

Creating more robust Infographics – Beyond Alt-text (continued)

Dax Castro

Gov Square 12

Using the Capability Maturity Model to advance accessibility and inclusivity

Cheryl Pruitt

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)
No session
Gov Square 14 (Lab)
No session
Lunch (on your own)
No session
Gov Square 15 (Lab)
No session
Lunch (on your own)
No session
Gov Square 16

Revamp Your Accessibility Training

Christa Miller

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Revamp Your Accessibility Training (continued)

Christa Miller

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Plaza Ballroom D

Create Accessible Documents in Word, PowerPoint, & Excel

George Joeckel

Lunch (on your own)

Create Accessible Documents in Word, PowerPoint, & Excel (continued)

George Joeckel

Virtual Room 1
Zoom Access Only		Virtual pre-conference

Mobile Testing Workshop (2021)

Gian Wild

Lunch (on your own)
Virtual pre-conference

Mobile Testing Workshop (2021) (continued)

Gian Wild

9:00am MST

12:00pm MST

  • No session

1:30pm MST

Wednesday 2021

Wednesday, November 17

Room8:00am MST9:15am MST10:15am MST11:15am MST12:30pm MST2:15pm MST3:30pm MST
Governors Square 10

Accessibility is a moving target

AmyJune Hineline

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Four design strategies to prevent most accessibility issues

Nora Stern Optum

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Accessible Infographic Techniques Beyond Alt-text

Dax Castro

Keynote Lunch
EPUB

Accessibility Metadata – A Digital Textbook Superhero!

Erin Lucas

Make it Stop! The Case Against, and Alternatives To, the Test-for-Free Model

Rob Carr

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Governors Square 11substitute speaker

Beyond VPAT, importance of Accessibility culture aspect in vendor selection

Cheryl Pruitt California University Chancellor's Office

Making Social Media Accessible

Keith Bundy

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

I Didn’t Know Word Could Do That! (or IDK Word Could do That)

Catherine M. Stager

Keynote Lunch

Assessing the Accessibility of Web 2.0 Tools

Wendolyn Velez-Torres

Assessing the Accessibility of Web 2.0 Tools (continued)

Wendolyn Velez-Torres

Governors Square 12

Techquity: Bring Access and Inclusion to All Students on Your Campus

Rachel Kruzel

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

How to Develop an Efficient Accessibility Testing Process

Lyssa Prince

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Holistic Accessibility Across the Penn State University

Binky Lush

Keynote Lunch

New W3C-WAI Guidance on Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities

Lisa Seeman

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

New W3C-WAI Guidance on Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities (continued)

Lisa Seeman

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Governors Square 14
Lab		substitute speaker

PDF Accessibility – Creating accessible forms

Chad Chelius AbleDocs

substitute speaker

PDF Accessibility – Creating accessible forms (continued)

Chad Chelius AbleDocs

Exhibit Hall Break

Independence, Compliance and Beyond: practical solutions for creating accessible media

Lars Ballieu Christensen SensusAccess

Keynote Lunch

Decoding label and name for accessibility

Jonathan Whiting

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Decoding label and name for accessibility (continued)

Jonathan Whiting

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Governors Square 15
Lab

Using the JAWS screen reader to create better digital content

Rachele DiTullio

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Using the JAWS screen reader to create better digital content (continued)

Rachele DiTullio

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

How can campus-wide digital technologies (such as wayfinding, digital signage &a; self-service kiosks) be made accessible?

Laura Miller

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote Lunch
substitute speaker

Checking PDFs for PDF/UA-1 Compliance

Chad Chelius AbleDocs

substitute speaker

Checking PDFs for PDF/UA-1 Compliance (continued)

Chad Chelius AbleDocs

Plaza Ballroom DEPUB

EPUB Crawl: Demystifying Automated eBook Accessibility Testing

Christine Foushi

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Creating a Campus-wide Digital Accessibility Initiative

Kate DeForest

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Taking the Tears Out of Text Language Markup – A Journey

Brian Richwine

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote Lunch

The online accessibility hub: what makes a great institutional accessibility website?

David Sloan

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Replacement Session

People-First Design: Prioritizing Accessibility Needs in Product Development

Sarah Horton

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Plaza Court 1

From a Grassroots Effort to University Policy: How Northwestern Changed Its Approach to Digital Accessibility

Jim Stachowiak

remote speaker

Better Techniques to Make Complex Graphics Accessible

Bevi Chagnon

Exhibit Hall Break
No session
Keynote Lunch

CommonLook’s Free Software for Higher Education

Paul Rayius CommonLook

See Life’s Possibilities Clearly by Choosing the Proper Assistive Technology

Kimberly Cline

Plaza Court 2
Remote Speaker		Virtual A

Website Liability Legal Update (Including Winn-Dixie)

Ken Nakata

Virtual A

Annotations for All: Creating accessible and understandable annotated and marked-up content

Laura Ciporen

Exhibit Hall Break
Virtual A

Intro to Audio Description

Jena Wallace

Keynote Lunch
Virtual A

Demystifying PDF Accessibility: Clearing those pesky errors + Unfamiliar Tips

Brittany Usman

Virtual A

Finding Common Ground Around Digital Accessibility

Lorenzo Milani

Plaza Court 3
Remote Speaker		Virtual B

Strategies for using the Microsoft Immersive Reading Tools

Karen McCall

Virtual B

The Revolving Door: Moving Libraries to an Accessible Digital Environment

Kathryn Weber-Hottleman

Exhibit Hall Break
EPUB Virtual B

Global Certified Accessible Third-party Certification for EPUBs

Charles LaPierre

Keynote Lunch
EPUB Virtual B

Exploring the library accessible content Ecosystem

Michael Johnson

EPUB Virtual B

EPUB Reading Apps Roundup – How to assess EPUB reading systems and how you can Stay Up to date on which to recommend

George Kerscher

Virtual Room 1
Zoom Access Only		Virtual C

Scaling Web Accessibility – University of Phoenix Accessibility SMEs

Janet Fukuda

Virtual C

How and What Syllabi Analysis Can Tell Us About Accessibility, Teaching, and Learning

Melissa Green

Exhibit Hall Break
Virtual C

Implementing a Captioning Program at MIT

Kathy Cahill

Keynote Lunch
Replacement Session Virtual C

Assistive Technology Tools that Facilitate Reading and Writing Skills

Nanci Shepardson

Virtual C

Tips for using Read&Write Text-to-Speech

Karen McCall

Plaza Ballroom E

Creating Accessible Social Media Content

Emily Shuman

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Perceptions of e-learning by d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students

Austin Gehret

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Trending Tech Tools – 2021 Edition: What’s New, What’s Improved & What’s on the Horizon for AT & Accessibility Tools

Rachel Kruzel

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote Lunch

How the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Resolves Digital Accessibility Investigations

Mary Lou Mobley

How the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Resolves Digital Accessibility Investigations (continued)

Mary Lou Mobley

8:00am MST

9:15am MST

10:15am MST

  • No session

11:15am MST

12:30pm MST

  • No session

2:15pm MST

3:30pm MST

Thursday 2021

Thursday, November 18

Room8:00am MST9:15am MST10:15am MST11:15am MST12:30pm MST2:00pm MST3:15pm MST
Gov Square 10

First-Generation Students, Inclusivity and Alternative Formats

Lisa Andion

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Icebreakers into Accessibility

Elizabeth Codick

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

The Bigger Picture of Learning Technology: Leveraging Digital Transformation (Dx) to Advocate for UDL

Katherine Hamilton

Lunch (on your own)
substitute speaker

PDF Accessibility – When is Good Enough, Good Enough?

Christa Miller

Round Tables (Onsite Only)
Gov Square 11

Panel: Do PDFs Belong in our Accessible Future?

Krista Greear Wright

Cross Departmental Accessibility Focus: College-Wide Student Success and Online Courses

Steven Kolberg

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

25 Million Requests for Greater Access: a Review of Student Preferences for Course Accessibility

Krista Greear Wright

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)
No session
Round Tables (Onsite Only)
Gov Square 12

Exploration of the New and Improved Read&Write for Google Chrome Toolbar and PDF Reader

Rachel Kruzel

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

COVID-19 and the Accessibility Spotlight

Christa Miller

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Accessibility in Procurement: How to Read a VPAT

Terrill Thompson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Accessible Color: Dos and Don’ts

Dax Castro

Round Tables (Onsite Only)
Gov Square 14 (Lab)

[CANCELLED] Beyond “99 Red Balloons” – A Pragmatic guide to alternative text

AmyJune Hineline

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

[CANCELLED] Beyond “99 Red Balloons” – A Pragmatic guide to alternative text (continued)

AmyJune Hineline

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Case For Adding Accessibility in Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering Curriculums

Caroline Hart

Lunch (on your own)

Automatic accessibility checks on online courses: Supporting teachers in getting their homework done

Gottfried Zimmermann

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Tables (Onsite Only)
Gov Square 15 (Lab)

ARIA Foundations, Patterns and Components for Improving Web Accessibility Development

Dennis Lembree

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

ARIA Foundations, Patterns and Components for Improving Web Accessibility Development (continued)

Dennis Lembree

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break
No session
Lunch (on your own)

The Intersection of Universal Design and User Experience (UX) in Design Thinking

Jodi Arnold

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Tables (Onsite Only)
Plaza Ballroom D

Making an Online Science Lab Accessible to All

Carrie Hansel

Cancelled

[Cancelled] Accessible Documents Made Easy: Introducing T-Base’s Self-Serve Transcription Tool

Jeff Jullion T-Base Communications

Exhibit Hall Break

Managing Alternate Media Student Staff Remotely in the Pandemic and Beyond  

Annissa Stout

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Easily Make Your Website and Digital Content More Accessible, Usable and Readable with ReachDeck

Rachel Kruzel

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Tables (Onsite Only)
Plaza Court 1

Breaking through the Apathy Fog: An Awareness Campaign for Digital Accessibility in Higher Education

Michele Bromley

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Three behaviors for developers getting started with accessibility

Nora Stern Optum

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Low cost, high impact user research with people with disabilities

David Sloan

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Streamlining Captioning Services: Lessons Learned From the Pandemic

Michael Mace

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Tables (Onsite Only)
Plaza Court 2
Remote Speaker		Virtual A

Designing the Digital Accessibility Gateway: Using Data to Create Sustainability and Culture

Jessica Guess

Virtual A

Why Universal Design for Learning (UDL) / Inclusion Matters

Anne Osowski

Exhibit Hall Break
Virtual A

Browser Extensions For All – “We’re Different, We’re the Same”

Rosie Arcuri

Lunch (on your own)
Virtual A

How to read a VPAT and Accessibility Conformance Report

Gian Wild

Round Tables (Onsite Only)
Plaza Court 3
Remote Speaker		Virtual B

Academic Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Post-Secondary Students with and Without Disabilities

Catherine Fichten

Virtual B

Common Accessibility Questions by Online Learners

Elizabeth Simister

Exhibit Hall Break
Virtual B

Curricula on Web Accessibility: Build, Compare and Select Courses on Web Accessibility

Daniel Montalvo

Lunch (on your own)
Virtual B

Bookshare Making Math Accessible One Image at a Time

Charles LaPierre

Round Tables (Onsite Only)
Virtual Room 1
Zoom Access Only		Virtual C

Tools for Automating the Creation of MP3s

Joseph Polizzotto

Virtual C

How has Covid-19 affected mobile tech use by students with disabilities?

Mary Jorgensen Adaptech Research Network

Exhibit Hall Break
Virtual C

Bookshare Reader: A New beginning for Accessible Reading with Bookshare

Charles LaPierre

Lunch (on your own)
Virtual C

Finding Our Place: Creating a Culture of Accessibility at the University of Texas at San Antonio

RaLynn McGuire

Round Tables (Onsite Only)
Plaza Ballroom E

OCR’s Year In Review

Mary Lou Mobley

OCR’s Year In Review (continued)

Mary Lou Mobley

Exhibit Hall Break

Automated Generation of Tactile Mathematics

Volker Sorge

Lunch (on your own)

Help! How Can I Deal with Increased Needs Without Increased Staff Levels?

Terrill Thompson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Tables (Onsite Only)
Plaza Court 4EPUB

The Essentials of Modern Born Accessible Publishing on your campus

George Kerscher

Spoken Presentation in HTML

Irfan Ali

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Simplifying Web Accessibility at Any Scale

Jay Pope

Lunch (on your own)
new session

How Voice Transforms The Learning Experience

Paul Stisser

Round Tables (Onsite Only)

8:00am MST

9:15am MST

10:15am MST

  • No session

11:15am MST

12:30pm MST

  • No session

2:00pm MST

3:15pm MST

  • No session

Friday 2021

Friday, November 19

Room8:00am MST9:15am MST10:30am MST11:45am MST
Gov Square 10
Virtual-only Round Tables

Understanding The Digital Tools And Technology At Your Fingertips – You Don’t Need To Be An Expert!

Crystal Rose Hill-Farrell

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Understanding The Digital Tools And Technology At Your Fingertips – You Don’t Need To Be An Expert! (continued)

Crystal Rose Hill-Farrell

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Evaluating Web Accessibility: How Hard Can it Be?

Jonathan Whiting

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Gov Square 11
Virtual-only Round Tables

Audio Description: There’s An App For That!

Joel Snyder, PhD

Affecting Digital Accessibility Change through Scalable Procurement Workflows

Michele Bromley

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

No session
Gov Square 12
Virtual-only Round Tables

The evolution of innovative technology for accessible STEM

Vijayshree Vethantham

Finding Sustainability through Digital Accessibility

Mike Paciello AbleDocs

A11y, AI & Machine Learning: Opportunities & Threats

Christopher Land

Gov Square 14 (Lab)
Virtual-only Round Tables
Cancelled

[Cancelled] PDF Accessibility – What to do with those pesky tables in your PDF document

Rob Haverty

Cancelled

[Cancelled] PDF Accessibility – What to do with those pesky tables in your PDF document (continued)

Rob Haverty

No session
Gov Square 15 (Lab)
Virtual-only Round Tables

Flexible Trainings to Guide Instructors towards Accessibility

Laura Jervis

No session
No session
Plaza Court 1
Virtual-only Round Tables

Teach Access: On A Mission to Ensure Products Are Born Accessible

Kate Sonka

No session

Upcoming Changes to the Standards: A look at PDF/UA-2

Paul Rayius CommonLook

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Plaza Court 2
Remote Speaker
Virtual-only Round Tables
Virtual A

Accessible Interactive Simulations for Science Learning

Brett Fiedler University of Colorado Boulder

Virtual A

Turning Math Into HTML

Joseph Polizzotto

Virtual A

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

Joan Concilio

Plaza Court 3
Remote Speaker
Virtual-only Round Tables
Virtual B

Underpinning Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives with a Universal Design Framework

Sheryl Burgstahler

Virtual B

A Qualitative Analysis of Remote Learning Benefits and Barriers Among Students with Disabilities

Rebecca Mushtare

Virtual B

Building a Culture of Accessibility: Accessing Wellness Resources to Improve Learning Environments

Heather Flett

Plaza Court 4
Virtual-only Round Tables

Easy Accessibility for Chemistry

Volker Sorge

Browser Extension to Support College Learning

Catherine M. Stager

Campus-wide Development and Practices of an Independent Accessible Technology Office

Allyson Bartley

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Virtual Room 1
Zoom Access
Virtual-only Round Tables
Virtual C

Breaking the Cycle: Building Accessibility into the Content Development Process

Jeff Singleton

Virtual C

How to get Faculty Interested in Alt Text: Providing Purpose in UDL and Access Training

Justi Echeles

Virtual C

Peer-Focused Assistive Technology Support

Cassandra LePouttre

8:00am MST

  • No session

9:15am MST

10:30am MST

11:45am MST