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Schedule 2017

Monday

Monday, November 13

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

NVDA Workshop

Robert Beach

Lunch (on your own)
No session
Westminster I (virtual)

Virtual Communication Access: Is it for me?

Tia Ivanko

Lunch (on your own)

Creating a Sustainable Captioning Program at Your Institution

Jane Melander

Westminster II

Accessibility 101 (2-day workshop)

Terrill Thompson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Accessibility 101 (2-day workshop) (continued)

Terrill Thompson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Westminster III
2-day session - continues on Tuesday

BYO Device Lab: PDF Train the Trainer: Learn how to teach others to create accessible PDFs and become an Adobe certified trainer (2-day workshop)

Rob Haverty

Lunch (on your own)

BYO Device Lab: PDF Train the Trainer: Learn how to teach others to create accessible PDFs and become an Adobe certified trainer (2-day workshop) (continued)

Rob Haverty

Standley II lab

Introduction to Online Course Accessibility

Joseph Feria-Galicia

Lunch (on your own)

Introduction to Online Course Accessibility (continued)

Joseph Feria-Galicia

Westminster IV

Creating and Exporting Word and PowerPoint Documents to Create Accessible PDFs with Acrobat Professional

George Joeckel

Lunch (on your own)

Voice Over on the Mac Computer Workshop

Robert Beach

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Cotton Creek I
No session
Lunch (on your own)

Increasing Web Accessibility With ARIA: A Crash Course

Hadi Rangin

10:30am MST

1:00pm MST

  • No session

2:30pm MST

Tuesday

Tuesday, November 14

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

Accessibility in Organizations and Planning

Rob Carr

Lunch (on your own)

EPUB 101: Understanding the Structure and Contents of an ePUB

Rachel Comerford

Keynote
Westminster II

Accessibility 101 (2-day workshop) (continued)

Terrill Thompson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Accessibility 101 (2-day workshop) (continued)

Terrill Thompson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote
Westminster III

BYO Device Lab: PDF Train the Trainer: Learn how to teach others to create accessible PDFs and become an Adobe certified trainer (2-day workshop) (continued)

Rob Haverty

Lunch (on your own)

BYO Device Lab: PDF Train the Trainer: Learn how to teach others to create accessible PDFs and become an Adobe certified trainer (2-day workshop) (continued)

Rob Haverty

Keynote
Westminster IV
2-day session - cont'd from Monday		UDUC

Teach Access Faculty Bootcamp at AHG 2017

Larry Goldberg

Lunch (on your own)
No session
Keynote
Standley I Lab

Web Accessibility Evaluation and the use of Web Standards

Jon Gunderson

Lunch (on your own)

Web Accessibility Evaluation and the use of Web Standards (continued)

Jon Gunderson

Keynote
Standley II Lab
No session
Lunch (on your own)
No session
Keynote
Meadowbrook I

Alt Text Pipeline Production Process

Wink Harner

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Alt Text Pipeline Production Process (continued)

Wink Harner

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote
Meadowbrook II

Mobile Accessibility Challenges, Best Practices and Techniques

Kathleen Wahlbin

Lunch (on your own)

Mobile Accessibility Challenges, Best Practices and Techniques (continued)

Kathleen Wahlbin

Keynote
Cotton Creek II

Visual Braille Bootcamp

Christa Miller

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Visual Braille Bootcamp (continued)

Christa Miller

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote
Cotton Creek I
No session
Lunch (on your own)
No session
Keynote

9:00am MST

12:00pm MST

  • No session

1:30pm MST

7:00pm MST

  • No session

Wednesday 2017

Wednesday, November 15

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

Creating inclusive learning environments with Microsoft Accessibility

Malavika Rewari

Creating inclusive learning environments with Microsoft Accessibility (continued)

Malavika Rewari

Exhibit Hall Break

Accessibility of Bibliography Software

Alisa Louther

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch break - on your own

Creating a sustainable document accessibility strategy… beyond just tagging PDFs!

Adam Spencer

How the University of Connecticut Supports the Transition to College with AT

Amer Latif

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Meadowbrook I/II (Virtual Track A)

Working with Vendors: techniques to assess and ensure accessible products and services

Lisa Sawin

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Updates to social media accessibility in 2017

Gian Wild

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Comparing WCAG 2.0 to PDF/UA: Understanding the Standards and Mitigating Risk

Paul Rayius

Lunch break - on your own

Audio Description in Higher Education

Terrill Thompson

Audio Description in Higher Education (continued)

Terrill Thompson

Standley I Lab (Virtual Track A)

Tips and Tricks for Accessible PDFs

Rob Haverty

Tips and Tricks for Accessible PDFs (continued)

Rob Haverty

Exhibit Hall Break
No session
Lunch break - on your own

Walk Through WAI Resources

Sharron Rush

Walk Through WAI Resources (continued)

Sharron Rush

Cotton Creek I (Virtual Track B)

Low-cost, system-wide web accessibility evaluations

George Joeckel

Intro to Audio Description

Lily Bond

Exhibit Hall Break

A training program for simple manual evaluation of websites and the use of automated testing tools — a blended approach

Susan Cullen

Lunch break - on your own

Extreme Accessibility

Karl Groves

Ally: Accessibility training, and remediation, and tracking. Oh my!

Jess Thompson

Standley II Lab

Math Accessibility: It’s Finally Here!

Paul Brown

What can be tested and how? Strengths and weaknesses of automated testing

Karl Groves

Exhibit Hall Break
No session
Lunch break - on your own

Generating Audio-Tactile and Web-Accessible SVG Graphics- Year 2

John Gardner

Generating Audio-Tactile and Web-Accessible SVG Graphics- Year 2 (continued)

John Gardner

Cotton Creek II

Online Learning Accessibility in Open Education

Mary Ziegler

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Recipe for Rapid Web Accessibility and Continued Success!

Ken Nakata

Exhibit Hall Break

The stories behind universal design, accessibility and diversity: a video curriculum for faculty

Allison Swanson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch break - on your own

So you have a policy on ICT, what do you do when everything becomes an exception?

Jamie Axelrod

So you have a policy on ICT, what do you do when everything becomes an exception? (continued)

Jamie Axelrod

Windsor

Innovative Remote CART Technology Setups to Deliver Quality Audio and Great Student Experiences

Patrick Sweeney

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Implementing GreyHeller PeopleMobile® in PeopleSoft Campus Solutions: Lessons Learned

Brad Baker

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Addressing the Gap in Tactile Graphic Resources: Current and Future Projects

Nicole Johnson

Lunch break - on your own

Incorporating Digital Accessibility with Project Management in Jira

Ann Greazel

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

How PDF/UA makes a PDF Document More Accessible than WCAG Alone

Bevi Chagnon

WB I (UDUC mini-conference)UDUC

Panel: Universal Design: from Teaching to Practice

Hadi Rangin

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

UDUC

Integrating UD into a certificate program in online teaching

Sheryl Burgstahler

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break
UDUC

Strategies and Resources for Teaching About Inclusive Design and Accessibility in Technology and Design Courses

Larry Goldberg

Lunch break - on your own

Student-Created Content Counts: Making all University Content Accessible by 2020

Carolyn Speer

Teaching faculty about universal design and accessibility through OSM (pronounced “awesome”) course

Kate Miller

WB II (Taped)

Inclusive UX design techniques for ethically sensitive online experiences

David Sloan

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

An exploratory study examining how students with print disabilities navigate accessible documents

Korey Singleton

Exhibit Hall Break

Using MathType to Create Accessible Math Graphs

Darrin Evans

Lunch break - on your own

Tools for Automating The Captioning of Video

Joseph Polizzotto

Tools for Automating The Captioning of Video (continued)

Joseph Polizzotto

WB III (Taped)

Website Liability Under US Accessibility Laws

Ken Nakata

Improving University Websites by Integrating Functional Accessibility Testing into CMS Theme Development Processes

Robert Fentress

Exhibit Hall Break

Have you thought about what AT has to offer students with mental health considerations?

Shannon Lavey

Lunch break - on your own

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

Dawn Hunziker

Using an SLC (Staff Learning Community) to Share UDL & Accessibility Strategies

Deb Castiglione

WB IV

Making Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Education Accessible

Shilpi Kapoor

Digital Accessibility Trends in Education

Kim Phillips

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Engaging student workers to advance inclusion for students with disabilities

Nazely Kurkjian

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch break - on your own

ARIA 1.1 Authoring Practices

Jon Gunderson

IT Accessibility on Campus: from procurement to implementation

Hadi Rangin

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lakehouse

One Problem, Two Success Criteria: WCAG 2.1, Sausage Making, and a Carrot & Stick (A Case Study)

John Foliot

UDUC

Developing an Accessible MOOC to Teach ICT Accessibility

Zerrin Ondin

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Constantly Improving: Creating an Accessible Campus

Michael Cole

Lunch break - on your own

A framework for improving accessibility in massive open online courses

Kyle Shachmut

UDUC

University-wide Accessibility: Supporting all Students and Faculty with Disabilities in Higher Education

Carlos Herrera

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 2017

Thursday, November 16

Room8:00am MST9:15am MST10:15am MST11:15am MST12:20pm MST2:15pm MST3:15pm MST4:00pm MST
Waverly

Braille for College Level STEM Courses

Christa Miller

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Braille for College Level STEM Courses (continued)

Christa Miller

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Sustaining Web Accessibility at the Penn State University Libraries

Binky Lush

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Navigating the Path to Accessibility

Kim Phillips

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Meadowbrook I/II (Virtual Track A)

Panel: The Power of Collective Negotiation: How can universities work together to require accessible vendor products?

Pramila Patel

Panel: The Power of Collective Negotiation: How can universities work together to require accessible vendor products? (continued)

Pramila Patel

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Faculty Professional Development for Building Accessible Online Courses

Lene Whitley-Putz

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Building a Procurement Process around Accessibility

Kara Zirkle

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Standley I Lab (Virtual Track A)

Introduction to Accessible PDFs

Rob Haverty

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Introduction to Accessible PDFs (continued)

Rob Haverty

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

What’s new in Acrobat

Rob Haverty

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

What’s new in Acrobat (continued)

Rob Haverty

Cotton Creek I (Virtual Track B)

Teaching the creation of accessible educational materials through an e-learning course

Lars Ballieu Christensen

Balancing Automated Scanning, Manual Testing and Assistive Technology for Successful Website Accessibility Testing

Jeffrey Singleton

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Developing Faculty Who are Accessibility Champions

Christa Miller

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

How much accessibility testing do I really need to do?

Luis Garcia

Standley II Lab

Providing access to text for students with reading/learning disabilities using Kurzweil 3000: A community college perspective

Pamela Starks-Brooks

Providing access to text for students with reading/learning disabilities using Kurzweil 3000: A community college perspective (continued)

Pamela Starks-Brooks

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Crucial Conversations for Getting to Yes and Getting Past No

Krista Greear Wright

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Creating an “I-Plan”: Ensure that Accessibility is Addressed throughout the Development Process

Naveesha Maharaj

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Cotton Creek II

Interactive map accessibility

Gian Wild

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Moving from a Web Policy to an EIT Standard: Success and Growing Pains We Experienced

Dean Brusnighan

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Preparing for the Government Knock on Your Door

Ken Nakata

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Using Android with a screen reader: What’s it Like?

Robert Beach

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Windsor

UC Denver: Best Practices for Ensuring Students Properly Adopt Your New AT

Amer Latif

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

A11yFirst for CKEditor: Support Creating of Accessible Web Documents through User Interface Enhancements

Jon Gunderson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Accessible Website Procurement – Tips for successfully engaging an agency partner

Jordan Wilson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Building a Plan to Help Educators Through the OCR Resolution Process

Kevin Rydberg

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

WB I (UDUC mini-conference)

3D Graphic Usability for Objects Designed for Users with Visual Impairments

Elizabeth Pyatt

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Documents in the Classroom: A Strategy to Support Accessible Course Material

Jeff Buhse

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

The State of Closed Captioning in Higher Education

Lily Bond

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break
UDUC

Integrating Universal Design and Accessibility into a Distance Education Graduate Certificate Program

Deb Castiglione

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

WB II (Taped)

Contracting Language for Accessible Documents

Bevi Chagnon

Tips for collaboration between disability and technology services

Sheryl Burgstahler

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Video player accessibility

Gian Wild

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Teaching Faculty Something, but Not TOO Much

Sheryl Burgstahler

WB III (Taped)

The IDPF and W3C Merger: Understanding the future of accessible ebook standards

Rachel Comerford

Creating an accessible environment and enabling student success

Christopher Aldin

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

The W3C Accessible Online Learning Community Group—what have we done and what should we do next?

David Sloan

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Web Accessibility – What do web professionals say?

Kimberly Doberstein

WB IV

Automating accessibility within the learning management system

Jeremy Olguin

OCR’s Year In Review

Mary Lou Mobley

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Year 2 Update – A Centralized Approach to EIT Accessibility at Four Colleges in Western Massachusetts

Rob Eveleigh

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Campus Orientation via Electronic Access for Blind and Visually Impaired

Jim Kessler

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lakehouse

WCAG 2.1 – What's Coming, When to Expect it, and its Impact on Section 508

John Foliot

Vendor collaboration: From IT Accessibility Evaluation to Designing with Accessibility

Hadi Rangin

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Defining The Profession: Tomorrow's Accessibility Specialists

Samantha Evans

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Captioning – Its impact is greater than you think!

Eileen Hopkins

8:00am MST

9:15am MST

10:15am MST

  • No session

11:15am MST

  • No session

12:20pm MST

  • No session

2:15pm MST

3:15pm MST

  • No session

4:00pm MST

Friday

Friday, November 17

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

How to Conduct Disability Services Research for Outcomes Monitoring and Outcomes Improvement

Zerrin Ondin

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

How to Conduct Disability Services Research for Outcomes Monitoring and Outcomes Improvement (continued)

Zerrin Ondin

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Accessibility, Universal Design, and Usability: Promoting an Inclusive Campus

Christopher Phillips

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Meadowbrook I (Virtual Track A)
Round Table/Unconference

Section 508 Refresh

Kim Phillips

Advancing the Accessibility Profession in Higher Education

Sharon Spencer

ePUB versus PDF: ePUB is the new standard for accessible ebooks

Rachel Comerford

Meadowbrook II
Round Table/Unconference

Our Road to Accessibility; Partnering Across Teams

Lisa Nicks

Running an accessibility testing lab – Model Versus Reality

Amelia Dickerson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Using technology to ensure access and inclusion for students with psychiatric disabilities in postsecondary education

Scott Kupferman

Standley I Lab
Round Table/Unconference

An Introduction to 3D Printing Technology for Accessibility Accommodations

Elizabeth Pyatt

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

An Introduction to 3D Printing Technology for Accessibility Accommodations (continued)

Elizabeth Pyatt

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

No session
Cotton Creek I (Virtual Track B)
Round Table/Unconference

Taking the “Alt” out of Alternate Media: Converting instructional materials into accessible formats for all students

Scott Kupferman

The Question Still Remains: How Do I Know You Know Accessibility?

Michele Williams

It Takes a Village: Utilizing People, Systems, and Technology to Scale Online Course Accessibility

Nancy Swenson

Standley II Lab
Round Table/Unconference
No session
No session
No session
Cotton Creek II (UDUC mini-conference)
Round Table/Unconference
UDUC

Universal Design: An Intercultural Perspective

Foad Hamidi

UDUC

How Does an Accessibility Curriculum Impact Student Professional Life and Practice?

Marc Thompson

UDUC

Seeing Disability Differently…By Design: Developing Online UDL Training for Teachers with a Disability Studies Focus

Chris Lanterman

Windsor
Round Table/Unconference

Collaborative Efforts to Promote Access in Higher Education in the State of Iowa

Todd Weissenberger

Community: Reimagining our work as possibility, ownership, dissent, commitment, and gifts

Scott Marshall

AIMHub: Demo of Alt. Media Exchange System, for Campuses by Campuses

Cheryl Pruitt

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

WB I
Round Table/Unconference

Screen Readers and CSS: Are We Going Out of Style (and into Content)?

John Northup

Maybe Level AAA is not so bad?

Gerard Cohen

No session
WB II
Round Table/Unconference

Using OzART to Test Websites in Higher Education: A George Mason U. Case Study

Gian Wild

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

No session

An Evaluation of Accessibility for a Large Foundations of Engineering Course

Elizabetth Spingola

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

8:00am MST

  • No session

9:15am MST

10:30am MST

11:45am MST