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Schedule 2018

Monday 2018

Monday, November 12

Room10:30am MST1:00pm MST2:30pm MST
Westminster I

Knowbility’s Accessibility Master Class

Eric Eggert

Lunch (on your own)

Knowbility’s Accessibility Master Class (continued)

Eric Eggert

Westminster II
2-day session - continues on Tuesday

Growing an IT Accessibility Program on your Campus

Dawn Hunziker

Lunch (on your own)

Growing an IT Accessibility Program on your Campus (continued)

Dawn Hunziker

Westminster III
2-day session - continues on Tuesday

PDF Train-the-Trainer and Introduction to PDF Accessibility (BYOD Workshop)

Rob Haverty

Lunch (on your own)

PDF Train-the-Trainer and Introduction to PDF Accessibility (BYOD Workshop) (continued)

Rob Haverty

Westminster IV
No session
Lunch (on your own)
No session
Standley I Lab (Virtual)Virtual pre-conference

Accessible Adobe InDesign Layouts to Produce Accessible PDFs and EPUBs

Bevi Chagnon

Lunch (on your own)
Virtual pre-conference

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

Bevi Chagnon

Standley II Lab

Hands-on Video Accessibility Workshop (with Able Player)

Terrill Thompson

Lunch (on your own)

Hands-on Video Accessibility Workshop (with Able Player) (continued)

Terrill Thompson

Cotton Creek I

Learning, Practicing, and Honing Our Leadership to Shape Our Work and Our Field

Scott Marshall

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Learning, Practicing, and Honing Our Leadership to Shape Our Work and Our Field (continued)

Scott Marshall

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Cotton Creek II
2-day session - continues on Tuesday

360 Degrees – Approaching Accessibility in Chemistry & Math From All Sides (BYOD Session)

Wink Harner

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

360 Degrees – Approaching Accessibility in Chemistry & Math From All Sides (BYOD Session) (continued)

Wink Harner

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

10:30am MST

1:00pm MST

  • No session

2:30pm MST

Tuesday 2018

Tuesday, November 13

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

Everything you need to know about accessibility testing (BYOD Workshop)

Gian Wild

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Everything you need to know about accessibility testing (BYOD Workshop) (continued)

Gian Wild

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote
Westminster II

Growing an IT Accessibility Program on your Campus (continued)

Dawn Hunziker

Lunch (on your own)

Growing an IT Accessibility Program on your Campus (continued)

Dawn Hunziker

Keynote
Westminster III

PDF Train-the-Trainer and Introduction to PDF Accessibility (BYOD Workshop) (continued)

Rob Haverty

Lunch (on your own)

PDF Train-the-Trainer and Introduction to PDF Accessibility (BYOD Workshop) (continued)

Rob Haverty

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

Mobile Accessibility Challenges, Best Practices and Techniques (BYOD Workshop)

Joe Humbert

Keynote
Standley I LabVirtual pre-conference

Understanding and Evaluating WCAG 2 Color and Contrast

Jonathan Whiting

Lunch (on your own)

Accessible PDF Forms from Adobe InDesign

Bevi Chagnon

Keynote
Standley II Lab

Introduction to Online Course Accessibility

Joseph Feria-Galicia

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Introduction to Online Course Accessibility (continued)

Joseph Feria-Galicia

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote
Meadowbrook I

Demystifying Assistive Listening Devices

Dave Litman

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)
Virtual pre-conference

Captioned Media: Developing a Systematic Approach that Meets the Needs of Your Institution

Stephanie Zito

Keynote
Meadowbrook II

Campus Accessibility Compliance Strategies utilizing a Maturity Model (BYOD Workshop)

Susan Cullen

Lunch (on your own)

Understanding EPUB: How to Examine the Structure and Accessibility of EPUBs (BYOD Workshop)

Rachel Comerford

Keynote
Cotton Creek II

360 Degrees – Approaching Accessibility in Chemistry & Math From All Sides (BYOD Session) (continued)

Wink Harner

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

360 Degrees – Approaching Accessibility in Chemistry & Math From All Sides (BYOD Session) (continued)

Wink Harner

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote
Cotton Creek IUDUC

Teaching about Accessibility in Computing and IT Courses: A Capacity-building Institute

Sheryl Burgstahler

Lunch (on your own)
UDUC

Teaching about Accessibility in Computing and IT Courses: A Capacity-building Institute (continued)

Sheryl Burgstahler

Keynote

9:00am MST

12:00pm MST

  • No session

1:30pm MST

7:00pm MST

  • No session

Wednesday 2018

Wednesday, November 14

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

AIMHub: Cost Effective, Rapid Accessible Instructional Materials Exchange

Jack Sullivan

A Strategy for Inclusive Accessibility Testing for Novices and Experts

Justin Stockton

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Navigating the Venn Diagram of Video Accessibility Laws

Jena Wallace

Lunch Break - on your own

Which Piece of the Puzzle are You Missing? Unwebbing the Possibilities

Kara Zirkle

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

The ABC’s of a11y – Creating a Common Vocabulary

William Burgess

Meadowbrook I/IIVirtual A

Not So Fast: Implementing Accessibility Reviews in a University’s IT Software Review Process

Crystal Tenan

Virtual A

Math Accessibility in Word, Canvas, Conversion and More!

Paul Brown

Exhibit Hall Break
Virtual A

“We don’t have enough staff assigned to making IT accessible!”

Sheryl Burgstahler

Lunch Break - on your own

Creating inclusive learning environments with Microsoft Accessibility

Anita Mortaloni

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Why a less than perfect VPAT is okay

Elizabeth Simister

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Cotton Creek IVirtual B

Navigating the Course: Creating Accessible STEM

Megan Gibbs

Virtual B

Understanding WCAG 2.1

Becky Gibson

Exhibit Hall Break
Virtual B

State of ARIA 2018

Joe Humbert

Lunch Break - on your own
Virtual B

Including people with disabilities in your project design, development, testing process.

Robert Jolly

Virtual B

Experiences of Students with Visual Disabilities with Tactile Graphics

Guy Toles

Cotton Creek II

A New Automated Notetaking, Captioning and Transcription Solution

Chris Frazier

Thinking outside the dots: Lessons Learned in Tactile Graphics

John Jones

Exhibit Hall Break

The Power of Partnerships: institutional alliances to transform accessibility for a small liberal arts college

Corrine Schoeb

Lunch Break - on your own

Build Your Own Content Remediation Model

Krista Greear Wright

Build Your Own Content Remediation Model (continued)

Krista Greear Wright

Standley I Lab

Introduction to Accessible PDF Documents

Rob Haverty

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Introduction to Accessible PDF Documents (continued)

Rob Haverty

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

How to CADET: free caption and audio description authoring software from WGBH’s NCAM (lecture session)

Bryan Gould

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch Break - on your own
Virtual A

Evaluating and Repairing Word and PowerPoint Files

Jonathan Whiting

Virtual A

Evaluating and Repairing Word and PowerPoint Files (continued)

Jonathan Whiting

Standley II Lab

Audio Description: An In-Depth Review and Analysis (lecture session)

Joel Snyder, PhD

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Accessible Educational Materials All the Way Through Postsecondary

Sam Johnston

Exhibit Hall Break

Strategies for Creating Accessible Instructional Videos in Online Courses (the first time) (lecture session)

Kyle Shachmut

Lunch Break - on your own

Tips and Tricks for Accessible PDFs

Rob Haverty

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Tips and Tricks for Accessible PDFs (continued)

Rob Haverty

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Windsor

Finding the ways to make wayfinding work

Kaela Parks

How Do You Know It’s Working? Assessing Access Focused Professional Learning on Campus

Jordan Cameron

Exhibit Hall Break

Campuses Take Proactive Measures on Accessibility Certification, Testing, and Procurement.

Christopher Lee

Lunch Break - on your own

The Path to Digital Document Accessibility

Nina Overdorff

Expanding Access through University-wide AT software licensing

Carlos Herrera

Westminster I

Accessibility – How to deal with documents!

Sachin Gupta

UDUC

UDL Jedi Training: Move Learners and Leaders with Only Your Mind

Thomas Tobin

Exhibit Hall Break
UDUC

Accessibility Education: A New Certificate and Undergraduate Minor in Accessibility Studies

Naomi Petersen

Lunch Break - on your own

What the heck is all this EPUB Hubbub about ?

George Kerscher

UDUC

There and Back Again On Our Accessibility & UDL Journey

Adrian Ricketts

Westminster IIVideotaped A

Making Websites Usable, Not Just Accessible (lecture session)

Karen Hawkins

Videotaped A

Making Websites Usable, Not Just Accessible (lecture session) (continued)

Karen Hawkins

Exhibit Hall Break
Videotaped A

Identifying Challenges to EPUB Adoption

Christian Vinten-Johansen

Lunch Break - on your own
Videotaped A

Building a campus-wide Universal Design framework from the ground up

Sheryl Burgstahler

Videotaped A

Website Liability Under US Accessibility Laws

Ken Nakata

Westminster IIIVideotaped B

DIY IT Accessibility: Building the Foundation for Accessible Course Content at the University of Maryland

Sue Johnston

Videotaped B

IT Procurement: Accessibility as a Functional Criterion

Hadi Rangin

Exhibit Hall Break
Videotaped B

All Numbers and Notes: Creating Accessible Math and Music Materials for Students Who Are Blind

Michele Bromley

Lunch Break - on your own
Videotaped B

The California State University Accessible Procurement Process from Multiple Perspectives

Dawn Okinaka

Videotaped B

The California State University Accessible Procurement Process from Multiple Perspectives (continued)

Dawn Okinaka

Westminster IV

It is all about the student; selecting the right reading app for student success.

Richard Orme

Mathematics in Born Accessible Publications

George Kerscher

Exhibit Hall Break

Designing Accessibility: Building it in Versus Bolting it on

Taylor Snook

Lunch Break - on your own

Universal Design in Digital Publishing

Deb Castiglione

From the professor’s word processor to the student’s smartphone- practical accessible EPUB using familiar tools

Richard Orme UC Berkeley

Lakehouse

Educating College Level Students on Asssistive Technology

James Fleming

Open and Accessible: low cost and inclusive by design

Kaela Parks

Exhibit Hall Break

How to design and create accessible documents and contribute to barrier-free education

Lars Ballieu Christensen

Lunch Break - on your own

Zoom: Striving for Functional Accessibility

Hadi Rangin

Fantastic Forms and How To Fix Them

Elizabeth Linnetz

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 2018

Thursday, November 15

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

EIT Accessibility at Youngstown State University

Thomas Madsen

Tips for Working with Accessibility Consultants

Taylor Snook

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Leveraging Library Consortia to Improve Vendor E-Resource Accessibility in the Big Ten Academic Alliance

Heidi Schroeder

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

AbleData: Finding Assistive Technologies to Support Student Accommodation Needs

Cammie Truesdell

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Meadowbrook I/IIVirtual A

Powerful Presentation Skills for the Accessibility Professional

Christa Miller

Virtual A

IT Colleagues: from Accessibility Newbies into Accessibility Auditors

Kristen Dabney

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own
Virtual A

Social media and accessibility

Gian Wild

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break
Virtual A

I Was Wrong! Build Your Successful Accessibility Program by Learning from My Mistakes

Angela Hooker

Cotton Creek I

Assistive Technology for Campus wide Access for Those with Visual Challenges

Michael Wood

What is VPAT® 2.0?

Joe Humbert

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Building a sustainable document remediation plan: Hits and misses from GMU’s 1-year pilot

Korey Singleton

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Does poor note taking affect retention? Tennessee Tech explore notetaking software with ‘at risk’ students

Megan Barrett

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Cotton Creek II

Introduction to Web Accessibility: A Practical Demonstration of the Real-Life Implications for People with Disabilities

Jeffrey Singleton

Can you see us? We can hear you: Unpacking the realities of the blind experience at CU Boulder.

Kevin Darcy

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Lessons learned building an internal digital accessibility consultancy at Yale

Michael Harris

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Standards 101: The Many Shades of Grey

Naveesha Maharaj

Standley I LabVirtual B

What’s new in Acrobat

Rob Haverty

Virtual B

What’s new in Acrobat (continued)

Rob Haverty

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own
Virtual B

Making Math Accessible Doesn’t Have To Be Terrifying!

Susan Kelmer

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break
Virtual B

Making Math Accessible Doesn’t Have To Be Terrifying! (continued)

Susan Kelmer

Standley II Lab

How to Meet WCAG Requirements with Free WAI Resources

Sharron Rush

How to Meet WCAG Requirements with Free WAI Resources (continued)

Sharron Rush

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Make Accessible EPUBs from Adobe InDesign Layouts (Lecture session)

Bevi Chagnon

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Make Accessible EPUBs from Adobe InDesign Layouts (Lecture session) (continued)

Bevi Chagnon

Windsor

Students’ Perspectives: Leveraging Student Workers to Expand Services and Increase Sense of Belonging

Leila Flores-Torres

The Importance of Semantics (For designers and developers)

Gerard Cohen

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Reduce, Reuse, Revise: Saving Your Sanity by Single Sourcing Content

Michael Mace

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Access360: Developing a Shared Framework to Support Institutional and System Level Change

Jess Thompson

Westminster IUDUC

Design Considerations in Delivering Accessibility Training in Online Higher Education

Tania Heap

UDUC

Stories of Inclusive Technology: Diversity, Accessibility and Universal Design — a video curriculum for faculty and staff

Craig Spooner

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own
UDUC

A Personalized Approach to Engaging with Course Content: Automating UDL Principles with Blackboard Ally’s Alternative Formats

John Scott

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Practical First Steps for Achieving Web Accessibility and Avoiding Liability

Ken Nakata

Westminster IIVideotaped A

What’s new in WCAG 2.1

Jonathan Whiting

Videotaped A

Thinking Beyond Described Video with Integrated Described Video (IDV)

Chris O'Brien

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own
Videotaped A

Intro to Audio Description (2018)

Jena Wallace

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break
Videotaped A

Keep it Simple. Accessible Design Thinking

Eric Eggert

Westminster IIIVideotaped B

Disability Services Offices Talk About EPUB – Is It Time To Adopt?

Jamie Axelrod

Videotaped B

Promoting Document Accessibility Efforts and PDF Remediation Options

Gaby De Jongh

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own
Videotaped B

Making Web Pages Accessible for Persons with Anxiety Disorder Using WCAG Guidelines and UDL

Valorie Sundby

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break
Videotaped B

The Forest and the Trees: Scaling for Enterprise-Level Digital Accessibility

Kathryn Weber-Hottleman

Westminster IV

ARIA 1.1: An in-depth view into the new and shiny

Suman Damera

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Faculty Collaboration – Building Workable Relationships

Edward Beason

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Automation in PDF Accessibility: What Can and Can’t Be Done

Paul Rayius

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Journals, Monographs, and Trade Books Can Be Accessible Too

Bill Kasdorf

Lakehouse

Transparency in Textbooks – Knowing ahead of time what you will get

Rick Johnson

Automated Live Captioning with Higher Ed in Mind

Will Lewis

Round Table
Exhibitor Break
Lunch on your own

Detangling Complex Components

Justin Stockton

Exhibit Hall Refreshment Break

Redesigning the Word Online Ribbon with Community Feedback

Hadi Rangin

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 2018

Friday, November 16

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

Risk Analysis and Portfolio Prioritization for Higher Ed

Kim Phillips Level Access

Getting to Governance: Prepare your digital content for an ongoing accessibility governance program

Jacqueline Tolisano

Notetaking Accommodations and Technology – Beyond the Technical Tools

Paul Harwell

Meadowbrook I
Round Table/Unconference
Virtual A

The power of PDF/UA

Naveesha Maharaj

Virtual A

The Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Shared Approach to Procurement and Vendor Relations

Bill Welsh

Virtual A

Not Another Lecture-Style Presentation

Brad Held

Meadowbrook II
Round Table/Unconference

If You Build It, They Will Come – Success with a Custom Captioning Solution

Jordan Cameron

Accessibility during a web build

Gian Wild

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Best Practices for Automating Document Accessibility

Dennis Quon

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Standley I Lab
Round Table/Unconference

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

Rachel Kruzel

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Working collaboratively: building partnerships between internal teams and external vendors to launch and maintain accessible experiences (lecture session)

Elizabeth Linnetz

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

No session
Cotton Creek I
Round Table/Unconference
Virtual B

Accessibility: Past, Present, and Future

Gerard Cohen

Virtual B

Interactive 3d printed tactile campus maps

Holly Lawson

Virtual B

Pretty Accessible: Bringing Beauty, Simplicity, and Usability to Accessible Products

Rachel Comerford

Standley II Lab
Round Table/Unconference

The Library Accessibility Committee: From a grassroots interest group to a proactive force for accessibility (lecture session)

Binky Lush

No session
No session
Cotton Creek II
Round Table/Unconference
UDUC

Teaching Accessibility: A National Survey and the Way Forward

Richard Ladner

UDUC

Teaching Accessibility & Multi-Screen Design – A Content Strategy Master’s Course

Eric Eggert

UDUC

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

Windsor
Round Table/Unconference

Purchasing Born Accessible Software and Content Can Change the World

George Kerscher

Accessibility at Scale: Meeting the Diverse Needs of MOOC Learners

Art Morgan

Our Other Tools: Courage, Freedom, Hospitality, Aspiration, and More

Scott Marshall

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

WB I
Round Table/Unconference

Building Interdepartmental Relationships that Promote Change

Christa Miller

More Accessible Than You Realize: What the Big 5 publishers Provide

Bill Kasdorf

New Accessibility Features in MathJax v3.0 (Lecture session)

Volker Sorge

WB II
Round Table/Unconference

Accessible Interactive Simulations for Science Learning

Emily Moore

More than Disability…. Captioning for the world

Eileen Hopkins

No session

8:00am MST

  • No session

9:15am MST

10:30am MST

11:45am MST