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Monday Pre-con 2020

Monday, November 9

Room10:30am MST12:00pm MST1:30pm MST
Virtual A

Lab: Getting to grips with creating and editing EPUB

Richard Orme

Lunch Break

Lab: Getting to grips with creating and editing EPUB (continued)

Richard Orme

Virtual B

Lab: Introduction to Mobile Assistive Technology and Accessibility Testing

Joe Humbert

Lunch Break

Lab: Introduction to Mobile Assistive Technology and Accessibility Testing (continued)

Joe Humbert

Virtual C

Lab: Knowbility’s Accessibility Master Class

Becky Gibson

Lunch Break

Lab: Knowbility’s Accessibility Master Class (continued)

Becky Gibson

Virtual D

Lab: Adobe InDesign Layouts to Produce Accessible PDFs

Bevi Chagnon

Lunch Break

Lab: Adobe InDesign Layouts to Produce Accessible PDFs (continued)

Bevi Chagnon

10:30am MST

12:00pm MST

  • No session

1:30pm MST

Tuesday Pre-con 2020

Tuesday, November 10

Room10:30am MST12:00pm MST1:30pm MST6:00pm MST
Virtual A

Lab: Alternate Format Intensive: Alternate Format Production From Student Request to Delivery of Materials

Susan Kelmer

Lunch Break

Lab: Alternate Format Intensive: Alternate Format Production From Student Request to Delivery of Materials (continued)

Susan Kelmer

Accessibility Testing Workshop

Gian Wild

Virtual B

Lab: Developing for Accessibility with Semantic HTML

Emily Lewis

Lunch Break

Lab: Developing for Accessibility with Semantic HTML (continued)

Emily Lewis

No session
Virtual C

Lab: Understanding ARIA Authoring Practices and Screen Readers

Jon Gunderson

Lunch Break

Lab: Understanding ARIA Authoring Practices and Screen Readers (continued)

Jon Gunderson

No session
Virtual D

Lab: Create Accessible Documents in Word & PowerPoint

George Joeckel

Lunch Break

Lab: Create Accessible Documents in Word & PowerPoint (continued)

George Joeckel

No session

10:30am MST

12:00pm MST

  • No session

1:30pm MST

6:00pm MST

Thursday main 2020

Thursday, November 12

Room10:00am MST11:15am MST12:00pm MST1:30pm MST3:00pm MST4:00pm MST5:00pm MST
Virtual A

Technology for Notetaking Accommodations

Will Pines

Making Math Accessible, One Step at a Time

Lisa Wadors Verne

Round Tables

Quick Talks

Testing and Remediating PDFs

Multiple Speakers

What’s new in W3C ARIA 1.2 and the ARIA Authoring Practices

Jon Gunderson

Audio Description As An Aesthetic Innovation

Joel Snyder, PhD

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Networking / Happy Hour
Virtual B

UDL Everywhere Always

Christa Miller

Equity in the Classroom: Ensuring Open Educational Resources (OER) Are Accessible to Everyone

Erin Lucas

Round Tables

Quick Talks

AI and Machine Language for Complex Interfaces and Automated PDF Accessibility

Multiple Speakers

Put it on my TAB – Web Accessibility Testing and the Power of the TAB Key

Glen Walker

Inclusive Presentations – Reaching your Entire Audience

Becky Gibson

Networking / Happy Hour
Virtual C

Intro to Audio Description

Jaclyn Leduc 3Play Media

Using Personas for Accessible Design

Kathryn Weber-Hottleman

Round Tables

Quick Talks

Three 15-minute talks on captioning on campus, research and case studies

Multiple Speakers

Improving student adoption of note taking technology

Paddy Heaton Glean (Formerly Sonocent)

Microsoft Software Tooling and Process to Ensure Development of Accessible Software and Websites

Jia Ma

Networking / Happy Hour
Virtual D

Authoring Accessible Content (double session)

Emily Lewis

Authoring Accessible Content (double session) (continued)

Emily Lewis

Round Tables
No session

Lab: Techniques and strategies to check, remediate, and validate PDFs for compliance with the PDF/UA-1 accessibility standard (double session)

Bevi Chagnon

Lab: Techniques and strategies to check, remediate, and validate PDFs for compliance with the PDF/UA-1 accessibility standard (double session) (continued)

Bevi Chagnon

Networking / Happy Hour

10:00am MST

11:15am MST

12:00pm MST

  • No session

1:30pm MST

3:00pm MST

4:00pm MST

5:00pm MST

  • No session

Friday 2020 - week 1

Friday, November 13

Room10:00am MST11:15am MST12:30pm MST
Virtual A

Creating and Supporting Digital and Accessible Math Instruction in an Online Learning Environment

Rachel Kruzel

WAI Curricula on Web Accessibility

Daniel Montalvo

Flip or Flop – Flipped Classroom Teaching on Accessibility

Gottfried Zimmermann

Virtual B

History and Advances in Accessible Indoor Wayfinding Technology

Mike May

EPUB

Math and STEM in EPUB, What to Expect and Demand

George Kerscher

DAISY EPUB

Reading Systems Faceoff – How to access EPUB reading systems and how you can know which are the best

Joseph Polizzotto

Virtual C

OCR’s Year In Review (double session)

Mary Lou Mobley

OCR’s Year In Review (double session) (continued)

Mary Lou Mobley

Trending Tech Tools – 2020 edition: What’s New, What’s Improved & What’s on the Horizon for AT & Accessibility Tools

Rachel Kruzel

Virtual D

Supporting Faculty with UDL Best Practices

Patty Eaton

Strategies for using the Accessibility Checker in Word (double session)

Karen McCall

Strategies for using the Accessibility Checker in Word (double session) (continued)

Karen McCall

10:00am MST

11:15am MST

12:30pm MST

Monday 2020 - wk2

Monday, November 16

Room10:00am MST10:45am MST11:30am MST12:15pm MST1:00pm MST1:45pm MST2:30pm MST3:15pm MST
Exhibitor Room 1

It’s time to improve note taking accommodations: Introducing Glean, the simpler and smarter solution

Megan Barrett Sonocent

Automating Accessibility: AI for PDF Remediation and Alt Text Generation

Rajiv Narayana Continual Engine

Quick Start to Accessible Video

Jaclyn Leduc 3Play Media

Impacting Equity, Access, and Inclusion With Ally

Christopher Aldin Blackboard

PDF Accessibility Solutions

Andy Baum CommonLook

Promoting a campus-wide Universal Design framework

Sheryl Burgstahler University of Washington

How 2020 Changed The Future of Accessibility For Good

Scott Ready Verbit

No session
Exhibitor Room 2

ClockWork- Supporting Student Success

George Melendy ClockWork Enterprisec

Make Your Digital Web Accessibility Simple

Ken Nakata Converge Accessibility

DocMD: Get a Document Accessibility Check-up

Dave Hook OPEN ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Fidelity’s Accessibility Journey and Lessons Learned

Jeff Wissel Fidelity Investments

Pope Tech: WAVE for your whole .edu

Mark Pope Pope Tech

Note Taking Express for Online Classes

Liam Kelly Note Taking Express

Connect Virtual Labs: Designed for all Learners

Laura Ciporen McGraw Hill

No session

10:00am MST

10:45am MST

11:30am MST

12:15pm MST

1:00pm MST

1:45pm MST

2:30pm MST

3:15pm MST

  • No session

Tuesday 2020 - week 2

Tuesday, November 17

Room10:00am MST11:15am MST12:00pm MST1:30pm MST3:00pm MST4:00pm MST5:00pm MST
Virtual A

Lab: Accessible HTML – Why It’s a Good Format for your Students and How to Create It! (double session)

Joseph Polizzotto

Lab: Accessible HTML – Why It’s a Good Format for your Students and How to Create It! (double session) (continued)

Joseph Polizzotto

Keynote Talk

Quick Talks

EPUB: Campus transition to EPUB; differences between EPUB & PDF; buying Born Accessible, etc.

Multiple Speakers

Lab: Word to PowerPoint to Word: Create More Accessible PowerPoint Presentations (double session)

Karen McCall

Lab: Word to PowerPoint to Word: Create More Accessible PowerPoint Presentations (double session) (continued)

Karen McCall

Game Night
Virtual B

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

Mary Lou Mobley

How to Express the Accessibility Opportunity to your Executives (full-talk)

Keynote Talk

Quick Talks

Web Accessibility in Higher Education: An Analysis; 1st Steps Toward Accessibility and Reducing Legal Risk

Multiple Speakers

Life Changing Assistive Technology: Opening Doors to Success! (Formally: Single Switch Scanning: Strategies, Outcomes and Keys to Success)

DARREN GABBERT University of Missouri

WAI

CSS and HTML implementations of WCAG

Scott Chandler

Game Night
Virtual C

Current and Next Generation Digital Study Tools

Rick Johnson VitalSource Technologies

EPUB

Writing and reading accessible math in Word, HTML and EPUB

Richard Orme

Keynote Talk

Quick Talks

Building an Accessible Culture in Higher Ed & in Business

Multiple Speakers

Common Accessibility Errors

Becky Gibson

How to read a VPAT and ACR

Gian Wild

Game Night
Virtual D

IT Accessibility Challenge 2020: Launching a major accessibility campaign during a global pandemic

Terrill Thompson

Burnout Proof Your Higher Education

Michael Levitt

Keynote Talk
No session

Accessibility for Higher Education: Recent Legal and Compliance Trends And How To Respond (double session)

Kathleen Wahlbin

Accessibility for Higher Education: Recent Legal and Compliance Trends And How To Respond (double session) (continued)

Kathleen Wahlbin

Game Night

10:00am MST

11:15am MST

12:00pm MST

  • No session

1:30pm MST

3:00pm MST

4:00pm MST

5:00pm MST

  • No session

Wednesday 2020 - week 2

Wednesday, November 18

Room10:00am MST11:15am MST12:00pm MST1:30pm MST3:00pm MST4:00pm MST5:00pm MST
Virtual A

Lab: From Passive to Active: Teaching NVDA to Create Digital Access (double session)

Jordan Colbert

Lab: From Passive to Active: Teaching NVDA to Create Digital Access (double session) (continued)

Jordan Colbert

ATHEN Meeting

Quick Talks

Online learning: accessibility and inclusive pedagogy

Multiple Speakers

Lab: Document Accessibility Boot Camp: Leveraging Microsoft’s Built-in Tools to Create Accessible DOC, PDF, and EPUB Files (double session)

Valerie Morrison

Lab: Document Accessibility Boot Camp: Leveraging Microsoft’s Built-in Tools to Create Accessible DOC, PDF, and EPUB Files (double session) (continued)

Valerie Morrison

No activity
Virtual B

Lansing Community College Accessibility Initiative – Best Practices in Getting it Right the First Time

Andrew George

Revising Alt Text (and video description) Best Practices for a Better Learning Experience

Laura Ciporen

ATHEN Meeting

Quick Talks

Ethical Web Principles and UD and Accessibility in the Criminal Justice Curriculum

Multiple Speakers

Become an AccessText Network (ATN) Power User & Pearson will Join Us to Answer Your Questions

Dawn Evans

AT Support for ARIA: The Sequel

Joe Humbert

No activity
Virtual C

Creating accessible OER and other materials by leveraging advanced features of Word and WordToEPUB

Richard Orme

“Grasping” Math Concepts – Creating Options for Students

Catherine M. Stager

ATHEN Meeting

Quick Talks

Leveraging OER across the curriculum and for digital accessibility

Multiple Speakers

Policy Possibilities: Developing UNC’s Digital Accessibility Policy

Sarah Arnold

Pivot to online accessibility and accommodation

Dan Saylor

No activity
Virtual D

Lab: Optimizing Excel Workbooks for Accessibility (double session)

George Joeckel

Lab: Optimizing Excel Workbooks for Accessibility (double session) (continued)

George Joeckel

ATHEN Meeting
No session

Inclusive Education: a Collaborative Approach

Michael Canale

Accessibility in the Voice First Era

Mark Greenfield

No activity

10:00am MST

11:15am MST

12:00pm MST

  • No session

1:30pm MST

3:00pm MST

4:00pm MST

5:00pm MST

  • No session

Thursday 2020 - week 2

Thursday, November 19

Room10:00am MST11:15am MST12:00pm MST1:30pm MST3:00pm MST4:00pm MST
Virtual A

Lab: Introduction to Native Mobile Accessibility Testing (double session)

Joe Humbert

Lab: Introduction to Native Mobile Accessibility Testing (double session) (continued)

Joe Humbert

Round Tables

Quick Talks

Cross-campus and Institutional Collaboration and Policy Development

Multiple Speakers

MythBusters: Debunking the Myths Surrounding Industry Practices in Marketing

Jasmine Banks

Access versus Accessibility: “What are the Choices?”

Karen McCall

Virtual B

Universal Design of Lecture Capture using Illinois ClassTranscribe

Jon Gunderson

Mindful Online Course Design: A Universal Design Approach to Support Students with Cognitive and Emotional Challenges

CAREY HAMBURG

Round Tables

Quick Talks

Online libraries, catalogs, repositories of accessible materials

Multiple Speakers

Fruit of the Accessibility Tree: The Journey from Browser to User, PDF of slides for the presentation

Derek Jackson

Accessible Echo: Creating Multiple Means of Access to Graphic Novels in College Courses

Rachel Martiniak

Virtual C

Affordable Software and Portable Devices for Individuals that are Blind or Low Vision

Michael Wood

Website Liability Legal Update

Ken Nakata

Round Tables

Quick Talks

Foundations of Online Teaching; Staying Accessible in an Online World and Classroom

Multiple Speakers

Social media and accessibility – 2020 update (CANCELLED)

Gian Wild

Transforming the Alternative Format Process

Kristen Dabney

Virtual D

How to empower students to be self- sufficient when converting educational material for online education

Tanja Stevns Sensus ApS

Getting more Braille onto University Campuses

Jim Sullivan

Round Tables
No session

Project Management for Digital Accessibility

Emily Lewis

Universal Design for Assessment — Tying it Altogether

Kevin Stiffler

10:00am MST

11:15am MST

12:00pm MST

  • No session

1:30pm MST

3:00pm MST

4:00pm MST