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Schedule 2023

Monday Pre-con 2023

Monday, November 6

Room10:30am MST1:00pm MST2:30pm MST
Denver 1-3
Lab

Creating Accessible forms using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

Karen McCall

Lunch (on your own)

Creating Accessible forms using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (continued)

Karen McCall

Denver 4-6
Lab

Alternate Format Hands-On Intensive – How To Create Alternate Format for Students with Print Disabilities

Susan Kelmer

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Alternate Format Hands-On Intensive – How To Create Alternate Format for Students with Print Disabilities (continued)

Susan Kelmer

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Matchless

Why is Web Accessibility Still a Problem? – A Group Therapy Session for Web Accessibility Program Managers

Jill Wolters

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

How to Create Accessible Experiences That Inspire

Marcelo Paiva

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Penrose 1

From Problem to Solution: Remediation Strategies for Accessible PDFs

Dax Castro

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

From Problem to Solution: Remediation Strategies for Accessible PDFs (continued)

Dax Castro

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Penrose 2

Innovating Toward Universal Design: Robust Accessible Media and Campus Accessibility Workflows

Kaela Parks

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Innovating Toward Universal Design: Robust Accessible Media and Campus Accessibility Workflows (continued)

Kaela Parks

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Mattie SilksVirtual pre-conference

Mobile accessibility for web sites and native apps

Gian Wild

Lunch (on your own)
Virtual pre-conference

Mobile accessibility for web sites and native apps (continued)

Gian Wild

10:30am MST

1:00pm MST

  • No session

2:30pm MST

Tuesday Pre-con 2023

Tuesday, November 7

Room9:00am MST12:00pm MST1:30pm MST7:00pm MST
Denver 1-3
Lab

[Canceled:] Accessible Adobe InDesign Layouts to Produce Accessible PDFs

Bevi Chagnon

Lunch (on your own)

[Canceled:] Accessible Adobe InDesign Layouts to Produce Accessible PDFs (continued)

Bevi Chagnon

Keynote
Denver 4-6
Lab

Alternate Format Hands-On Intensive – How To Create Alternate Format for Students with Print Disabilities (continued)

Susan Kelmer

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Alternate Format Hands-On Intensive – How To Create Alternate Format for Students with Print Disabilities (continued)

Susan Kelmer

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote
Matchless

Going Beyond: Leveraging Partnerships to Expand your Institution’s Accessible Media Efforts

Korey Singleton

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

Assistive Technology – Implementation and Decision Making: The “How?”

Rachel Kruzel

Keynote
Penrose 1

From Problem to Solution: Remediation Strategies for Accessible PDFs (continued)

Dax Castro

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch (on your own)

From Problem to Solution: Remediation Strategies for Accessible PDFs (continued)

Dax Castro

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote
Penrose 2

Accessibility Testing Workshop (2023)

Karl Groves

Lunch (on your own)

Accessibility Testing Workshop (2023) (continued)

Karl Groves

Keynote
Mattie SilksVirtual pre-conference

Managing the build of an accessible web site

Gian Wild

Lunch (on your own)
Virtual pre-conference

Managing the build of an accessible web site (continued)

Gian Wild

Keynote
Colorado G-H

Create accessible documents in Office 365: Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

George Joeckel

Lunch (on your own)

Create accessible documents in Office 365: Word, PowerPoint, and Excel (continued)

George Joeckel

Keynote
Colorado I-J

Implementing Effective Campus Accessibility Initiatives

Rachel Kruzel

Lunch (on your own)

Accessibility in Procurement Deep(-er) Dive

Rob Carr

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Keynote

9:00am MST

12:00pm MST

  • No session

1:30pm MST

7:00pm MST

  • No session

Wednesday 2023

Wednesday, November 8

Room8:00am MST9:15am MST10:15am MST11:30am MST12:30pm MST2:15pm MST3:30pm MST
Denver 1-3
Lab

Accessible Color Considerations for Charts, Graphs, and Infographics

Dax Castro

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Accessible Color Considerations for Charts, Graphs, and Infographics (continued)

Dax Castro

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibitor Hall Break

Accessible Course Design Strategies For Rise and Storyline

Auston Stamm

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch on your own

Creating Accessible PowerPoint Templates

Karen McCall

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Creating Accessible PowerPoint Templates (continued)

Karen McCall

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Denver 4-6
Lab		remote speaker

Accessible Word Templates

Bevi Chagnon

remote speaker

Accessible Word Templates (continued)

Bevi Chagnon

Exhibitor Hall Break

How to Create Accessible Campus Maps

Greg Kraus

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch on your own

Creating Accessible PDF Files from Microsoft Word

Chad Chelius

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Creating Accessible PDF Files from Microsoft Word (continued)

Chad Chelius

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Matchless

7 Ways to Make Content Digitally Accessible

Kamran Khan

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Creating a Grassroots Statewide Coalition for Disability: Lessons Learned from Virginia

Barbara Zunder

Exhibitor Hall Break

Coordinating Captioning Efforts on Campus – Three Perspectives

Annissa Stout

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch on your own

Expected and Surprising Challenges with PDF/UA Remediation at Enterprise Volumes

William Kilian

Launching Ally’s WYSIWYG Instructor Feedback tool at UC Berkeley

Joseph Feria-Galicia

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Penrose 1
streaming from onsite		Virtual A

Maximize the Impact: Strategies to Increase Knowledge & Use of Available Assistive Technology Tools Across Campus

Scott Bryden

Virtual A

What’d you say? Harnessing Speech Access for Accessible Digital Mathematics: Importance, Potential, and Challenges

Brian Richwine

Exhibitor Hall Break
Virtual A

STEM Accessibility: Beyond Simply Making Things Accessible

David Schwarte

Lunch on your own
Virtual A

Mission: Accessible – Challenging Instructors to Create Accessible Canvas Content

Jim Stachowiak

Virtual A

UDL, Digital Accessibility, & Pedagogy – Towards Harmonious Practice

Jennifer Curry Jahnke

Penrose 2
streaming from onsite		Virtual B

Accessibility Testing: Don’t Just Rely on What Automated Tests Tell You

Mike Williamson

Virtual B

Creating a Digital Accessibility Hub

Kate DeForest

Exhibitor Hall Break
Virtual B

Collaboration Benefits Student Success: Bringing text-to-speech software to the broader student body

Jennifer McDowell

Lunch on your own
Virtual B

Advancing Accessibility in Procurement with the HECVAT

Kyle Shachmut

Virtual B

Promoting and enhancing Audio Description practice within Higher Education

Ann Fredricksen

Mattie Silks
streaming from onsite		Virtual C

The VHEAP Captioning Initiative

Lori Kressin

Virtual C

Accessibility of 3D Content on the Web

Hilarie Sit

Exhibitor Hall Break
Virtual C

Accessibility and the 3 Bears of AI

Glenda Sims Deque Systems

Lunch on your own
Virtual C

A new level of digital equity now possible for AT users – and easier AT deployment for IT departments

Gregg Vanderheiden

Virtual C

Making Inclusive Digital Campus Maps

Brandon Biggs

Virtual D
Virtual-only
No session
Virtual D

It Takes a Village: A Collaborative Approach to Digital Accessibility on Your Campus

Melanie Eley

Exhibitor Hall Break
Virtual D

A University-wide strategy for Document Accessibility

Shilpi Kapoor

Lunch on your own
Virtual D

Updates to the Mobile Accessibility Testing Guidelines

Gian Wild

Virtual D

History of web accessibility

Gian Wild

Independence

How to Impact Student Outcomes by Building Self-Efficacy in Online Learning

Paula McMahon

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Anthology Ally User Group – all welcome!

Christopher Aldin

Exhibitor Hall Break
No session
Lunch on your own

Web Accessibility Framework: a Foundation for Success

Jay Pope Pope Tech

Bridging the Accessibility Gap: AI-Driven Innovations in Higher Education

John Maxwell Otter.ai

Colorado G-H

Promoting a Culture of Accessibility One Person at a Time

Stephanie Richardson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Making chemistry engaging and accessible with digital education

Jessica Martin

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibitor Hall Break

Enhancing Accessibility in Online Learning with Audio Description

Erik Ducker 3Play Media

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch on your own

Systems Change in Higher Ed Digital Accessibility

Cynthia Curry

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Advancing our Holistic Accessibility Plan at Penn State

Binky Lush

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Colorado I-J

Designing with Readability in Mind

Kate DeForest

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

The state of digital accessibility in higher ed 2023: takeaways, analysis & insight from a broad institutional survey

Kyle Shachmut

Exhibitor Hall Break

Open Education Resources – Notoriously inaccessible, but we can change that!

Sandi Gauder

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch on your own

The Power of Flexibility and Choice: Examining Alternative Format Usage Before, During and After COVID-19

Christopher Aldin

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Creating an online course accessibility database at a large institution

Tania Heap

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Colorado F

Empowering Indoor Mobility: Can a new Low-cost, Wearable Navigation Aid Empower Individuals with Vision Impairments?

Guru Nanma Purushotam

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

What we talk about when we talk about accessibility testing

Derek Jackson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibitor Hall Break

Data Viz for Everyone: Live Accessibility Demos

Mike Williamson

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch on your own

OCR’s Year In Review (2023)

Mary Lou Mobley

OCR’s Year In Review (2023) (continued)

Mary Lou Mobley

8:00am MST

9:15am MST

10:15am MST

  • No session

11:30am MST

12:30pm MST

  • No session

2:15pm MST

3:30pm MST

Thursday 2023

Thursday, November 9

Room8:00am MST9:15am MST10:15am MST11:30am MST12:30pm MST2:15pm MST3:15pm MST4:00pm MST
Denver 1-3
Lab

Creating a Word Form Template for Creating an Accessible PDF Form

Karen McCall

Creating a Word Form Template for Creating an Accessible PDF Form (continued)

Karen McCall

Exhibit Hall Break

Beyond the Blockers: Making Online Course Content Accessible for Everyone

Sonya Woods

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch on your own
No session
Exhibit Hall Break
Round Tables
Denver 4-6
Lab

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Nemeth and UEB Technical (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Neil Soiffer

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Nemeth and UEB Technical (But Were Afraid to Ask) (continued)

Neil Soiffer

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

The fundamentals of an accessible PDF file

Chad Chelius

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch on your own

Live Captioning 101

Erik Ducker 3Play Media

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break
Round Tables
Matchless

Assistive Listening Systems & UVA’s Decision to Prioritize Hearing Loop

Lori Kressin

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Certified Accessible eBook Ecosystem – From Vendor to Publisher to Student

Charles LaPierre

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Solving Accessibility Problems in Virtual Lab Environments

Rachel Comerford

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch on your own

PDF/UA-2: The latest on the new standard

Paul Rayius

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break
Round Tables
Penrose 1
streaming from onsite		Virtual A

Evaluating Document Accessibility: Training Student Employees

Kathryn Tipton

Virtual A

Exploring Applications of Chat GPT and Similar Large Language Model AI to Promote Access

Chris Parthemos

Exhibit Hall Break
Virtual A

Accessibility Workarounds for Powerpoint

Dax Castro

Lunch on your own
Virtual A

PDF Accessibility Checkers: Correcting the Myths

Karen McCall

Exhibit Hall Break
Round Tables
Penrose 2
streaming from onsite		Virtual B

Driving Accessibility Improvements in IT Products

Jeff Singleton

Virtual B

What Fit and Flopped: Reflections of Accessibility Initiatives

Steven Kolberg

Exhibit Hall Break
Virtual B

The Future is Now: Building a Comprehensive, Compliant, Affordable Captioning Service

Ann Fredricksen

Lunch on your own
Virtual B

Creating an Accessibility Resource for Your Campus

Danielle Smith

Exhibit Hall Break
Round Tables
Mattie Silks
streaming from onsite		Virtual C

Ensuring Inclusion in Course Design with VR: Lessons and Recommendations for Accessibility

Rachel Elliott

Virtual C

Microlearning for Accessibility: Supporting Cognitive Disabilities Across Campus

Erin Evans

Exhibit Hall Break
Virtual C

OCR’s National Digital Access Team

Mary Lou Mobley

Lunch on your own
Virtual C

Replacing an Accessible Website: Ensuring a Better New Site

Alen Davoudian

Exhibit Hall Break
Round Tables
Virtual D
Virtual-only		Virtual D

Breaking Barriers: Creating Accessible Online Assessments

Kristin Juhrs Kaylor

Virtual D

Web Accessibility for Speech Recognition users – A pragmatic approach

Shashank Kapur

Exhibit Hall Break
Virtual D

[canceled:] An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Copilot to Assist in Building Accessible Digital Products is on the Way…

Jia Ma

Lunch on your own
Virtual D

Digital Accessibility & Equity: Building Self-Paced Professional Development Opportunities for Faculty

Luz Espanola

Exhibit Hall Break
Round Tables
Independence

Accessibility in the Library with the Lead Pipe: Clues for Increasing Accessibility

Anaya Jones

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Optimizing user experience – How input from students and faculty shaped the SensusAccess interface in Canvas

Lars Ballieu Christensen

Exhibit Hall Break

Tactical use of Product Vendor Accessibility Process: From High-Impact to Demo

Leon McNaught

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch on your own

A review of the proposed Ontario Postsecondary Education Standard (AODA): Digital Learning and Technology Recommendations

Jennifer Curry Jahnke

Exhibit Hall Break
Round Tables
Colorado G-H

Building the Digital Accessibility Gateway: A Data Driven Model for Accessibility

Noelle Bareswilt

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Expanding accessible tech across campus – why collaboration is the watchword for 2024

Scott Lomax Glean

Exhibit Hall Break
Lunch on your own

AHG 2024 Speakers Unite!

Christa Miller

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break
Round Tables
Colorado I-J

AI Assisted ePubs & Website Remediation: Enhancing Accessibility with Large Language Models

Christine Foushi

Creating, Remediating & Accessing Digitally Accessible STEM Based Course Content with Equatio

Louis Shanafelt

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Exhibit Hall Break

Toward a Fully Inclusive Campus: Three Modalities for Comprehensive Accessibility Training at a Health Sciences Center

Brandie Wiley

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch on your own

Web Accessibility in Higher Education: Update of the Pope Tech 4k Project

Jay Pope

Exhibit Hall Break
Round Tables
Colorado F

Join the Resistance: Gaining Stakeholder Buy-In at Your Organization

Lindsay Nichols Foster

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Color-to-Texture, Coloring Books and Cartoons, the Tactile Color Revolution has Begun

John Gardner

Exhibit Hall Break

Evaluating Accessibility When Time is Scarce

Rob Carr

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Lunch on your own

The Dyslexic Shuffle: Deepening Your Understanding of Dyslexia

Nina G

Exhibit Hall Break
Round Tables

8:00am MST

9:15am MST

10:15am MST

  • No session

11:30am MST

12:30pm MST

  • No session

2:15pm MST

3:15pm MST

  • No session

4:00pm MST

  • No session

Friday 2023

Friday, November 10

Room8:00am MST9:15am MST10:30am MST11:45am MST
Denver 1-3
Lab
Virtual Round-Tables

Leveraging LaTeX: Using LaTeX to Craft Accessible Math in Digital Documents

Brian Richwine

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Leveraging LaTeX: Using LaTeX to Craft Accessible Math in Digital Documents (continued)

Brian Richwine

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

No session
Denver 4-6
Lab
Virtual Round-Tables

Creating Accessible STEM Content – A Multimodal Approach for All Students

Jennifer Maxwell

Creating Accessible STEM Content – A Multimodal Approach for All Students (continued)

Jennifer Maxwell

No session
Matchless
Virtual Round-Tables

4 Years Later: Reflecting on a Proactive, Collaborative Model for Students with Visual Impairments

Ione Priest

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Incorporating Accessibility into the Library Electronic Resource Acquisition Cycle

Elyssa Gould

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

No session
Penrose 1
streaming from onsite
Virtual Round-Tables
Virtual A

Going beyond checklists for digital content to build a great course learning experience

Sandi Gauder

Virtual A

Microsoft vs Google: A Comparison of Accessibility Features in Documents and Slides

Terrill Thompson

Virtual A

Integrating Accessibility into the Procurement Cycle

Andrew Drummond

Penrose 2
streaming from onsite
Virtual Round-Tables
Virtual B

Chat GPT, Can You Help Me? Chat GPT as Assistive Technology for Students with Disabilities

Krystal Iseminger

Virtual B

AI for Extended Audio Descriptions and Closed Captions: Why It Matters?

Vijayshree Vethantham

Virtual B

Providing classroom accommodations in a digital age

Michael Mace

Mattie Silks
streaming from onsite
Virtual Round-Tables
Virtual C

Predictors of Web Accessibility in Higher Education: Ten Years After

Dan Comden

No session
Virtual C

Eliminate Student’s Dependence on Alternative Materials with EPUB 3

Darrin Evans

Virtual D
Virtual-only
Virtual Round-Tables
Virtual D

Website Liability Legal Update

Ken Nakata

Virtual D

Colorado 21-1110: How to meet it and is your state next?

Ken Nakata

Virtual D

Opportunities and barriers in implementing UDL for accessibility – data from both students and faculty’s perspectives

Hongye Liu

Independence
Virtual Round-Tables

Get to know the PDF/UA Processor Liaison Working Group

Paul Rayius

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Hiding the Vegetables: How A Holistic Approach to Training Improves Digital Accessibility

Mary Albert

Using Mind Maps to Teach Class Objectives

Shari Lanning

Colorado G-H
Virtual Round-Tables
No session

Keeping it Old School? Move it in a New Direction! Strategies for an Inclusive, Synchronous Lecture Delivery

Celine Greene

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Accessibility of Digital Information and Technology for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Barry Isaacs

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Colorado I-J
Virtual Round-Tables

Blindsight – An Exploration of Blind Sport and Recreation

Jennifer Johnson

No session

Making the Analytics Lifecycle Accessible: Accessible Data Visualizations through Sonification

Greg Kraus

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

Colorado F
Virtual Round-Tables

Creating a Sustainable, Decentralized Model for Accessibility

Noelle Bareswilt

Slides & Handouts

Slides and Handouts

No session
No session

8:00am MST

  • No session

9:15am MST

10:30am MST

11:45am MST