For the fifth year, I’m partnering with my friend Scott Williams, Web Accessibility Coordinator at the University of Michigan, to host a group meeting room for the online live Accessibility Summit conference.
Organized by Environments for Humans, this year’s Accessibility Summit 2014 conference is a two-day online event bringing accessibility experts and developers to your desktop.
Our group meeting room in Ann Arbor will host day 1 of the event on September 9, 2014 from 10:00am to 5:00pm.
Thanks to the generous sponsorship from the University of Michigan Libraries, our group meeting viewing in Ann Arbor is free for anyone to attend, but pre-registration is required.
Attending the event is a great way to improve your knowledge about web accessibility, discover tools and online tutorials, learn about the challenges of accessibility in web applications, and more.
The event is co-hosted by Refresh Detroit and the University of Michigan Office for Institutional Equity.
The schedule for the conference is:
- 10:00am: Accessibility for UX? by Elle Waters, Web Accessibility Evangelist at Simply Accessible
- 11:00am: HTML5 Accessibility by Becky Gibson, Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM’s Emerging Internet Technologies Group
- Noon: PDF Accessibility by Denis Boudreau, Senior Web Accessibility Consultant at Deque
- 1:00pm to 2:00pm: Lunch (on your own)
- 2:00pm Using Free & Low Cost Accessibility Tools by Sharron Rush, Executive Director of Knowbility
- 3:00pm Modern Accessibility for Modern Web Apps by Patrick Fox, Front-end web architect at Razorfish
- 4:00pm: Accessibility Challenges in Complex Web Applications by Shawn Lauriat, Software Engineer at Google
Bring your laptop/tablet if you want to take notes; free wifi is available. Lunch is on your own. Note: there’s only one hour for lunch.
