Whether you’re a web designer, developer, content strategist, or digital specialist seeking to improve your digital accessibility skills, you won’t want to miss this year’s annual John Slatin AccessU 2021 conference.
Produced by Knowbility, one of the most respected leaders in accessible information technology, this year’s AccessU conference is a virtual conference on May 13 and May 18-20, 2021.
American Disability Rights Activist Judith (Judy) Heumann, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Accessibility Evangelist Shawn Lawton Henry, and Center for Civic Design director Whitney Quesenbery are among the many professionals who will be speaking at the event.
About AccessU
Named after the late John Slatin, an early leader in web accessibility who worked at the University of Texas, AccessU 2021 is a four-day virtual training event that teaches accessibility, usability, and inclusive design to everyone who wants to integrate accessibility into their organization.
The event consists of one day of immersive workshops and three days of multi-track training classes.
On the full-day of hands-on pre-conference workshops on May 13, 2021, instructors take focused deep dives into:
- Design
- Development
- Usability
- Management
The conference sessions on May 18-20, 2021 cover a wide range of topics, including:
- General
- Design/User Experience
- Content/Documents
- Gaming/Extended Reality (XR)/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Policy/Strategy
- Development/Coding/Testing
- Teach Access
Sessions range from beginner to advanced.
In addition, AccessU will host keynote talks, mentoring session, meetups, discussion channels, and evening events for conference attendees
What You Need to Know
Whether you’re beginning your journey into accessibility and inclusive design or someone who is looking to improve your accessibility knowledge, you’ll found a session that interests you.
The conference will be held May 13, 2021 to May 20, 2021 Central Daylight Savings Time. The full-day workshop and conference sessions start each day at 9:00AM Central Daylight Time.
Here are the registration details:
- Premier (includes one full-day pre-conference workshop, three-day conference, and all activities): $399 (U.S. dollars)
- Virtual AccessU (May 18-20, 2021 conference): $329.00 (U.S. dollars)
- Deep Dives (one full-day pre-conference workshop on May 13, 2021): $129.00 (U.S. dollars)
Sales for the Premier and Virtual AccessU registration end May 20,2021; sales for the Deep Dives one-day workshop end May 13, 2021
Check the schedule before the event so you can plan which sessions you want to attend.
Here are a few of the sessions that interest me:
- Get It Right the 1st Time: How to Stop 80% of your A11Y Bugs During Development
- The WAI to Web Accessibility: A Tour of New Resources from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
- 5 things Every Beginner Should Know About WordPress Accessibility
- Universities Advancing Accessibility
- Inclusive Design: The Big Picture
Wrapping Up
Begin or advance your web accessibility and inclusive design knowledge by attending the John Slatin Virtual AccessU 2021 conference.
You’ll learn from respected and knowledgeable accessibility professionals, leaders in the field, and walk away with actionable items for your web projects.
I’ll be attending the event (note: Knowbility has graciously provided me a ticket for this year’s conference).
I’ll be live tweeting during the sessions I attend.
Follow me at @redcrew on Twitter to catch some of the helpful resources and accessibility tips I learn.
Hope you consider attending!
