Your chance to learn and share about web accessibility in a casual environment is back for 2024. We’re having a mixed online and in-person event again - come and join accessibility professionals, students, developers, designers and managers as we learn how to make digital products accessible to everyone.
Venue
VisAbility
The Perron Centre
61 Kitchener Avenue, Victoria Park 6100
Directly opposite Victoria Park Station, but please note: the train station will be closed on the day
Virtual via Zoom for $40, or $60 to include an Uber Eats voucher for lunch
Our generous sponsors make this one of the best-value events in Perth.
Highlights
Juanita George, an ADA Digital Program Manager from Navy Federal Credit Union, will be telling us how to get our vendors to supply us with accessible products.
Lisa Seeman, facilitator of the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force at W3C, is going to show us resources for making things accessible for people with cognitive and learning disabilities.
Also featuring: Simon Mateljan from Atlassian, Rosie Putland (back in Perth for a visit!) from Modality Co, Laura Moller from the Disability Leadership Institute and Nicholas Kapirnas from the Centre for Accessibility Australia.
Schedule
Time
Event
8:30am
Registration
9:00am
Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
9:15am
Holding Vendors Accountable: Juanita George
10:15am
How to make online meetings more accessible: Vithya Vijayakumare, VisAbility
10:50am
Morning break
11:20am
A quick overview of video accessibility: Nicholas Kapirnas, Centre for Accessibility Australia
11:55am
Baking accessibility into your design system: Simon Mateljan, Atlassian
12:30pm
Lunch. Grab your lunch pack and meet some Guide Dogs!
1:30pm
Great Debate: Accessibility audits should only be done on leap years
2:15pm
Why disability justice should be at the core of your accessibility journey: Rosie Putland, Modality Co
2:50pm
Improving digital accessibility for people with mental health conditions: Laura Moller, Coles
3:25pm
Afternoon break
3:45pm
Cognitive accessibility and the W3C COGA Task Force: Lisa Seeman
4:20pm
Accessibility apprentices program: Bri Norton and Amanda Mace, OZeWAI
5:00pm
Close
Our sponsors
We are so grateful for the generous support of our sponsors, which allows us to put on an affordable community event each year.
If you'd like to sponsor an event which attracts people from local and state government, design agencies and corporate leaders of Western Australia, please contact Amanda Mace for details.
