Perth Accessibility Meetup Group

Perth Web Accessibility Camp 2021

The Perth Web Accessibility Conference is back for 2021!

Tuesday 23rd February

Venue

VisAbility, Perron Place, 61 Kitchener Avenue, Victoria Park WA 6100 (across the road from the Victoria Park Train Station)

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Registration

In light of travel restrictions in Australia you can attend either in person or virtually. Find our more about registrations here:

Highlights

A favourite in the calendar for many accessibility minded people in Perth, this fantastic one day event is your chance to learn and share about web accessibility in a casual environment.

This year we are proud to be partnering with W3C Australian Western Region Chapter, who are contributing guest speakers from the W3C in addition to an already amazing list of local speakers.

And of course The Great Debate returns for it’s 8th edition! This year’s topic: “Web accessibility should take a back seat during a global pandemic.”

Schedule

We'll be featuring your favourite local speakers plus international and interstate guests.

Time Presenter Topic
09.00am MC David Vosnacos Welcome
09.15am Bill Kasdorf, Kasdorf & Associates, LLC W3C Global Publishing Evangelist Mainstreaming Accessibility: "Born Accessible" is Growing Up
09.45am Shawn Henry, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) / MIT Making videos and remote sessions accessible – and other new W3C WAI resources
10.15am Amanda Mace, Web Key IT WCAG 2.2: what to expect
10.45am No presenters - just time to take a break and network! Morning break
11.00am Dr Scott Hollier, Centre For Accessibility Australia Accessible Tertiary education in the COVID-19 era
11.30am Vithya Vijayakumare, Danielle Gault and David Vosnacos VisAbility’s accessible rebranding journey
12.00pm Chris Leighton, UWA Tools of the trade or 'what's great in my crate'
12.30pm No presenters - time to eat and network and not necessarily in that order! Lunch
1.30pm Dr Scott Hollier, Matt Putland, Vithya Vijayakumare, Julie Grundy, Chris Leighton, Amanda Mace Great Debate VIII: Web accessibility should take a back seat during a global pandemic
2.15pm Jacqueline Homer, DADAA Digital access and the Arts project
2.45pm Matt Putland, Vision Australia Mobile app accessibility – how's it different?
3.15pm No presenters - still more time to network! Afternoon break
3.30pm Joshue O'Connor, W3C/WAI XR Accessibility User Requirements
4.00pm Liddy Neville, OZeWAI The AccessForAll approach: Just-in-case + just-in-time = Inclusion – discrimination
4.30pm PWAC Committee Close and Sundowner, Blasta Brewing Company

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Sponsors

If you’d like to sponsor this year’s event, please contact Amanda Mace for details.