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
Registration
Register for in-person, online or online with lunch! Tickets available through Humanitix starting at $40
- In-person at VisAbility for $60
- 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.
