axe-con 2026 Agenda

All sessions have live captions and ASL provided.

Wednesday February 25

Tuesday February 24

Time	Keynotes
9:00am	Opening Keynote Rana el Kaliouby,

Time	Development	Design	Organizational Success with Accessibility	Wildcard
11:00am	The next next billion users Ire Aderinokun,	Accessibility in the End of Deterministic Design (Again) Anna Cook,
12:00pm	Shift Left Without Shifting Gears: Accessibility in Your Existing Workflow Harris Schneiderman,	Accessibility Annotations Around the World Daniel Henderson-Ede, Jaan Maarten,
1:00pm	Integrating axe for automated testing in a distributed engineering environment Peter Bossley, Corey Hinshaw, Pavan Mudigonda,	Igniting the Spark: Building Accessibility Influence From the Bottom Up Emma Torres,
2:00pm		Adapting Web-Based Cognitive Accessibility Guidelines for Mobile Care Experiences Bhuvana Narayanamurthy,
3:00pm		The Accessible Design Specialists Playbook Pawel Wodkowski,

Wednesday February 25

Time	Keynotes
10:00am	Day 2 – Opening Keynote Haben Girma,

Time	Development	Design	Organizational Success with Accessibility	Wildcard
9:00am		How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility Stéphanie Walter,
11:00am		A practical framework for designing and engineering safe, resilient, and inclusive motion Stefan Chitu,
12:00pm	Testing web experiences with your keyboard Greg Gibson,	When Inclusion Meets Automation: Lessons from Microsoft Cherisha Agarwal,
1:00pm		Users know best: Embracing user styles for resilient designs Josh Hetrick,
2:00pm		CSAT as a Tool for Accessibility Insights: Lessons from Arizona State University Victoria Polchinski,