axe-con 2024 Agenda

All on-demand recordings have captions and ASL provided.

Thursday February 22

Monday February 19

Time	Pre-Conference	Development	Design	Organizational Success with Accessibility	Wildcard
2:00pm	On Demand The Value of Accessibility Certifications Samantha Evans, Paul Bohman, PhD,	No session	No session	No session	No session

Tuesday February 20

Time	Keynotes
9:00am	On Demand Responsible and Ethical AI Dr. Rumman Chowdhury,
10:00am	On Demand Human-Centered AI and Accessibility Dylan Barrell, Preety Kumar,

Time	Pre-Conference	Development	Design	Organizational Success with Accessibility	Wildcard
11:00am	No session	On Demand Empowering People with Disabilities Using GitHub Copilot Ed Summers, Carie Fisher, Jesse Dugas,	On Demand “That’s great, but how do I convince my boss?”: Overcoming Bias to Advocate for Change David Dylan Thomas,	On Demand Navigating the Accessibility Iceberg: Approaches for Organizational Accessibility Excellence Kelsey Hall,	On Demand The Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape Lainey Feingold,
12:00pm	No session	On Demand The Future of axe Tools Dylan Barrell,	On Demand Assembling a network of accessibility advocacy through UX design Ray Dahl, PhD,	On Demand How to Build an Accessibility Program and Culture Mike Shebanek, Greg Williams, Gurpreet Kaur,	On Demand What WCAG 2.2 Means for Native Mobile Accessibility Rachael Yomtoob, Devanshu Chandra,
1:00pm	No session	On Demand Integrate Accessibility Snapshot Testing into the Mobile Build Process Andrea Skeries, Nicole Bergstrom, David Brunow, Lauren Ludovicy, Wilfred Ilagan,	On Demand Does your design conform with WCAG accessibility guidelines — or does it comply? Cintia Pereira Romero Garcia,	On Demand How to Outgrow your Accessibility Partner Chas Steinmetz,	On Demand Future of accessibility guidelines Wilco Fiers, Glenda Sims,
2:00pm	No session	On Demand AI Systems for Accessibility Noé Barrell, Dylan Sheffer,	On Demand Designing Accessible Dashboards Emily Kund,	On Demand Don’t let your vision be a dream David Tisserand,	On Demand Building an Enterprise-Level Accessibility Skills Program for Development Teams Shivaji Kumar,

Wednesday February 21

Time	Keynotes
11:00am	On Demand Advocating for Change Jonah Berger,

Time	Pre-Conference	Development	Design	Organizational Success with Accessibility	Wildcard
9:00am	No session	On Demand Migrating Signet’s sites to Angular – an Accessibility Journey Amanda Hennel,	On Demand *The Folly of Chasing Demographics (Content Warning)** Heydon Pickering,	On Demand Rising Tides: Disability Inclusion in the DEI Landscape Kathy Martinez,	On Demand How AI will help us re-invent accessibility, lower industry load, and cover more disabilities. Gregg Vanderheiden,
10:00am	No session	On Demand Lessons Learned from Mobile App Accessibility Testing Rachele DiTullio,	On Demand Neuroinclusive Content Design Laurie Cameron-Back,	On Demand Driving Accessibility Transformation Through Policy: P&G’s Accessibility Journey Paul Gallagher,	On Demand The impact of AI on people with disabilities Matthew Johnston,
12:00pm	No session	On Demand Get It Right the 1st Time: Stop 80%+ of A11Y Bugs During Development Glenda Sims, Sachin Gupta,	On Demand Capturing Disabled Voices: How we are building our own research panel Zoe Portlock,	On Demand Establishing a Scalable A11y Education Ecosystem Alexis Lucio, Catharine McNally, Lindsey Wild,	On Demand AI as an A11y (Ally) Kelly Goto, Colin Wong,
1:00pm	No session	On Demand Accessible Component Libraries: The Foundation of Accessibility at Scale Rachael Yomtoob,	On Demand Building a culture of accessibility through design annotation Damian Sian, Taniya Bhosale,	On Demand Turning an oil tanker in a storm Stuart Trevithick,	On Demand From Exclusion to Inclusion: Advancing Accessible Gaming Together Morgan Baker,
2:00pm	No session	On Demand Easy Digital Accessibility: What’s Your +1? Kathryn Weber-Hottleman,	On Demand Multisensory Design: Accessibility as a Creative Practice for Designers Lauren Race,	On Demand Measuring and Benchmarking Accessibility Niki Ramesh,	On Demand Improving Accessibility through Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) Sheri Byrne-Haber,

Thursday February 22

Time	Keynotes
2:00pm	On Demand Helping Debunk Disability Stigma Squirmy and Grubs,

Time	Pre-Conference	Development	Design	Organizational Success with Accessibility	Wildcard
9:00am	No session	On Demand Pixel-perfect is dead, long live to adaptive and accessible iOS apps Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats,	On Demand ARIA (are ya) afraid of the dark?: Unmasking common HTML monsters to create better user experiences KJ Schmidt,	On Demand What it Takes to Make Your Digital Accessibility Program Vision a Reality Mali M Fernando, MBE, Preety Kumar,	On Demand Disability Inclusion Beyond Accessibility Standards Giselle Mota,
10:00am	No session	On Demand Cypress Component Testing for Accessibility: Taking Axe to the Root Miloš Jovanović,	On Demand Building Your Program Through Metrics and Storytelling Matthew Luken,	On Demand How to get stakeholder buy-in for your product’s accessibility Noorul Ameen,	On Demand Inaccessible Marketing Emails Suck! Erik Gustafsson Spagnoli,
11:00am	No session	On Demand The Next Generation of Automated Accessibility Testing for Mobile Apps Megan Pletzer,	On Demand The Power of User Research to Increase Fitness Accessibility Emma Torres, Andrea Sutyak,	On Demand Ignite change; 5 sure-fire strategies to locate a C-Suite digital accessibility champion to help remove roadblocks as you transform your organization to one of digital inclusion. Patrick Sturdivant,	On Demand Text-To-Image Accessibility Mary Ann Jawili,
12:00pm	No session	On Demand Using the WebAIM Million and User Surveys to Inform Accessibility Efforts Jared Smith,	On Demand What is “equivalent” text alternatives for artistic and cultural visual content? Willa Armstrong, Dr. Rachael Bradley Montgomery, Elizabeth (Liz) Bottner,	On Demand Disability Inclusive Marketing: What’s the Playbook? Elodie Fichet, Ph.D.,	On Demand Digital Wildfire – Burnout and Bias Soren Hamby,
1:00pm	No session	On Demand How Do You Make Accessibility Testing as Efficient as Possible? Harris Schneiderman,	On Demand Demystifying the APCA (Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm) James Sullivan,	On Demand Digital Accessibility and Knowing When to Flex Laila Coulton,	On Demand A11y in Cybersecurity Panel Patrick Sturdivant, Justin Merhoff, Emily Kiehl, Aliyu Yisa,