axe-con 2026 Agenda

All sessions have live captions and ASL provided.

Wednesday February 25

Tuesday February 24

Time	Keynotes
3:00pm	Opening Keynote Rana el Kaliouby,
4:00pm	A special presentation from Deque Dylan Barrell, Preety Kumar,

Time	Development	Design	Organizational Success with Accessibility	Wildcard
5:00pm	Building for a new next billion users Ire Aderinokun,	Accessibility in the End of Deterministic Design (Again) Anna Cook,	Scaling Accessibility in a Complex Enterprise: Lessons from Audits, Adoption, and Shared Practices Ryan Schoch,	The Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape Lainey Feingold,
6:00pm	Shift Left Without Shifting Gears: Accessibility in Your Existing Workflow Harris Schneiderman,	Accessibility Annotations Around the World Daniel Henderson-Ede, Jan Maarten,	F.C.Barcelona: more than a football club David Sabaté,	European Accessibility Act (EAA) Compliance Update Matthew Luken,
7:00pm	Integrating axe for automated testing in a distributed engineering environment Peter Bossley, Corey Hinshaw, Pavan Mudigonda,	More Practical Strategies for Accessible Design (Part Two) Eric Zirlinger,	Mystery session – coming soon! Mystery Speaker – Coming soon!,	Inclusive, Engaging Accessibility Presentations (Ditch the Dull!) Kai Wong,
8:00pm	Proactive Inclusion: Embedding Accessibility into the AI Revolution at Coinbase Sam Smith,	Igniting the Spark: Building Accessibility Influence From the Bottom Up Emma Torres,	Proving Progress: The Metrics Behind Sustainable Accessibility Glenda Sims,	Inside Screen Readers: Demystifying the Black Box Sagir Khan,
9:00pm	Balancing Automation and Human Insight in Mobile Testing Rachael Yomtoob, Megan Pletzer,	The Accessible Design Specialists Playbook Pawel Wodkowski,		The Myth of Neutral Design: How Accessibility Gets Lost in ‘Objective’ Systems Angela Young,

Wednesday February 25

Time	Keynotes
4:00pm	Day 2 – Opening Keynote Haben Girma,

Time	Development	Design	Organizational Success with Accessibility	Wildcard
3:00pm	Development Track Opener Jesse Beach,	How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility Stéphanie Walter,	Organizational Success at HSBC UK Mali M Fernando, MBE,	Is Something Fundamental Still Missing From the Accessibility Ecosystem? Matt King,
5:00pm	Axe innovations: Harnessing AI responsibly to automate accessibility testing Wilco Fiers, Noé Barrell,	A practical framework for designing and engineering safe, resilient, and inclusive motion Stefan Chitu,	The European Accessibility Gap: Measuring Private Sector Compliance with the EAA Using axe-core Alex Haidar,	The Gaps We Inherit Lola Odelola,
6:00pm	Accessibility Adventures: The Lost Secrets Of Forced Colors Mode Daniel Yuschick,	Better Together: UX and Accessibility in Action Noa Nitzan,	Designing for Everyone: IKEA’s Journey Toward Inclusive Digital Experiences Tie Wang,	Building Accessible Enterprise Applications: A Developer’s Playbook Jeremy Rivera,
7:00pm	The Accessibility Impostors Game Show Jennifer Gorfine,	When Inclusion Meets Automation: Lessons from Microsoft Cherisha Agarwal,	Building Without Barriers on GitHub Ed Summers,	ADA Title II: Panel Discussion Alisa Shtromberg, Emilie Berglund, Karen Pellegrin,
8:00pm	Testing web experiences with your keyboard Greg Gibson,	Adapting Web-Based Cognitive Accessibility Guidelines for Mobile Care Experiences Bhuvana Narayanamurthy,	Small Team, Big Shift: Lessons learned from four years of building an accessibility program at a mid-sized SaaS Evelyn Wightman, Amanda Bolton, Stephen Cutchins,	If AI is the key to the Future, are Disabled People Locked out? Carmel Heydarian, Alyssa Shock, Arielle Silverman,
9:00pm	Making Platform React Chart Components Accessible Ambika Yadav,	CSAT as a Tool for Accessibility Insights: Lessons from Arizona State University Victoria Polchinski,	Changing the World Through Procurement Accessibility Mark Stimson,	Never Judge a PDF by Its Cover Layer Destin Hubble,