Archived Webinar Directory

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2020

Unmasking Accessibility: Moving Beyond a Band-Aid Solution

Live Broadcast Date:  Thursday, November 12, 2020
Speaker(s): Pina D'Intino, Principle Owner and Accessibility Consultant, Aequum Global Access Inc. and Jennifer Chadwick, Lead Accessibility Strategist, SiteImprove
Target Audience: Practitioners are who are looking to apply best practices within a structured approach in order to increase organizational maturity and sustain digital accessibility

The Forest and the Trees: Scaling for Enterprise-Level Digital Accessibility

Live Broadcast Date:  Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Speaker(s): Kathryn Weber-Hottleman, IT Accessibility Coordinator, University of Connecticut
Target Audience: Higher education professionals, CIOs, leaders of small accessibility offices

Reporting Accessibility with VPAT 2 - A Guide for Vendors

Live Broadcast Date:  Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Speaker(s): Jonathan Avila, Chief Accessibility Officer, Level Access
Target Audience: B2B Technology Companies, Software Companies, Engineers, Product Engineers, Products Managers, Technology Managers

UX/Usability Testing - IT Professionals with Disabilities Testing Your Product

Live Broadcast Date:  Thursday, August 6, 2020
Speaker(s): Heather Burns, Accessibility Consultant, Equal Entry and John Samuel, Head of LCI Tech, LCI
Target Audience: Program Managers, Designers, Managers - those that setup/fund usability studies?

Accessible Signage

Live Broadcast Date:  Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Speaker(s): BJ Epstein, Senior Designer, LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Target Audience: Architects, CASps, Sign Makers, Designers, Building Inspectors?

Digital Accessibility Trends: 2020 Update

Live Broadcast Date:  Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Speaker(s): Tim Springer, CEO, Level Access
Target Audience: Decision Makers, Product Managers, eCommerce Mangers/Directors, Legal, IT, Marketers?

Incorporating Personas and Workflows into VPAT Testing Methodology

Live Broadcast Date:  Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Speaker(s): Sheri Byrne-Haber, Head of Accessibility, VMware
Target Audience: Anyone involved in interpreting or authoring VPATs

WCAG 2.1 and Mobile Accessibility

Live Broadcast Date:  Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Speaker(s): Kara VanRoekel, Manager, Accessibility Services, Level Access
Target Audience: UX Specialists, Developers, UX Researcher, UX Designers, UX Analyst, Head of Product, Product Specialist

Designing Wayfinding Solutions and Signs that Work for Neuro-diverse Users

Live Broadcast Date:  Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Speaker(s): Christine Hemphill, Managing Director, Open Inclusion and Tom Pokinko, Research Director, Open Inclusion
Target Audience: Anyone considering how to design indoor or outdoor wayfinding including physical and digital solutions

Authoring Text Alternatives for Images, Part 2: Advanced Practice—Graphs, Diagrams, Maps, and Charts

Live Broadcast Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Speaker(s): Todd Marquis Boutin, Senior Director, Accessibility, SPi Global and Pina D'Intino, Accessibility Consultant, Aequum Global Access
Target Audience: Digital content producers, website developers, testers

Authoring Text Alternatives for Images, Part 1: An Introduction to Theory and Methods

Live Broadcast Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Speaker(s): Todd Marquis Boutin, Senior Director, Accessibility, SPi Global and Pina D'Intino, Accessibility Consultant, Aequum Global Access
Target Audience: Digital content producers, website developers, testers

2019

Develop, Test, Deploy: Accessible Email and Document Templates for an entire State

Live Broadcast Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Speaker(s): Jay Wyant, Chief Information Accessibility Officer, State of Minnesota IT Services; Kim Wee, Webmaster and Digital Accessibility Coordinator, MNIT partnering with Department of Education; and Jennie Delisi, Accessibility Analyst, State of Minnesota IT Services
Target Audience: Digital accessibility professionals, communications professionals (e.g. designers, those involved in branding, template creators)
Skill Level: Beginner - Intermediate - Advanced

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Advanced Social Media Accessibility

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, November 7, 2019
Speaker(s): Gian Wild, CEO, AccessibilityOz
Target Audience: Developers, Content Authors, Accessibility Specialists, and Project Managers
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced

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2019 UPDATE: Integrating Accessibility into IT Procurement

Live Broadcast Held On: Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Speaker(s): Jeff Kline, Program Director, Statewide EIR Accessibility, Texas Dept. of Information Resources
Target Audience: Anyone involved in procuring Accessible IT
Skill Level: Beginner - Intermediate - Advanced

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PDF Remediation Techniques

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Length: 1.5 hours
Speaker(s): Erik Boman-Börjesson, Project Manager, Funka
Target Audience: Editors, content creators, clerks, etc.

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AI and Web Accessibility

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, August 29, 2019
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Christian Heilman
Target Audience: Web decision makers / Developers

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Sharepoint For All!

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, July 17, 2019
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Jeni Delisi
Target Audience: Accessibility professionals; SharePoint site owners, content creators and contributors.

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Digital Accessibility ROI

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, May 23, 2019
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Gary Aussant
Target Audience: Internal Accessibility Champions & Consultants

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Social Media Accessibility

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, April 18, 2019
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Gian Wild
Target Audience: Developers, Content Authors, Accessibility Specialists, and Project Managers

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Tackling a Huge Website with WCAG-EM

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, February 28, 2019
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Peter Shikli
Target Audience: Website managers, upper management, big-picture web developers

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Building the Business Case for Accessibility

Live Broadcast Held On: Thusday, January 24, 2019
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Claudio Vera
Target Audience: Anyone advocating for accessibility in a large organization.

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2018

Let's not Ignore the People that Matter in Accessibility Testing

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, December 13, 2018
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker: Shilpi Kapoor
Target Audience: Accessibility Testers, Project Managers, Accessibility Leads

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Agile Accessibility in a Regulated Industry

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, November 15, 2018
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speakers: Curt Holst and Paul Cavanagh
Target Audience: Accessibility Managers, Agile Delivery Teams, Control Environment Owners

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ARIA: What, Why and When

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, October 11, 2018
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Phil Kragnes
Target Audience: Web and App developers, accessibility professionals, development team managers and supervisors

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Authoring Tools Accessibility: New US and European Requirements

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Michael Gower
Target Audience: Designers, Developers, Testers, and Policy Analysts

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How MacEwan University Created Accessible Learning Resources, and the Impact on Student Perceptions of their Learning

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Laurie Osbaldeston
Target Audience: AT Professionals, Course Designers, Disability Services Professionals

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Digital Accessibility Law for Developers, Designers, All of Us!

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Lainey Feingold
Target Audience: Anyone who works in the accessibility space

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Accessible Document Design in Higher Education

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, May 17, 2018
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Karen McCall
Target Audience: Anyone in higher education interested in creating a more inclusive learning ecosystem that includes all students, faculty, and staff with disabilities.

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Accessible Solutions for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Individuals with Hearing Loss in the Work Place

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, April 26, 2018
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Alana Beal
Target Audience: All Audiences

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VPAT 2.0 Essentials

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, March 29, 2018
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speakers: Glenn Meyer, Mary Jo Mueller
Target Audience: Product/Offering Managers, Procurement Officers, Vendors

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Bringing CSS and SVG Back into the Accessibility Spotlight

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speakers: Shwetank Dixit
Target Audience: Developers

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Beyond the Basics of PDF Accessibility - 2018 Update

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, January 18, 2018
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speakers: Karen McCall and Rob Haverty
Target Audience: Anyone working in the field of accessible document design, PDF remediation professionals and document authors

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2017

M-Enabling Summit 2017: Digital Accessibility Legal Update

Recorded At: M-Enabling Summit 2017
Length: 1.25 Hours
Speaker: Lainey Feingold, Law Offices of Lainey Feingold
Target Audience: Anyone who needs to understand the legal environment impacting digital accessibility for persons with disabilities.

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M-Enabling Summit 2017: Update and Considerations on Using the Latest Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Specification

Recorded At: M-Enabling Summit 2017
Length: 1.25 Hours
Speaker: John Avila, Chief Accessibility Officer, Level Access
Target Audience: Developers and those providing accessibility guidance to others.

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What Comes After WCAG 2.0?

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Target Audience: Web developers, content providers, and anyone who uses WCAG 2.0

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Integrating IT Accessibility into the Procurement Process

Live Broadcast Held On: Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Jeff Kline
Target Audience: Accessibility and procurement professionals involved in IT procurement

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PM-Led Accessibility: Shepherding the Accessible Design and Development Process

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Robert Jolly
Target Audience: Project and Product Managers, Executive Stakeholders, UX/Designers, Developers, QA

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Tools and Strategies for Testing Native Windows Software Apps for Accessibility

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, August 24, 2017
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Jonathan Avila
Target Audience: Testers, developers, and others that need to understand how to verify native software apps are accessible to people with disabilities and conformant to disability standards.

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Tools for Automating the Captioning of Video

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, July 27, 2017
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Joseph Polizzotto
Target Audience: Alternate media specialists, video editors, transcribers, and anyone involved in the creation of captioned videos.

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Where is Your Organization on the Accessibility Maturity Scale?

Live Broadcast Held On: Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Kathy Wahlbin, CEO and Founder, Interactive Accessibility
Target Audience: Anyone who wants to learn about how to integrate accessibility in their organization and how to asses where they are for accessibility maturity.

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Accessibility Legislation in Europe: Standards, Laws, and How to Interpret Them

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Susanna Laurin, CEO Funka Nu
Target Audience: Project managers, developers, designers, editors, and other roles in the ICT industry who want to sell to the public sector in Europe.  Anyone affected by this legislation.

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Accessible Design for an Aging Population

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, April 20, 2017
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speakers: Susann Keohane, Global Research Leader for Aging, Bo Campbell, Accessibility Design Lead, IBM
Target Audience: All

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Section 508 Refresh - Understanding the New Requirements

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, March 23, 2017
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Tim Springer, Founder and CEO, SSB Bart Group
Target Audience: Accessibility Professionals, Policymakers, Program Managers, Executives/General Managers

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Using the W3C ARIA Authoring Practices Guide 1.1 to Build Accessible Web Resources

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Jon Gunderson, Coordinator of Accessible IT Group, University of Illinois
Target Audience: UX Designers, software developers, Quality Assurance
Skill Level: Intermediate

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US Accessibility Laws: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Business

Live Broadcast Held On: Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Length: 1.5 Hours
Speaker: Ken Nakata, Director, Accessibility Consulting Practice, Cryptzone
Target Audience: Anyone who needs to understand the laws impacting website design for persons with disabilities and the standards that should be met.
Skill Level: Beginner

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2016

Making Accessibility a Design Problem

Live Broadcast Held On: Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Length: 1.5 hours
Speaker: Alastair Campbell, Director of Accessibility, Nomensa
Target Audience: Accessibility Professionals, developers, designers, testers, and anyone involved in the delivery of websites and web content to the general population
Skill Level: Intermediate

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Making the Web More Usable for Low Vision Audiences

Live Broadcast Held On: November 1, 2016
Length: 1.5 hours
Speaker: Aaron Leventhal, Director of Project Management, VFO Group; David Young, Director of Marketing, VFO Group
Target Audience: Accessibility professionals, developers, designers, testers, and anyone involved in the delivery of websites and web content to the general population
Skill Level: Intermediate

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How to Use JAWS Screen Reader to Verify Accessibility Features in a Web Application

Live Broadcast Held On: Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Length: 1.5 hours
Speaker: Hadi Rangin, IT Accessibility Specialist, University of Washington
Target Audience: Accessibility Specialists, Web Developers, Testers, QA
Skill Level: Intermediate

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Audio Description: The Visual Made Verbal

Live Broadcsat Held On: Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Length: 1.5 hours
Speaker: Dr. Joel Snyder, President-Director, Audio Description Associates, LLC – American Council of the Blind Audio Description Project
Target Audience: Accessibility Professionals, prospective describers
Skill Level: Intermediate

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Planning and Delivering a Diverse User Test

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, July 28, 2016
Length: 1.5 hours
Speakers: Joe Chidzik, Senior Accessibility Consultant and Raphael Clegg- Vinnell, Accessibility Consultant, AbilityNet
Target Audience: Accessibility\UX leads, QA
Skill Level: Beginner

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Designing a Better User Experience

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, June 30, 2016
Length: 1.5 hours
Speakers: Mary Jo Mueller, Accessibility Standards Program Manager, IBM and Bo Campbell, Accessibility Consultant Designer, IBM Research
Target Audience: Designers, developers
Skill Level: Intermediate

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What Makes A Video Player Accessible?

Live Broadcast Held On: Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Length: 1.5 hours
Speakers: Terrill Thompson, Technology Accessibility Specialist, University of Washington; Ken Petri, Director, Web Accessibility Center, The Ohio State University 
Target Audience: Web designers or developers
Skill Level: Beginner

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Accessibility in the Mobile Age

Live Broadcast Held On: Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Length: 1.5 hours
Speaker: Tim Springer, CEO, SSB Bart Group
Target Audience: Developers, Designers, Testers
Skill Level: Intermediate

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Organizational Change and Accessibility, Overcoming the Resistance

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, March 31, 2016
Length: 1.5 hours
Speaker: Chris Law, President, Accessibility Track Consulting, LLC
Target Audience: Accessibility consultants and practitioners, Section 508 Coordinators, accessibility program managers.
Skill Level: Advanced

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Writing Accessibility Tests Using JavaScript and CSS

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, January 28, 2016
Length: 1.5 hours
Speaker: Jonathan Avila, Chief Accessibility Officer, SSB BART Group
Target Audience: Developers, Testers, QA
Skill Level: Advanced

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2015

PDF Accessibility: Beyond the Basics

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Length: 1.5 hours
Speakers: Andrew Kirkpatrick, Group Product Manager, Accessibility, Adobe; Karen McCall, M.Ed., Accessible Document Design Consultant/Trainer, Karlen Communications
Target Audience: Accessibility repair specialists, document authors
Skill Level: Intermediate

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Latest Developments in Accessible Math in Browsers and Ebooks

Live Broadcast Held On: Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Length: 1.5 hours
Speakers: Sue-Ann Ma, Product Manager, Literacy, Benetech; Charles LaPierre, Senior Software Engineer, Benetech
Target Audience: Content architects, ebook producers, educational textbook publishers, web developers
Skill Level: Intermediate

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The Making of an Accessible iOS App for Non-Visual Access

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Length: 1.5 hours
Speakers: Frank Hoey, Senior iOS Developer, Data Speech Solutions, and Scott White, Director of Sponsored Technology Programs, National Federation of the Blind
Target Audience: Accessibility Professionals
Skill Level: Beginner 

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Building Accessibility to Address Cognitive Impairments

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Speakers: Lisa Seeman, Facilitator for WCAG's Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force, WAI/W3C and Co-Founder of Athena ICT; Rich Schwerdtfeger, CTO, Accessibility, IBM Software
Target Audience: Accessibility Professionals, Policymakers
Skill Level: Intermediate and Advanced

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EPUB3: Marching to Replace PDF as the Standard for Accessible Published Materials

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Length: 1.5 hours
Speakers: George Kerscher, Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium and Senior Officer of Accessible Technology-Learning Ally, and Becky Gibson, Senior Technical Staff Member, Accessibility, at IBM
Target Audience: Educators, authors, and corporate facilitators interested in learning more about EPUB and the options for using EPUB to create accessible materials 
Skill Level: Beginner and Intermediate 

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Mobile Accessibility on the Move

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 
Length: 1.5 hours 
Speaker: Kathy Wahlbin, CEO, Interactive Accessibility     
Target Audience: Everyone
Skill Level: Beginner 

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Modern Web Accessibility with JavaScript & WAI-ARIA

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 
Length: 1.5 hours 
Speaker: Paul Adam, Accessibility Evangelist, Deque   
Target Audience: Developers, QA, UX, designers
Skill Level: Intermediate and Advanced

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Overview of Global IT Accessibility Laws and Policies

Live Broadcast Held On: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 
Length: 1.5 hours 
Speaker: Ken Nakata, Director, Accessibility Consulting Practice, Cryptzone
Target Audience: Everyone
Skill Level: Beginner and Intermediate 

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Increase Your Influence, Build Your Career - Scaling Accessibility from Specialist Niche to Business-as-Usual 

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, January 22, 2015
Length: 1.5 hours 
Speaker: Jonathan Hassell, Director, Hassell Inclusion 
Target Audience: Every "accessibility superhero" who wants to punch above their weight
Skill Level: Intermediate 

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2014

HTML5 & ARIA for Meeting WCAG 2.0 Success Criteria

Live Broadcast Held On: Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Length: 1.5 hours
Speaker: Jon Gunderson, Ph.D (Human Factors), Coordinator of IT Accessibility, University of Illinois
Target Audience: Web Developers, User Interface Designers and Accessibility Testers 

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Using Assistive Technology (AT) in Accessibility Testing

Live Broadcast Held On: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 
Length: 1.5 hours
Speaker: Kathy Wahlbin, CEO and Founder, Interactive Accessibility
Target Audience: Beginners

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Rich Internet Apps – How to Make Them Accessible

Live Broadcast Held On: Thursday, August 14, 2014
Length: 1.5 hours
Speaker: Dylan Barrell, VP of Product Development, Deque Systems
Target Audience: Developers and Product Owners 

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Human Factors and Accessibility

Live Broadcast Held On: Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Length: 1.5 hours 
Speaker: Aaron Bangor, Ph.D., CHFP, Lead Accessible Technology Architect, AT&T and Daryle Gardner-Bonneau, Ph.D., Principal, Bonneau and Associates
Target Audience: Accessibility professionals who want to learn more about how their work corresponds with the human factors/usability profession; Human factors professionals who want to learn more about more inclusive design and research practices

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