Past events
December
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StartsLocation: International
November
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Blue Beanie Day
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React Summit US
Location:New York, United States and OnlineDescription
React Summit offers a hybrid format with both remote and in-person participation. The first day will be streamed from the New York venue including hybrid networking features and interactive entertainment; and the second day, as well as the numerous free workshops, will be streamed to the global audience online.
3 accessibility highlights
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AI and Accessibility: We Got a Lot to Talk About
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React UI Accessibility on TV - Practical Case Study in Real Production
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Accessibility Granted: Building Inclusive Components One Test at a Time
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AI and Accessibility: We Got a Lot to Talk About
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Agile Testing Days 2024
Location:Potsdam, Germany and OnlineDescription
More than 140+ sessions including inspiring keynotes, experience talks, hands-on workshops and full-day tutorials covering the latest agile software testing insights for you.
8 accessibility highlights
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Empowering Inclusive Testing: A Guide to Accessibility
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Update on Accessibility Laws in the European Union
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Accessibility testing doesn't need to be hard
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On the road to agile A11Y testing
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Breaking Accessibility Barriers
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Accessibility Charters and Quadrants
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Accessibility Deep Dive Panel Discussion and Q&A
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Accessibility Deep Dive Open Space
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Empowering Inclusive Testing: A Guide to Accessibility
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performance.now()
Location:Amsterdam and OnlineDescription
Performance.now() is a single track conference with fourteen world-class sessions, covering today’s most important web performance insights.
1 accessibility highlight
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Eric Bailey: Accessible is Performant
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Eric Bailey: Accessible is Performant
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World Usability Day
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TechShare Pro 2024
Location:HSBC, Canary Wharf, London, UK and OnlineDescription
Europe's largest gathering of accessibility and inclusion professionals, spotlighting ground-breaking topics such as the European Accessibility Act, Accessibility Leadership and Artificial Intelligence in Accessibility.
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ffconf 2024
Location: Brighton, UKDescription
A full day of eight carefully curated sessions for an audience that cares about the future of the web, and who want their ideas challenged.
1 accessibility highlight
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AI and Accessibility: the Good, the Bad, and the Bollocks
Talk · Not yet scheduled
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AI and Accessibility: the Good, the Bad, and the Bollocks
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Beyond Tellerrand Berlin
Location: Berlin, GermanyDescription
Affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Munich with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and friendly atmosphere.
Accessibility highlights
Beyond Tellerrand Berlin is expected to include one or more accessibility-themed sessions but the full schedule has not yet been announced. Details will be published here closer to the date of the event.
October
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World Stroke Day
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World Sight Day
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WordPress Accessibility Day 2024
Location: OnlineDescription
24-hour global event dedicated to promoting and learning website accessibility best practices for WordPress websites.
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SmashingConf New York
Location:New World Stages, New York and OnlineDescription
SmashingConf New York is focused on Front-end and UX, and covers quite a range of topics from modern CSS to interface design. Our audience is super smashing, and ranges from junior UX'ers to senior developers.
2 accessibility highlights
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Carie Fisher: Accessible Components from Design to Development
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Carie Fisher: How To Use AI To Build Accessible Products
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Carie Fisher: Accessible Components from Design to Development
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Dyslexia Awareness Week
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#a11yTO Conf 2024
Location:Toronto, Canada and OnlineDescription
During #a11yWeekTO, you can expect multiple accessibility events in Downtown Toronto, including free social events and our two-day, single-track Digital Accessibility Conference.
September
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ADHD Awareness Month
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International Day of Sign Languages
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State of the Browser 2024
Location:The Barbican Centre, London and OnlineDescription
A one-day, single-track conference with widely-varying talks about the modern web, accessibility, web standards, and more, organised by London Web Standards.
2 accessibility highlights
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Steve Faulkner: No industry for old men
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Lola Odelola: Improving Accessibility with ARIA-AT
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Steve Faulkner: No industry for old men
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Inclusive Design 24
Location: OnlineDescription
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) is a free 24-hour online event for the global community. It celebrates inclusive design and shares knowledge and ideas from analogue to digital, from design to development, from planners to practitioners, and everything and everyone in between.
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SmashingConf Freiburg
Location:Freiburg, Germany and OnlineDescription
Focused on front-end and UX, SmashingConf is a friendly event focused on real-world problems and solutions. 2 days, 1 track, 12 speakers, 300–400 attendees and a handful of hands-on workshops.
5 accessibility highlights
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Oliver Schöndorfer: Typographer vs. Accessibility
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Sandy Dähnert: Sustainable Design For Nature And All People
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Accessibility in layers: the automation workflow to help tackle the European Accessibility Act
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Sarah L. Fossheim: Practical Accessibility
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Sarah L. Fossheim: Accessibility in Data Visualization
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Oliver Schöndorfer: Typographer vs. Accessibility
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World Alzheimer’s Month
Starts EndsLocation: International
August
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Web Accessibility in Mind Conference
Location: OnlineDescription
Presented by WebAIM in partnership with Pope Tech, this virtual conference will provide participants with content that will help them mature their practice in digital accessibility.
June
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Disability Pride Month
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Figma Config 2024
Location:San Fransisco, CA and OnlineDescription
Figma's conference for people who build products.
1 accessibility highlight
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Pitching accessible design like a pro
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Pitching accessible design like a pro
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UX London 2024
Location: London, UKDescription
Three-day conference covering all aspects of the design process from user research and product design through to design ops and design systems.
1 accessibility highlight
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Demystifying Inclusive Research
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Demystifying Inclusive Research
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Pixel Pioneers Bristol
Location: Bristol, UKDescription
An affordable one-day conference of practical and inspiring front-end and UX/UI design talks, featuring eight world-class speakers.
1 accessibility highlight
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Less ‘Help’, More ‘Yelp’: When Accessibility Enthusiasm Actively Harms
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Less ‘Help’, More ‘Yelp’: When Accessibility Enthusiasm Actively Harms
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Accessibility Club Summit 2024
Location: Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesDescription
Taking place right after CSS Day 2024, the summit features a full-day barcamp and a second day with community run workshops. Join us for two days of gaining knowledge about web accessibility, exchanging experiences and meeting like-minded enthusiasts from all over Europe and beyond.
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CSS Day 2024
Location:Amsterdam, Netherlands and OnlineDescription
An advanced, single-track CSS conference for designers, developers, spec writers and browser vendors.
1 accessibility highlight
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Accessibility and CSS with Sara Soueidan
Talk · Not yet scheduled
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Accessibility and CSS with Sara Soueidan
May
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User Experience Lisbon
Location: Lisbon, PortugalDescription
Join UX friends from all over the world for a one-of-a-kind learning experience. It’s 4 days to soak in new knowledge and strengthen your skillset.
4 accessibility highlights
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Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility
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Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility
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Accessibility as a Design Tool
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Innovating with Accessibility
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Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility
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A11y Bytes Melbourne
Location: Melbourne, AustraliaDescription
A11y Bytes is a dynamic fast-paced evening of lightning talks about digital accessibility and the needs and preferences of users with disabilities.
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A11y Bytes Sydney
Location: Sydney, AustraliaDescription
A11y Bytes is a dynamic fast-paced evening of lightning talks about digital accessibility and the needs and preferences of users with disabilities.
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day
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Virtua11y 2024
Location: OnlineDescription
Nomensa's free, virtual web accessibility and digital inclusion conference. All sessions are recorded and everyone that signs up will have exclusive access to the recordings.
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Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf
Location: Düsseldorf, GermanyDescription
Affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Munich with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and friendly atmosphere.
2 accessibility highlights
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Accessible Typography for Web and UI Design
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Typographer vs. Accessibility
Talk · Not yet scheduled
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Accessible Typography for Web and UI Design
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11ty Conference 2024
Location: OnlineDescription
A brand new exclusively (and extremely) online (virtual) single-day single-track conference dedicated to Web Development and the Eleventy static site generator.
1 accessibility highlight
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Light Mode Versus Dark Mode
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Light Mode Versus Dark Mode
March
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World Down Syndrome Day
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Neurodiversity Celebration Week
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CSUN Assistive Technology Conference
Location: Anaheim, CADescription
An inclusive setting for researchers, practitioners, exhibitors, end users, speakers and other participants to share knowledge and best practices in the field of assistive technology.
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Patterns Day
Location: Brighton, UKDescription
Brought to you by Clearleft, this is a one-day event for designers and developers focused on design systems, pattern libraries, style guides, and components.
1 accessibility highlight
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Navigating Accessibility in Design Systems
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Navigating Accessibility in Design Systems
February
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TechAccess Oklahoma 2024
Location: Oklahoma, USDescription
Accessibility experts from across the US join together to share their extensive knowledge with you.
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Zero Project Conference 2024
Location:Vienna, Austria and OnlineDescription
The Zero Project Conference will reunite the global disability inclusion community, and highlight outstanding innovations centred around this year's topics of Inclusive Education, and ICT.
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axe-con 2024
Location: OnlineDescription
Axe-con is the world’s largest digital accessibility conference that welcomes developers, designers, business users, and accessibility professionals of all experience levels to an accessibility conference focused on building, testing, and maintaining accessible digital experiences.
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International Epilepsy Day
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State of Open Con 2025
Location: London, UKDescription
The UK's open technology conference covering open source software, open hardware and open data.
3 accessibility highlights
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The Inclusive Codebase: Engineering Accessibility in Open Source Software
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Inclusive by Design: Revolutionizing Accessibility
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Enhancing Open-Source Development: A Focus on Accessible Documentation
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The Inclusive Codebase: Engineering Accessibility in Open Source Software
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FOSDEM 2024
Location: Brussels, BelgiumDescription
A free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in!
2 accessibility highlights
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Web Accessibility and Environmental Sustainability and with Popular CMS
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Web-accessibility for open-source privacy & security tools
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Web Accessibility and Environmental Sustainability and with Popular CMS
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Day
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Raynaud’s Awareness Month
Starts EndsLocation: UK
January
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ATIA 2024
Location:Orlando, Florida and OnlineDescription
Connect with thousands of assistive technology practitioners, teachers, parents, caregivers, persons with disabilities, and more.Discover new technologies, opportunities, and creative ideas that support the power of the AT community.
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World Braille Day
StartsLocation: International
December 2023
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React Day Berlin 2024
Location:Berlin, Germany and OnlineDescription
Dive into cutting-edge talks, level up your tech stack with hands-on workshops, and forge connections in a network of React enthusiasts.
1 accessibility highlight
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Case Study: Building Accessible Reusable React Components at GitHub
Talk · Not yet scheduled
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Case Study: Building Accessible Reusable React Components at GitHub
November 2023
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DevFest Berlin
Location: Berlin, GermanyDescription
GDG DevFest Berlin brings together the world class experts in Android, Web and Cloud technologies to Berlin for the whole day of sessions, workshops and showcases.
1 accessibility highlight
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Android Accessibility: Do or Do
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Android Accessibility: Do or Do
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Wey Wey Web
Location: Málaga, SpainDescription
A multi-disciplinary conference that brings together the full spectrum of individuals involved on the latest trends and practices in Web and Mobile development and UX and Product design.
1 accessibility highlight
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Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility with Anna E. Cook
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Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility with Anna E. Cook
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Interact Amsterdam
Location: OnlineDescription
Interact Amsterdam Virtual Conference is Nomensa's free, virtual offering of Interact Amsterdam. Join us for six talks covering the central theme of Designing Tomorrow from some of the world's leading thinkers in UX and design.
1 accessibility highlight
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Accessibility, the Future and YOU
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Accessibility, the Future and YOU
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TestBash Autumn
Location: OnlineDescription
2-day online software testing conference covering a wide variety of testing topics, including a talk on how to advocate for accessibility testing and implement it in your teams.
1 accessibility highlight
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How to Advocate for Accessibility Testing and Implementing It on Your Teams
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How to Advocate for Accessibility Testing and Implementing It on Your Teams
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UK Disability History Month
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TechShare Pro
Location:Canary Wharf, London and OnlineDescription
Europe's largest gathering of accessibility and inclusion professionals and their allies. Meet like-minded people and learn from the world's leading experts, either online or in-person.
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Agile Testing Days
Location:Potsdam, Germany and OnlineDescription
4-day conference where 600+ international agile software testers and engineers gather to learn, share, and network. This year's accessibility talks include 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to mobile accessibility' and 'Automated Accessibility Testing: A Showcase'.
3 accessibility highlights
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Shift Accessibility testing to the Left
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to mobile accessibility
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Automated Accessibility Testing a showcase
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Shift Accessibility testing to the Left
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Purple Tuesday
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Magnify 2023
Location: OnlineDescription
This conference will explore topics that support practitioners implement equity-seeking design and research processes in meaningful ways online. Talks are pre-recorded to make them as accessible as possible, and reduce any tech problems.
4 accessibility highlights
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Benchmarking accessibility at the Co-op
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Exploring Scalable Research and Inclusive Design Strategies
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I know you can't read this: Combatting accidental exclusion in your presentations
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Inclusively shifting left with Assistive Technology prototype reviews
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Benchmarking accessibility at the Co-op
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ReTestBash UK
Location: OnlineDescription
The ultimate online conference designed to deepen your knowledge and extend your learning from the TestBash UK 2023 Conference. As the name suggests, ReTestBash revolves around reflection, providing you with the perfect opportunity to dive even deeper into the diverse software testing topics covered at TestBash UK.
1 accessibility highlight
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Discussion: Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion
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Discussion: Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion
October 2023
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Web Directions Summit
Location:Sydney, Australia and OnlineDescription
Expect top notch ideas, reams of actionable insights and life changing connections. There are 8 tracks of content, with talks on WCAG 2.0 for designers and baking accessibility into design systems.
2 accessibility highlights
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Five Fundamental Principles of Inclusive Research
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Baking Accessibility into Your Design System
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Five Fundamental Principles of Inclusive Research
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#a11yTO Conf
Location:Toronto, Canada and OnlineDescription
During #a11yWeekTO, you can expect multiple accessibility events in Downtown Toronto, including free social events, #a11yTOGaming, and our two-day, single-track Digital Accessibility Conference hosted at Microsoft.
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Interact London
Location: Museum of LondonDescription
Design conference where the best minds from UX, design, AI, data and more share their ideas with digital leaders from around the world, including Jonny Hendriks, Nomensa's Head of Accessibility. You can also book a session in the Empathy Lab the day before the main conference.
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M-Enabling Summit
Location: Washington, DCDescription
Join disability advocates, corporations, government agencies, academia, and accessibility executives at the leading all-inclusive conference and showcase dedicated to fostering innovations, solutions, and strategies for digital inclusion.
September 2023
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Down Syndrome Awareness Month
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Inclusive Design 24
Location: OnlineDescription
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) is a free 24-hour online event for the global community. It celebrates inclusive design and shares knowledge and ideas from analogue to digital, from design to development, from planners to practitioners, and everything and everyone in between.