The 4th Annual
ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium:
Perfecting Traditional Methods,
Tackling Emerging Interfaces

PEER REVIEWED · PUBLISHED · OPEN · INTERACTIVE · ORIGINAL

Tuesday, October 1 & Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Monday, September 30 for Preconference Sessions

Bootcamp-Style Instructional Courses: Monday September 30,
(and potentially Thursday, Friday October 3 & 4)

Partnership for Public Service Conference Center, 1100 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20005, USA

Call for Proposals, Preliminary Program, and Staying updated

Read the Call for Proposals for the
4th Annual ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium

The 2019 Competition is open for entries!

Mark your calendar: The Preliminary Program will appear here on Friday, July 19

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About the most recent Symposium

The 2018 Symposium took place on Wednesday & Thursday, November 7-8, in Arlington, Virginia, USA

2018 Program and Proceedings

Archive of all previous Symposia Programs and Proceedings

Our Mobile Website Test Process

Members of our Mobile Testing Sub-Committee
have created this publicly available test process for mobile websites:

Mobile Accessibility Testing Methodology (November 2018)

Mobile Accessibility Testing Methodology (Overview)

2018 Event Photos

2018 Keynote speech

Our 2018 Social Impact Award recipient, Lainey Feingold gave our keynote speech,
"A Lawyer Goes into an Accessibility Testing Conference… (not a joke!)"

ICT 2017 Social Imapact Award Winner, Lainey Feingold. With Andrew Nielson

With thanks to our friends at WEBABLE.tv for recording and captioning the session.
Watch on WEBABLE.tv

Note: Symposium introductory remarks by Chris Law for the first 21 minutes;
Jump ahead to 21:20 for the start of Lainey's speech.

Congratulations to our 2018 Awards Winners!

Best Student Paper

Brittani Washington, Towson University
Presented by Jennifer Chadwick, Siteimprove

ICT 2018 Best Student Paper Award Winner, Brittani Washington. With Jennifer Chadwick and Andrew Nielson

Student travel award kindly sponsored by

Competition Winner

Santina Croniser
Presented by Erin Kirchner-Lucas

ICT 2018 Competititon Winner, Santina Croniser. With Erin Kirchner-Lucas and Andrew Nielson

Competition award kindly sponsored by

Best Paper

Jared Smith, WebAIM
Presented by Karl Groves, Tenon

ICT 2018 Best Paper Award Winner, Jared Smith. With Karl Groves and Andrew Nielson

Best Paper award kindly sponsored by

Best Presentation

Drew (Howie) Bollinger, RedShelf
Presented by Laura Renfro, Renfro Consulting

ICT 2018 Best Paper Award Winner, Howie Bollinger. With Laura Renfro and Andrew Nielson