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4th Annual ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium:
4th Annual ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium:
Tuesday, October 1 & Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Monday, September 30 for Preconference Sessions
Partnership for Public Service Conference Center, 1100 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20005, USA
Expect the Call for Proposals in early March
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Announcing the ICT Accessibility Testing Spring Bootcamps!
(An extension event of the Annual ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium)
Three Bootcamp-Style Courses from top accessibility testing experts:
Accessibility Testing 101
(2 Days, Monday-Tuesday March 11-12, 2019)
Karl Groves delivers a intensive training program to become a web accessibility tester
Accessibility Testing 201
(1 Day, Monday, March 11, 2019)
Gian Wild extends the popular workshop from the symposium to a full day. Take your knowledge to the next level, with hands-on training of web testing techniques across the board.
Mobile Website Accessibility Testing
(1 Day, Tuesday, March 12, 2019)
The ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium Committee has created a publicly available mobile website test process. This bootcamp, headed up our mobile sub-committee chair, Gian Wild, will take you through the test process with hands-on exercises, and training to make you a mobile website tester by the end of the day.
Read More about the Spring Bootcamps...
The 3rd Annual ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium: Mobile Testing, 508 Revision, and Beyond
PEER REVIEWED · PUBLISHED · OPEN · INTERACTIVE · ORIGINAL
The 2018 Symposium took place on Wednesday & Thursday, November 7-8, in Arlington, Virginia, USA
The Proceedings of the 2018 Symposium are Available
Archive of all three 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)
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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!)"
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.
The Digital Accessibility Legal Summit 2019
Working with legal issues around digital accessibility?
Want to bolster your accessibility program to be better placed to respond to legal inquiries?
Join Lainey and other notable speakers at the inaugural
Digital Accessibility Legal Summit in Anaheim, March 11-12, 2019
Congratulations to our 2018 Awards Winners!
Best Student Paper
Brittani Washington, Towson University
Presented by Jennifer Chadwick, Siteimprove
Student travel award kindly sponsored by
Competition Winner
Santina Croniser
Presented by Erin Kirchner-Lucas
Competition award kindly sponsored by
Best Paper
Jared Smith, WebAIM
Presented by Karl Groves, Tenon
Best Paper award kindly sponsored by
Best Presentation
Drew (Howie) Bollinger, RedShelf
Presented by Laura Renfro, Renfro Consulting
Best Paper award kindly sponsored by
Previous events: Archive Programs and Proceedings
What's been presented before?
Find the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Archives on the Programs Page
With support from the 2018 ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium Committee, The 2018 Accessibility Testing Symposium is organized by Accessibility Track
Image credits:
Photos on this page courtesy of Accessibility Track Consulting, LLC. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).