CSUN 2016

This year marks my first time at CSUN in San Diego. It’s also my first time in the United State of America. Better yet, it is the first time I travel outside Europe! More importantly though, it will give me the chance to learn a whole lot, meet lots of new people and finally shake hands with—or give hugs to—people I have been talking to for quite a while as part of my work for the W3C. So you better watch out if you’re in the ARIA Working Group ;)

Because there is so much to do at CSUN, it will be hard to see everything and do everything that interests me. To keep me from losing my mind, I’ve compiled a list with all the workshops and talks I would like to attend.

Meet with people, explore the conference and city, probably do some ARIA work, and have a good time.

Accessible User Experience Design Studio (Full Day Workshop) by Sarah Horton, David Sloan, and Henny Swan

1. 8:00 AM – Keynote
2. 9:00 AM
   • Using Visual ARIA to Physically See and Learn How ARIA Works by Bryan Garaventa and Mike Schutte
   • Accessible Alternatives for a Simulation-based Science Assessment Task by Eric Hansen, Mark Hakkinen, Jason White, Carlos Cavalie, and Teresa King
3. 10:00 AM
   • Accessibility Testing Automation – Leveraging the manual testing effort by Dylan Barrell
   • 2016 CSUN Digital Accessibility Legal Update by Lainey Feingold and Linda Dardarian
4. 11:00 AM – Accessibility of Web News Sites: What a Difference a Page Makes by Gary Moulton
5. 1:20 PM
   • Open Source and Accessibility by Dylan Barrell, Wendy Chisholm, Jesse Beach, Shadi Abou-Zahra, and Alice Boxhall
   • Representing Accessibility in ‘Personas’ by Rebecca Nancarrow
6. 2:20 PM – Creating an Accessibility Specialist Training Program for your Organization by Suzanne Taylor, Mia Lipner, and Kathy Wahlbin
7. 3:20 PM – Why We Need to Rethink the Meaning of Accessibility by Fredrik Schill and Jens Halvarsson
8. 4:20 PM – The BBC, a Public Service Accessibility Story; Past, Present and Future. by Gareth Ford Williams

1. 8:00 AM – Building the best experience: The value of inclusive user testing by JoAnna Hunt, Aaron Page, Marlene Zentz, and Stuart Lamour
2. 9:00 AM
   • bbc-a11y – automated accessibility tests by Emma Pratt Richens
   • Accessibility Stories from an Agile World at Workday by Beth Bemis, Stephanie Ahart, and Olga Sokolova
3. 10:00 AM – Accessibility for User Experience Designers by Matthew Isner and Dale Cruse
4. 11:00 AM – Designing for People by Sarah Horton and David Sloan
5. 1:20 PM
   • Is it A Link Or A Button? The Ultimate Showdown by Birkir Gunnarsson and CB Averitt
   • Extreme Accessibility: A revolution in quality accessible user experience by Karl Groves
6. 2:20 PM – An Introduction to Accessibility Testing for Mobile Apps by Jeffrey Singleton
7. 3:20 PM
   • Improving Dyslexia with Newer Fonts & Technological Apps by Jill Piner and Dr. Dilip J. Karnik
   • Accessible SVG Charts Using ARIA by Ted Gies and Øystein Moseng
8. 4:20 PM
   • Accessibility Testing Tools for Developers by Gerard Cohen
   • Inclusive Design—Basics Bootcamp by Dennis Lembrée

1. 8:00 AM
   • Towards Common Test Rules for Evaluating Conformance to WCAG 2 by Shadi Abou-Zahra, Richard Schwerdtfeger, Jon Gunderson, Dylan Barrell, and Katie Haritos-Shea
   • Multimedia Accessibility Techniques Applied to Real Examples by Thomas Logan
2. 9:00 AM
   • Common Accessibility Testing Mistakes by Mike Schutte and Edward Miller
   • Video Accessibility: teaching closed captioning to students by Giovanni Galvez
3. 10:00 AM
   • WHY WCAG? Whose Guideline is it, Anyway? with The Viking and The Lumberjack by Billy Gregory and Karl Groves
   • Breaking silos – all bad things must come to an end by Henny Swan and Ian Pouncey
4. 11:00 AM – An inclusive design approach changes your perspective by Jess Mitchell
5. 1:20 PM – Addressing EPUB3 Accessibility from Creation to Deployment by Rick Johnson, Nick Brown, Amy Salmon, Rick Bowes, and Caesar Eghtesadi
6. 2:20 PM – Embracing Plain Language for Better Accessibility by Ashley Bischoff
7. 3:20 PM
   • Creating Accessibility Reports Designers & Developers Will Love by Paul and Jackie Adam
   • Inclusive Design—Beyond the Basics by Dennis Lembrée
8. 4:20 PM – Automated Testing Tool Showdown by Luis Garcia and Steve Faulkner