Schedule
Join us online! Each session includes a pre-recorded presentation with live chat-based Q&A.
Attendees will have on-demand access through Tuesday, August 11, 2026, via this website. DigiCol paid members will have long-term access through the Professional Development Library.
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Your time zone: (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
| Track | Name | Speakers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM - 9:55 AM (CDT) | |||
| Keynote | Welcome and keynote | Reginé Gilbert — New York University | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM (CDT) | |||
| Designing for everyone: Foundations of accessible design and content | Creating accessible forms | Jeremy Gonzales — Siteimprove | |
| Digital accessibility tools and specialized topics | From LaTeX and Pandoc to accessible documents | Elizabeth J Pyatt — Penn State | |
| Strategy, policy and governance | Beyond the dashboard: What automated accessibility misses in higher education | Chris Smith, Ed.D. — North Carolina Central University Jennifer Goubeaud — RaLytics | |
| 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM (CDT) | |||
| Break | Visit sponsor booths | ||
| 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM (CDT) | |||
| Designing for everyone: Foundations of accessible design and content | New to accessibility testing? A straightforward review of accessibility testing basics | Penny Kronz — DubBot | |
| Digital accessibility tools and specialized topics | From description key to practice: Advancing audio description in higher education | Aimee Brown-Shadduck — Penn State University Cindy Camp — The Described and Captioned Media Program | |
| Strategy, policy and governance | Not as hard as I thought: A framework for building a culture of accessibility | Dr. Lee Ann Dickerson — Penn State University Jen Wagner — Penn State University | |
| 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM (CDT) | |||
| Poster | Using chatbots to increase student engagement: Exploring the use of AI as an accessibility tool | Heather Cowherd — University of Kentucky | |
| Poster | Recurring accessibility failures in data storytelling — and how to fix them | Angel Morgan — Arizona State University | |
| Poster | VPAT Evaluator: Clear and easy-to-read accessibility reports | Rebecca McNulty — University of Central Florida | |
| Poster | The WebAIM Million: An annual web accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 homepages | Jared Smith — Utah State University | |
| Poster | The moment you can't unsee it | AmyJune Hineline — Linux Foundation | |
| 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM (CDT) | |||
| Designing for everyone: Foundations of accessible design and content | 10 ways to offer an accessible experience to your campus community | Christian Batarseh — Concept3D Jill Bobrick — Concept3D | |
| Digital accessibility tools and specialized topics | From “accessible enough” to actually accessible: Email in higher ed | Kelsey Smith — Purdue University | |
| Strategy, policy and governance | Managing expectations for accessibility remediation | Darin Givens — Georgia Tech | |
| 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM (CDT) | |||
| Break | Gentle guided movement and meditation | Eve Buckley | |
| 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM (CDT) | |||
| Designing for everyone: Foundations of accessible design and content | Looks good. Sounds broken. | Firat Ikiler — Evolving Web | |
| Digital accessibility tools and specialized topics | A practical guide to accessible math | Nicholas McNab — Harvard University John Williams — Harvard University | |
| Strategy, policy and governance | Audio description: The visual made verbal | Joel Snyder — Audio Describe | |
| 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM (CDT) | |||
| Digital accessibility tools and specialized topics | Shifting left with Cypress: End-to-end accessibility tests | Carly Gerard — Western Washington University | |
| Strategy, policy and governance | The future of document accessibility starts here | Mac Clemmens — CivicPlus Shawn Jordison — The Accessibility Guy | |
| Strategy, policy and governance | Just say no … to PDFs | Pablo Moore — Purdue University Kerri Richardson — Purdue University | |
| 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM (CDT) | |||
| Closing remarks | |||