It’s been a while since I posted about the popular CSUN Assistive Technology Conference in southern California. Here are a few great reviews from this year’s event. (Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to attend for the last few years.)
The 34th CSUN Assistive Technology Conference has come and gone (held March 11-15, 2019). It was another terrific event, and with approximately 5000 attendees! The big difference in this year’s event was the new location—the lovely Anaheim Marriott hotel outside of Los Angeles, California. The official Twitter hashtag is #CSUNATC19. Next year’s event is planned for the same venue next March 9 to March 13, 2020.
Sandy Plotin (Managing Director, Center on Disabilities, CSUN) and Jennison Asuncion (Digital Accessibility Leader!) hosted the keynote event where Johanna Lucht, a Deaf Engineer at NASA, was honored. In addition, Sean Keegan, Director of California Community Colleges Accessibility Center, was announced this year’s Strache Leadership Award recipient.
Below are a great list of session resources, a few announcements made, photos, and some fun tweets! Lastly, links to past CSUN events are listed.
Web accessibility problem areas: placeholder as label, focus management, hijacked scrolling, links without underlines. via @HansHillen Yup! #CSUNATC18#a11y#webdesign
.@jessehausler and I are ready to present about drag-and-drop in 6 minutes, Cortez Hill AB. Don’t let our facial expressions dissuade you, it’ll be a fun talk! #CSUNATC18pic.twitter.com/NTl4tbfJgi
The 33rd annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference will be held March 19-23, 2018 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego, California. (It’s reportedly the last year in San Diego as the conference will move back to the LA area in 2019.) The keynote speaker is Daniel Goldstein, an attorney who has been involved in the field of disability rights for almost 35 years. If you can’t make it there, catch the keynote live stream on YouTube (5:30 PM PST Tuesday, March 20).
Here are session schedules by companies well-known in the digital accessibility industry:
Lainey Feingold (@LFLegal) will be presenting her very popular Digital Accessibility Legal Update a few times, in large rooms, so everyone can attend, yay.
By IBM Va11yS, or Verified Accessibility Samples, is a repository of live working code samples that designers and developers can easily access to test with different assistive technologies and tools.
OATMEAL – An accessibility testing methodology for the web, by eBay. Stands for Open Accessibility Testing Methods for Experts And Layfolk—nice!
Mind Your Lang by Adrian Roselli from role=drinks event.
Photos
Terry Thompson speaking on audio description at CSUN17Denis Boudreau fills the Deque Suite at CSUN17Karaoke at CSUN17, Makoto and Matt lead C-S-U-N (to the tune of YMCA)
