Schedule (2018)

Schedule is subject to change – check back for updates!

8:15 to 8:50 a.m. Doors open at 8:15. Check in at the registration desk in the lobby – have your picture ID ready. Continental breakfast and coffee/tea service will be set up outside the classroom.

All day (between sessions): Building Empathy through Immersion, Maliheh Aghanasiri, Rivka Barrett, Lisa Lowery, Fallon Parker, Grace Phang, and Bob Thomas — Liberty Mutual Insurance
location: Lobby

9:00 a.m. Opening remarks from Margy Bergel and Ann Chadwick-Dias (Fidelity) and Welcome! from John Rochford
location: Classroom

9:15 a.m. Keynote: User/Experts: No Substitute for Their Inefficient but Critically Valuable Engagement, Valerie Fletcher, Executive Director, Institute for Human Centered Design
location: Classroom

10:00 a.m Gold Sponsor Panel: Making MOOCs more accessible (Dr. Charles Severance (Dr. Chuck) – Panel Chair, Keith W. Marion, Kartik Sawhney, Aditi Shah, Ramakrishna (Ram) Raju)
location: Classroom

10:45 a.m. Break

11:15 a.m. Host Panel: Inclusive UX Design – the User’s perspective (Margy Bergel and Ann Chadwick-Dias, Fidelity – Moderator, Rachel Young, Parinay Malick, John Rochford)
location: Classroom

12:00 p.m. Lunch served.

1:00 p.m. Break-out sessions

  • Gold Sponsor Presentation:
    Creating Simple Web Text for People with Intellectual Disabilities and to Train Artificial     Intelligence     (John Rochford, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School)
    location: Classroom
  • Gold Sponsor Presentation:
    An overview of the Vision-Aid model  (Ram Raju, Syed Ali Rizvi, Keith Marion)
    location: Thinkspace 1
  • Accessible Video and the Faces it Impacts (Elisa Edelberg and Sofia Leiva, 3Play Media)
    location: Thinkspace 2
  • Accessibility for Content Strategists: How to make your content accessible to all users (Janell Sims, Harvard Law School)
    location: Collaboration Room

1:45 p.m. Break

2:00 p.m. Break-out sessions

  • Gold Sponsor Presentation
    Using Mobile to Minimize Mismatched Interactions     (Matt Crist, Cantina Consulting)
    location: Classroom
  • Why Usability Testing Should be Part of your Accessibility Testing Strategy (Peter McNally, User Experience Center, Bentley University)
    location: Thinkspace 1
  • Re-imagining Accessibility Guidelines, Part 3 (Jeanne Spellman, The Paciello Group, Luis Garcia, eBay)
    location: Thinkspace 2
  • Documents:  Diagnose, Decide, and Deliver (Becky Gibson, Director of Accessibility Open Access Technologies)
    location: Collaboration Room

2:45 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m. Break-out sessions

  • I am the LAAW! Introducing the Lean Accessibility Audit Workshop (Michael Ryan, Liberty Mutual)
    location: Classroom
  •  Accessibility Testing or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore WCAG (Luis Garcia, eBay)
    location: Thinkspace 1
  • Inclusive Design Thinking (Parinay Malik)
    location: Thinkspace 2

3:45 p.m. Closing remarks and clean-up