#a11ytoconf — Public Fediverse posts
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Save the date! #a11yTOConf returns to the Barbara Frum Atrium at CBC on Oct 22–23, 2026. Two days of learning + connection with accessibility pros worldwide, with a renewed focus on technical talks and actionable takeaways. More soon!
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If you saw my tees at #a11yTOConf and wondered where you could squander money on them…
The POURP shirt:
https://aardrian.threadless.com/designs/pourpn-atkinson-hyperlegible-white-text/mens/t-shirt/classicThe W*C*A*G shirt (brown version):
https://aardrian.threadless.com/designs/w-c-a-g/mens/t-shirt/classic -
@eric Eric's talk was peppered with great quotations and references to influences.
I've experienced burnout and one of the quotes that particularly struck home with me was from Dr. Amelia Nagoski, co-author of Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle:
"This is a larger systemic issue that has to be addressed, which is why the cure for burnout is not self care — can never be self care. The cure for burnout has to be all of us caring for each other."
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Eric Bailey @eric closed out the day with a powerful talk that combined personal narrative, systemic warnings, and thoughtful analysis with expressions of community care and hope.
An interesting companion piece to Hitomi Yokata's talk this morning. Drawing on the discourse of harm reduction, he adapted the principles to trauma-informed design.
Going to be thinking about this one for a long time.
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In his talk, "Tiny CSS, Big Impact," Mike Mai @mikemai2awesome showcased minimal CSS code snippets that leverage native browser behaviours and default base styles to make big impacts on accessibility.
Very cool.
I am once again reminded that my CSS skills have not kept up with the state of browser defaults and latest CSS properties! Looking forward to incorporating a few of these snippets in my own code.
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Adrian Roselli @aardrian was "Talkin' Tables" at #a11yTOConf today. From simple to complex tables, sticky headers , and sortable columns, he (tried!) to cover it all!
His site has links to tons of detailed table code snippets and recommendations:
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Very cool demo by Quintin Balsdon demonstrating "Ally Keys: A hardware tool for Mobile Keyboard Accessibility"
By plugging in a dongle, and a bit of configuration, you can use the ally-keys website to help you enter keyboard, gesture, and switch commands to a connected iPhone or wherever.
It's like having an external hardware mobile keyboard, "but here's the twist: It has no keys!"
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During her talk, "Trauma-Informed Design Research: Creating Safety in User Engagements on Sensitive Topics" on Day 2 of the #a11yTOConf , Hitomi Yokota quoted from Resmaa Menakem:
"Trauma decontextualized in a person looks like personality.
Trauma decontextualized in a family system looks like a family trait.
Trauma decontextualized in a people looks like a culture."
https://conf.a11yto.com/playlist#Trauma-Informed-Design-Research
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It was both fun and enlightening to watch Homer Gaines @homer do a live code demo fixing up a chat bot to close out Day 1 of #a11yTOConf 2025.
The Anatomy of an Accessible Chat Interface
This conference always finds an interesting balance between technical, practical, and theoretical.
https://conf.a11yto.com/playlist#The-Anatomy-of-an-Accessible-Chat-Interface
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Morgan Kestner walked through "How to build an A11y support system that works" by providing a clear series of examples from her experience at Indeed. I liked how she separated various components and workflows into discrete actionable or digestible chunks.
She's sharing her Accessibility Program Resources on GitHub. 👍
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@shepazu made an interesting distinction, calling ParaCharts an "underlay", setting it in opposition to an "overlay".
Where an overlay "tries to make structured data from flawed UI", an underlay by contrast "provides accessible UI from structured data".
Very impressed not only by the potential of this software, but also by the care and attention to privacy and ethics in its implementation of LLMs.
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Super interesting presentation by Doug Schepers @shepazu on Inclusive Data Visualization with AI Descriptions.
Explained many of the myriad challenges to making charts accessible. And then walked through a fascinating demo of ParaCharts [1].
Looking forward to exploring Chartability [2] another resource from their team.
[1] https://fizz.studio/paracharts/
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“Pastry charts — you know, donut and pie charts.”
— Doug Schepers (@shepazu) at #a11yTO / #a11yTOConf -
Michelle A. Williams explains the "Reality: Recruiting is Involved."
Slide contents:
• Disabled participants are not a monolith
- Participants should have related user characteristics• There is no "Disability Lane"
- Finding participants is not easy• Relationship building has lopsided payoff
- Want to avoid "career participants"... I've definitely been guilty of underestimating recruitment tasks!
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Kicking off #a11yTOConf / #a11yTO day one with an impressive television display in the CBC atrium.
This year’s host is the puppet!
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Looking forward to Day 1 of A11yTO Conference 2025 starting in half an hour.
Several speakers are new to me, and I always find the sessions at this single-track two-day conference in my home town of Toronto to be carefully curated and enlightening.
Bring it on!
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hi i am speaking at @a11yto this year.
now you know.
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Hello, world! We are here... better late than never!
Don't forget that #a11yTOConf is coming soon! Full details are up on the site conf.a11yto.com
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"There’s no definitive guideline for applying WCAG to Mobile apps. That’s why it’s important to interpret WCAG in a way that best serves your users.” - Rachael Yomtoob #a11yTOConf
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Greetings from #a11yTOConf! Stop by to check out our incredible new AI-powered assistant trained on Deque University.
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Assistiv Labs is sponsoring #a11yTOConf for the 3rd year in a row because it’s one of the friendliest, most informative conferences we’ve ever attended and it’s focused on the topic of #accessibility, which is near and dear to our hearts!
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For the 2nd year in a row, Assistiv Labs is giving away 2 tickets to the best, little tech conference around, #a11yTOConf! Enter by September 18 for your chance to win!
Enter to win at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGc0-lPxCZ2Cgj0VQQfry-yGwJ8Gm8MnJjBLOhfOPr2Y8lDg/viewform
#a11yTOConf focuses on accessibility & inclusive design. The conference happens every October in downtown Toronto. This year, it will be on October 3 & 4 and many of us from Assistiv Labs will be in attendance.
Learn more about the conference at https://conf.a11yto.com
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The Call for Speakers for #A11yTOConf (October 3rd and 4th) is now open. You have until May 5th to submit your proposal. https://conf.a11yto.com #Accessibility #CallForSpeakers #CallForPapers
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Updated my post “What Does X% of Issues Mean?” with notes from @SteveFaulkner’s #a11yTOConf talk:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/07/what-does-x-of-issues-mean.html#Update01He noted that the removal of 4.1.1 likely reduces claims back to the ~30% we expect from auto-test results against WCAG.
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Late #a11yTOConf dinner with host @mak_en, Junko (cannot find on Masto), @codingchaos, and me.
Tasty food (Don Don Izakaya), great event, lovely people. Will repeat.
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Really loved learning about Benchmarking Screen Reader Accessibility in User Research from Elana Chapman of Fable here at #a11yTO
Looking forward to checking out the freely available Accessible Usability Scale (AUS) she presented.
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Was there last year, hope to be there this year!
Last year I had the pleasure of seeing my friends @davidofyork & @JonnyJames, @aardrian strut their stuff live, who will Billy and the gang wow attendees with in 2023 🤔“We’re happy to announce that #a11yTO is once again taking over downtown Toronto October 18-21 for a full week of accessibility events!
Join us this October for #a11yTOConf on Oct 19 and 20, and #a11yTOGaming on October 21!
More info: http://a11yTO.com” -
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RT @a11yTO
Big news! #a11yWeekTO is going virtual!That's right, our #a11yTOConf and #a11yTOGaming events are going online October 21-24.
The call for presentations is open now. Got an idea for a talk? Submit it today.
More info at http://a11yto.com
#a11yTO #a11y
https://twitter.com/a11yTO/status/1285941411439837187 -
Oh, this again?
https://twitter.com/a11yTO/status/1202601158348595200
Yeah, I will be there. And yeah, I will probably sponsor it again (at the lowest level because I am but one man).
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RT @a11yTO
#a11yWeekTO returns October 19-24, 2020!#a11yIRL - Wednesday Oct. 21st
#a11yTOConf - Oct. 22nd and 23rd
#a11yTOGaming - Saturday Oct. 24th.Save the date! More events and ticket info will be announced in the new year.
https://twitter.com/a11yTO/status/1202601158348595200 -
Updated my #a11yTOConf #a11yWeekTO #a11yTOGaming #a11yIRL wrap-up (https://adrianroselli.com/2019/10/a11yweekto-recap.html#Related) to link to…
1. @[email protected]’s ace post: https://www.lflegal.com/2019/10/a11yto/
2. @[email protected]’s notes: https://madebyhector.github.io/a11yTOConf2020/
3. More slide links.
If you have have an addition / removal, lemme know.
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I have a recap from #a11yTOConf #a11yIRL #a11yTOGaming that is mostly photos and only a handful of links to slides:
https://adrianroselli.com/2019/10/a11yweekto-recap.html
But if, like me, you block Twitter on web pages all the images are there. Load over wifi. -
I made a recap post of #a11yWeekTO #a11yIRL #a11yTOConf #a11yTOGaming: https://adrianroselli.com/2019/10/a11yweekto-recap.html
It has a few links to slides (more needed), is mostly my tweets, and has bounded Twitter searches for the hashtags so you can get a broader view than just mine.
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I will be at all of them (and co-sponsoring the big one) and hope you will too.
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RT @[email protected]
Your #a11yWeekTO Update:
#A11YIRL: One week away!
#a11yWeekTOKaraoke: Almost sold out!
#a11yTOConf: Few tickets remain!!
#a11yWeekTOTweetup: SOLD OUT
#a11yTOGaming: $20 to learn about / play video games?! C'mon!!Get your tickets today!
More info: http://a11yTO.com
https://twitter.com/thebillygregory/status/1184431058848235520 -
Discount!
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RT @[email protected]
We have a special code for our #AXSChat friends today!Use the promo code "axschat" or the link in this tweet to save $50 on #a11yTOConf and #a11yIRL tickets for the next 24 hours!
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/a11yto-conference-2019-tickets-59185809349?discount=axschat
#a11yWeekTO
https://twitter.com/a11yTO/status/1181659296737693697 -
/me turns on snark detector.
https://twitter.com/paciellogroup/status/1181632420585623554
None detected, just lots of hashtags.
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RT @[email protected]
In just under an hour @thebillygregory, our Director of Training and co-organizer of @a11yTO, will be on @AXSChat.Now for all the hashtags: #AXSChat #a11yWeekTO #a11yTOConf #a11yIRL #a11yTOGaming
https://twitter.com/paciellogroup/status/1181632420585623554 -
BTW, #DevOpsDaysBUF folks who are interested in the accessibility things I referenced in my Ignite talk, lots of great accessibility talks next month in TO:
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RT @[email protected]
Dozens of speakers, four days, three events!Check out #a11yWeekTO at http://a11yTO.com.
Get your tickets here:
#a11yIRL, October 23rd: http://ow.ly/s2mX50w8H9I
#a11yTOConf, Oct 24-25: http://ow.ly/WM3R50w8H9C
#a11yTOGaming, October 26th: http://ow.ly/SApa5…
https://twitter.com/a11yTO/status/1172539198596927495 -
Date change for just the built environment event.
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RT @[email protected]
We’re shaking things up a bit: #a11yIRL has been moved to midweek, right before #a11yTOConf.Stay tuned for the exciting SECRET REASON why and in the meanwhile, get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/a11yirl-accessibility-in-real-life-tickets-61654329760
Stay tuned for more announcements!
https://twitter.com/a11yTO/status/1148599292581597186