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Virtual tickets are back for #a11yTOConf 2026!
We know travel isn't always possible, so we're excited to once again offer a virtual conference experience—thanks to our Diamond Sponsor, CBC.
Virtual tickets are on sale now.
Already have an in-person ticket? Email [email protected] and we'll help you switch to virtual.
Learn more: conf.a11yto.com
#a11y #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #WebAccessibility #TechConference
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Virtual tickets are back for #a11yTOConf 2026!
We know travel isn't always possible, so we're excited to once again offer a virtual conference experience—thanks to our Diamond Sponsor, CBC.
Virtual tickets are on sale now.
Already have an in-person ticket? Email [email protected] and we'll help you switch to virtual.
Learn more: conf.a11yto.com
#a11y #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #WebAccessibility #TechConference
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Many of you have reached out, and we heard you. Due to overwhelming interest, we're extending our Call For Speakers for this year's #A11yTOConf deadline to Sunday, June 14th at midnight.
Travel and accommodation are on us-submit your talk and join us on October 22+23rd in Toronto this October. -
#a11yTOConf is set to return to the Barbara Frum Atrium at CBC on October 22 & 23, 2026.
The call for speakers is open! Have a great idea for a talk? You can submit until June 4.
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In case you missed it, the #a11yTO Conf Call for Speakers is Open.
Deadline for proposals: June 5
Conference dates: Oct 22-23
The #a11yTO Conf is a wonderful single-track conference in Toronto focused on digital accessibility. I try to attend every year and am never disappointed. Highly recommended.
This year, the focus is on "technical talks with clear, actionable takeaways."
Also, early bird pricing for tickets is available until July 31.
https://conf.a11yto.com/ -
In case you missed it, the #a11yTO Conf Call for Speakers is Open.
Deadline for proposals: June 5
Conference dates: Oct 22-23
The #a11yTO Conf is a wonderful single-track conference in Toronto focused on digital accessibility. I try to attend every year and am never disappointed. Highly recommended.
This year, the focus is on "technical talks with clear, actionable takeaways."
Also, early bird pricing for tickets is available until July 31.
https://conf.a11yto.com/ -
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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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 -
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 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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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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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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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:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/10/talkin-tables-at-a11yto-conf.html -
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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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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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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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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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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@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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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 -
“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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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.