Digital Accessibility

Part 1: Web Accessibility Basics – Manual Testing: Color Contrast, Keyboard Access, and Reflow
2025-10-01 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Webinar
This webinar will cover the basics of manual testing techniques that form the foundation of a web accessibility evaluation. We will demonstrate how to verify color contrast ratios using tools like WAVE and axe to ensure readability for all users, including those with low vision or color blindness.
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WordPress Accessibility Day 2025
2025-10-15 - 2025-10-16
WordPress Accessibility Day is a 24-hour global event dedicated to promoting and learning website accessibility best practices for WordPress websites.
Suggested Sessions
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October 15, 2025

Audio Accessibility in WordPress
1:00 PM America/Los_Angeles
Why Accessibility Matters: From A Blind/Visually Impaired Perspective
3:00 PM America/Los_Angeles
Demystifying Screen Readers: Your Guided Intro to Manual Accessibility Testing for WordPress Sites
7:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

October 16, 2025

Accessibility Isn’t Extra Work. It’s Risk Management.
1:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
The Art of Accessibility: Making Documents Delightfully Inclusive
2:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
A “Game”-Changing Approach to Accessibility Education
4:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Build for Everyone or Build for No One
7:00 AM America/Los_Angelest

Basics of Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations – Remediation and Testing
2025-10-15 10:00 - 11:00
This webinar will cover the basics of structuring PowerPoint documents for accessibility, including how to effectively add alternate text to images, especially those with multiple parts like flowcharts, and best practices for making your PowerPoint files accessible.
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Making AI Work for All: Enhancing Accessibility for Students in Higher Education
2025-10-15 11:00 - 12:00
As higher education institutions prepare for accessibility compliance as required by the Department of Justice’s rule updated regulations for Title II of the ADA, higher education professionals face a critical opportunity—and responsibility—to ensure the accessibility of learning materials and strategies for all learners.
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WSU WordPress Accessibility Day | October 16, 2025
2025-10-16 09:30 - 15:45
Join Web Communication for an accessibility focused Open Lab and three trainings about digital accessibility, regulations and policies, and web accessibility training.
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Part 2: Web Accessibility Basics – Manual Screen Reader Testing
2025-10-29 10:00 - 11:00
This webinar will focus on the desktop screen reader testing with JAWS and NVDA on Windows 11 with Chrome, demonstrating how to navigate web pages using common commands like Say All, testing with the Tab key, and interacting with links, buttons, carousels, and other interactive content.
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Part 3: Web Accessibility Basics – Manual Mobile Testing
2025-11-12 10:00 - 11:00
In the final part of our series, we will shift focus to mobile testing, addressing the unique challenges of touch-based interfaces and mobile screen readers. We will demonstrate how to enable and use VoiceOver, and TalkBack on Android, covering essential gestures, commands, and navigation patterns specific to mobile devices. Participants will learn to test mobile-specific accessibility features including touch targets (ensuring they meet minimum size requirements), gesture-based navigation, and the crucial but often overlooked external keyboard support for users who cannot use touchscreens. We’ll explore how to verify that mobile web content properly reflows, that interactive elements like carousels and dialogues work with assistive technology, and that all functionality remains accessible regardless of device orientation. Join Michael Parker and Marisa Church as they demonstrate comprehensive mobile accessibility testing techniques using VoiceOver and TalkBack.

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Important: This training is not available for later viewing

Title II Video Accessibility Compliance 101: What You Need to Know
2025-11-12 11:00 - 11:30
In this 30-minute session, we will unpack the core components of the ruling and what it means for video accessibility. We’ll translate the legal language into clear, actionable guidance so you will have clarity on what’s required.
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This training is part of 3PlayMedia’s Countdown to ADA Title II Compliance’ series, which addresses video accessibility requirements.

In Their Own Words: How Students Use AI to Make Learning More Accessible
2025-11-13 11:00 - 12:00
Join us for a powerful and practical panel discussion featuring college students who are using AI tools to overcome barriers and enhance their own access to course materials as well as enhancing access for their peers. This webinar invites faculty, librarians, instructional designers, and learning support staff to hear directly from students about the real-world ways they’re leveraging generative AI and other emerging technologies to navigate learning challenges, adapt inaccessible content, and advocate for others by developing AI tools that increase accessibility.
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Creating Accessible Documents – The Basics (Part 1)
2025-11-19 10:00 - 11:00
This online training will teach you how to make your materials usable by everyone. Here are the main things you will learn about creating accessible documents:

Visual Presentation: Learn about font size and style, color contrast, and using color to convey meaning.
Learn how built-in features provide accessible document navigation, and best practices for hyperlink formatting.
Learn about alt-text and why it is needed.
Learn about built-in accessibility checker features and additional manual checking considerations.

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How Colleges Can Comply With Web-Accessibility Laws
2025-11-19 11:00 - 12:00
This webinar examines how institutions are:

Auditing digital content and identifying high-priority areas for remediation.
Managing third-party vendor compliance effectively.
Building sustainable accessibility-training programs.

Our discussion will draw on expert insights to help your institution develop practical approaches for meeting these critical requirements.
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Captions, subtitles or transcripts
2025-11-21 04:30 - 05:00
In this webinar from Funka Foundation, you will learn more about the tools and requirements that can help you solve problems in an efficient way.
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Basic Internet Browsing with JAWS
2025-12-03 10:00 - 11:00
Are you interested in gaining a further understanding of web surfing with JAWS? Let’s explore methods and strategies to enhance your browsing experience. We covered web browsing basics in a previous webinar. Now, we’ll dive deeper. Join Ian Ramos and Marisa Church from Access Ingenuity to discuss webpage structure and how this can help the JAWS user better understand how to navigate by headings, forms, buttons, and regions to get the job done quickly.
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Important: This training is not available for later viewing

Meets Easy Accessibility
2025-12-10 08:00 - 11:00
To make accessible design and development easier we need good tools, resources and stories. In the upcoming Meets we have 3 absolute experts sharing their stories, tools, tips, and practices, to help you!
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Creating Accessible Emails with Microsoft Outlook and Mailchimp – Signatures, Layout, Lists, Styles, and Structure
2025-12-10 10:00 - 11:00
In this webinar, we will explore the critical elements of creating accessible email communications in both Microsoft Outlook and Mailchimp. We will demonstrate how to properly structure emails using semantic headings, accessible lists, and logical reading order to ensure your messages are navigable for all users. Participants will learn to evaluate and remediate common accessibility barriers in email signatures, including adding meaningful alt text to signature images, avoiding images of text for contact information, and ensuring proper color contrast ratios. We will address practical challenges like managing email threads containing inaccessible content, providing feedback to senders about accessibility issues, and establishing best practices for font selection, color usage, and layout design. Moving into Mailchimp, we will dive into the platform’s accessibility features and tools, demonstrating how to create inclusive email campaigns that maintain accessibility at scale, from template selection through testing and deployment. This hands-on session will equip you with immediately applicable techniques for both daily email correspondence and large-scale email marketing initiatives. Join Rachel Reeves and Michael Vitagliano as they demonstrate essential techniques for creating accessible emails in Outlook and Mailchimp that reach and engage all users.
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Important: This training is not available for later viewing

Creating Accessible Digital Content and Presentations (Part 2)
2025-12-10 10:00 - 11:00
This webinar builds on the information provided in Creating Accessible Documents – The Basics (November 19, 2025). It will present principles for creating accessible digital content in presentations. It will also cover the best practices for using video and audio in presentations.
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Designing Accessible Learning with AI Inside and Outside the LMS
2025-12-11 11:00 - 12:00
This webinar will explore how instructional designers, faculty, and course builders can harness AI—both embedded within learning management systems (LMS) and through external AI tools—to create inclusive, equitable, and accessible learning experiences for all students.
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2025 U.S. Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold
2025-12-11 11:00 - 12:00
3Play’s annual digital accessibility legal update with Lainey Feingold will offer an up-to-date overview of what is happening in the digital accessibility legal space in the United States as 2025 draws to a close.
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Creating Accessible Online Content (Social Media)
2026-01-07 10:00 - 11:00
We will share tips for making social media posts accessible to everyone. We will also talk about the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
More than 70% of Americans use social media to get news and information, stay connected with friends, or for fun. This webinar will present best practices for creating accessible content for social media posts, images, and videos.
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Introduction to the Screen Reader Ropes Course
2026-01-08 08:00 - 09:00
Demystifying Screen Reader Use for Manual Testing: Deneb Pulsipher and Kosi Asabere
Accessibility professionals all know screen reader testing is important, but the barrier to entry is fairly high: before you can test with a screen reader, you have to know how to use a screen reader. Wrapping your mind around all those keystrokes and what they do can be difficult. In this webinar we’ll break it down for you, and show you how to use the free screen reader of your choice to go through our Screen Reader Ropes Course, which, by the way, you should return to again and again to practice.
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Web Accessibility Open Lab January 2026 | WSU Web Communication
2026-01-15 09:00 - 10:30
A once-a-month Open Lab focusing on Web Accessibility by WSU Web Communication. All are welcome to attend.
Bring your web accessibility questions, problems, or glitches, and share what you’ve been working on. Feel free to listen in.
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Building Better Documents - Usable to All
2026-01-15 11:00 - 12:30
This session walks through how to design, test, and remediate digital documents so they’re usable with assistive technology and aligned with the new ADA Title II technical standard, WCAG 2.1 AA. We’ll cover accessibility basics in Word, PowerPoint, and Canva (headings, styles, color contrast, typography, alt text, links, tables, reading order), how to export and repair tagged PDFs in Acrobat, and what to do about scanned documents and forms. We’ll end by unpacking the WCAG 2.1 AA compliance deadlines, key exceptions, and what they really mean for your existing files so you know exactly where to start cleaning up your digital document library.
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Designing Accessible PowerPoint Presentations
2026-01-21 07:00 - 08:00
This session explores key accessibility practices such as reading order, alternative text, and slide structure to ensure every person can engage with your visual content. Participants will learn to identify accessibility tools in Microsoft PowerPoint and how to use them.
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Web Accessibility Open Lab February 2026 | WSU Web Communication
2026-02-12 09:30 - 11:00

Making Digital Documents Accessible: Practical Steps for Inclusive Design
2026-02-17 08:00 - 09:00
Samantha Merrett will walk you through how to create digital documents that are truly accessible, sharing practical tips and hands-on guidance you can use right away. You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of how to meet global accessibility requirements while making your documents easier for everyone to read, navigate, and use.
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Accelerating Digital Accessibility | axe-con 2026
2026-02-24 06:00 - 2026-02-25 12:00
Join fellow developers, designers, business users, and accessibility professionals of all experience levels as we rally to advance digital accessibility programs everywhere. You will learn the latest trends in tech, global compliance, and more as we focus on building, testing, and delivering accessible digital experiences.
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Recommended Sessions
Agenda
Tuesday, February 24

More Practical Strategies for Accessible Design (Part Two) Tuesday, February 24 at 10:00 am

Part 1: Practical Strategies for Accessible Design from axe-con 2025

Proving Progress: The Metrics Behind Sustainable Accessibility Tuesday, February 24 at 11:00 am
Igniting the Spark: Building Accessibility Influence From the Bottom Up Tuesday, February 24 at 11:00 am
The Myth of Neutral Design: How Accessibility Gets Lost in Objective Systems Tuesday, February 24 at 12:00 pm
Shifting left: Building an Ecosystem to Scale Accessibility Tuesday, February 24 at 12:00 pm
The Accessible Design Specialists Playbook Tuesday, February 24 at 12:00 pm

Wednesday, February 25

How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility Wednesday, February 25 at 6:00 am
Building a Stronger, More Innovative Accessibility Community Wednesday, February 25 at 7:00 am
Better Together: UX and Accessibility in Action Wednesday, February 25 at 9:00 am
ADA Title II: Panel Discussion Wednesday, February 25 at 10:00 am
The Accessibility Impostors Game Show Wednesday, February 25 at 10:00 am
Testing web experiences with your keyboard Wednesday, February 25 at 11:00 am
Never Judge a PDF by Its Cover Layer Wednesday, February 25 at 12:00 pm
Changing the World Through Procurement Accessibility Wednesday, February 25 at 12:00 pm
CSAT as a Tool for Accessibility Insights: Lessons from Arizona State University Wednesday, February 25 at 12:00 pm

10 tips for accessible publishing with Adobe InDesign
2026-03-03 08:00 - 09:00
This webinar invites participants to rethink their approach to design by viewing accessibility as an essential component of quality, not an afterthought.
Clear writing, consistent styling, mindful layout choices: all this can make documents easier to navigate for everyone, including users of assistive technologies. Beyond software techniques, the webinar stresses the importance of planning: setting up logical hierarchies, defining reading orders, and embedding metadata that supports searchability and compliance. Rather than presenting accessibility as a technical constraint, it frames it as a creative discipline that enhances clarity, professionalism, and reach.
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STEM Accessibility Basics - Part 1
2026-03-10 10:00 - 11:00
The first of a two-part series that provides an overview of best practices, considerations, and tools for generating accessible digital resources featuring math, music, and science content. The webinars will be recorded, and videos will be shared on this event page.
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How to Build an Audio Description Strategy That Actually Works
2026-03-11 11:00 - 12:00
In this webinar, 3PlayMedia will dive deep into audio description requirements, workflows, and publishing options. They’ll break down the legal context, practical implementation strategies, and real-world considerations so you can make informed, defensible decisions about your video accessibility program.
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Web Accessibility Open Lab March 2026 | WSU Web Communication
2026-03-12 09:30 - 11:00
