10:00 am
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Michelle Mata
In this session, Michelle Mata will highlight how accessibility features benefit all learners, introduce key WCAG benchmarks, and demonstrate practical ways to build accessibility into eLearning courses, slide decks, videos, and other learning materials using tools like alt text, focus order, captions, and color contrast.
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12:00 pm
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Cara North
In this session, Cara North shows how to turn your accessibility standards into prompts for a custom GPT that helps your team catch issues early—making inclusion part of the workflow, not an afterthought.
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8:00 am
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Ericka Tinsley
In this session, Ericka Tinsley shares how she adapted a digital course and created accessible, gamified Google Forms to support both low vision learners and screen reader users, offering practical strategies for inclusive design.
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10:00 am
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Donna Boucher
This session explores how to use color thoughtfully in digital design to ensure readability and inclusion, showing that effective design can be both accessible and visually appealing.
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8:00 am
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Deborah Harris
This session invites participants to examine their design practices through a cultural lens, uncovering biases and exploring ways to create learning experiences that resonate across cultures, languages, and lived experiences.
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10:00 am
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Jacob Wood
Experience how screen readers interact with your learning content and learn practical strategies—beyond compliance—for structuring, labeling, and writing alt text that makes eLearning more accessible, navigable, and inclusive for blind and low vision users.
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8:00 am
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Antoinette Norris Woodson
This session explores how AI can enhance accessibility by reducing cognitive overload, supporting diverse learners, and embedding inclusive design into the workflow—offering practical strategies for using AI tools to boost critical thinking, streamline development, and scale impact without sacrificing creativity or connection.
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10:00 am
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Sarah Syed
This session explores how integrating metacognitive strategies into instructional design enhances learner agency and accessibility, aligning with UDL and WCAG 2.2 to support diverse and marginalized learners through transparency, scaffolding, and flexible learning pathways.
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8:00 am
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Ashley Cooks
This session explores how to design inclusive, accessible learning experiences using UDL, accessibility standards, and cultural intelligence—offering practical strategies for reaching diverse learners across generations, cultures, abilities, and languages.
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10:00 am
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Judy Katz
This session explores how to reframe accessibility as part of a broader access strategy—making it easier to communicate its value to clients, stakeholders, and executives, especially in organizations where accessibility isn’t an easy sell.
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10:00 am
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Judy Katz
This session explores how managers can move beyond a one-size-fits-all approach by using flexible, neurodiversity-informed strategies that support all kinds of brains—diagnosis or disclosure not required.
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12:00 pm
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Christy Tucker
AI-generated images often reflect bias and exaggerate stereotypes related to race, gender, age, and disability. Learn strategies for writing more effective image prompts to minimize bias and reflect more inclusive representation in your learning. We'll also discuss some of the ongoing challenges with inclusive representation in AI image generation.
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