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Mike Gifford (He / Him)

Alt Text and AI

What can we learn about how we can improve the accessibility of our site when comes to alternative text.

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Kat Shaw

ARIA attributes bridge the gap to address accessibility issues that cannot be managed with native HTML. Join us as we explore what ARIA is, what it can do, when you should use it - and when not to.
At the end of this talk, attendees will be able to properly apply ARIA attributes to their sites and apps, including when it’s best to stick with native HTML.

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Carie Fisher & Jesse Dugas

Join Carie and Jesse from the GitHub Accessibility team for an engaging session on improving your coding practices with GitHub Copilot. Learn about its accessibility features, watch demonstrations on writing accessible code, and discover techniques to enhance the accessibility of your own projects. This session will help make your development process more efficient and inclusive.


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John Jameson
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A high percentage of Web content is created by people who are not likely to remember to run a manual auditing tool, or to understand the results if they did. In the Drupal ecosystem, Editoria11y filled an unmet need for these authors: a checker that works like spellcheck by automatically highlighting issues inline when they view their new page, with simple tooltips written for a non-technical audience. With the WordPress plugin just completed, I will discuss what has made this approach so effective on other platforms, and ask for feedback and ideas for its WordPress roadmap.

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with Editoria11y

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Sheri Byrne-Haber
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Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate accessibility tasks represents a transformative advancement in digital inclusion efforts. These powerful models can replace manual accessibility work by generating image descriptions, providing real-time closed captions, and seamlessly translating content into multiple languages, reducing the burden on content creators, designers, developers, accessibility, and quality assurance teams.

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Blake Bertuccelli

Open Source means nothing to the larger accessibility community. That is a problem. Proprietary solutions limit access to vital accessibility tools. This presentation outlines existing Open Source accessibility solutions while asking the question "Why aren’t there more Open Source a11y tools?" The presentation is meant to be both a survey of existing solutions and a call to action for new Open Source solutions. Web Accessibility stagnates without more Open Source A11y tools.

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