DIAGRAM Out and About: CSUN 2018 Edition

It’s that time of year again, when many of us head to sunny San Diego for the California State University Northridge (CSUN) Assistive Technology Conference. We have compiled a list of sessions that may be of interest to our community, including ones that Benetech’s DIAGRAM team will be co-presenting. Please feel free to suggest additional sessions for the list. For those of you attending the CSUN conference, we hope you will join us on Thursday, March 22 from 5:30 – 7:00 PM for our annual Office Hours event. It’s always a great time to catch up with old friends, meet new members of the community, and enjoy tasty snacks and drinks. We have reserved a suite at the Hyatt for the event and will send an email with the room number after check in. If you, or someone you know, would like to attend but aren’t on our mailing list, contact me at amayaw[at]Benetech[org].

CSUN Sessions of Potential Interest:

Sessions being co-presented by Benetech’s DIAGRAM team

Wednesday, March 21

 

• DIAGRAM Report 2017: Deep Look at Emerging Technologies for Learning

10:00 am, La Jolla A, 2nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Charles LaPierre and Lisa Wadors

• A New Breed of Accessible Tools for Mathematics: Digital Math Editors

2:20 pm, Balboa C, 2^nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Sue-Ann Ma, Neil Soiffer, Sam Dooley, John McGowan and Daniel Marquès

PowerPoint slides available for download here

Thursday, March 22^nd

 

• Global Certified Accessible: EPUB Accessible Certification Goes Global

10:00 am, La Jolla A, 2nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Charles LaPierre and Robin Seaman

• Meeting the Needs of all Learners through Multimodal Tools

Thursday, March 22, 11:00 am, Balboa AB 2d Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Jim Allen and Lisa Wadors

Friday, March 23^rd

 

• Exploring Ways to Automate Image Description Production for STEM

8:00 am, Balboa C, 2^nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Sue-Ann Ma, Ender Tekin and Katsuhito Yamaguchi

PowerPoint slides available for download here

 

• The Future is Bright: Innovative Ways to Access Visual Educational Content

1:20 pm, La Jolla A, 2nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Sue-Ann Ma, Lucy Greco, Øystein Moseng, and Volker Sorge

 

Sessions given by DIAGRAM community members on related topics:

 

Wednesday, March 21^st

• Publishing at the W3C: The Future of All Accessible Digital Publishing

9:00 am, La Jolla A, 2nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Rick Johnson, George Kerscher and Judy Brewer

• YouDescribe: A Free Tool for Adding Audio Description to Any YouTube Video

9:00 am, Balboa AB, 2^nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Josh Miele and Ting Siu

• Your Ace in the Hole to Win the Digital Publishing Accessibility Jackpot

11:00 am, La Jolla A, 2nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Rick Johnson, George Kerscher, Elaine Ober and Sharon Krevor-Weisbaum

• Math Access for Students with Visual Impairments: Addressing Linearity

11:00 am, Gaslamp AB, 2^nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Ting Siu and Chloe Rose

• Design and Preliminary Evaluation of an Orientation Information Tool

11:00 am, Gaslamp CD, 2^nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Jason White, Eric Hansen and Carlos Cavalie

• Providing Alternative Input for Complex Interactive Learning Resources

1:20 pm, Gaslamp CD, 2d Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Jesse Greenberg, Emily Moore, Taliesin Smith and Michael Kauzmann

Thursday, March 22^nd

• Pretty and Accessible: bring Beauty, Simplicity and Usability to Content

8:00 am, La Jolla A, 2^nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Elaine Ober, Amy Salmon and Brian Hochhalter

• EPUB Creation Tool Comparison

9:00 am, Balboa AB 2d Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Amy Mason

• Remote Usability Testing with Participants Who are Visually Disabled

10:00 am, Balboa AB, 2d Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Mark Hakkinen and Carlos Cavalie

• Generating Audio-Tactile and Web-Accessible SVG Graphics-2018 Update

11:00 am, Gaslamp AB, 2d Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by John Gardner and Volker Sorge

• Introducing Readiance: “Read-Aloud” Books for Titles in the Public Domain

1:20 pm, Gaslamp CD, 2^nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Joseph Polizzotto

• Why ePUB is the Standard for Accessible eBooks

1:20 pm, La Jolla A, 2nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by: George Kerscher, Amy Salmon, Elaine Ober, Rick Johnson and Brian Hochhalter

• Don’t Play Me: 2 Games in Web Accessibility

3:20 pm, Gaslamp CD, 2^nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Ted Gies

• Accessible Math: Best Practices after 25 Years of Research and Development

4:20 pm, Mission Beach C, 3^rd Floor, Between Harbor and Seaport Towers
Presented by Steve Noble, Neil Soiffer, Sam Dooley, Dan Brown and Edgar Lozano

Friday, March 23^rd

• Building Quantitative Literacy with Accessible Charts and Graphs

8:00 am, La Jolla B, 2^nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Ed Summers

• WGBH and NASA: Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms

9:00 am, Balboa C, 2^nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Madeleine Rothberg and Anna Brooks

• T3 Platform: The Audio-Tactile Interactive Tablet Evolves

9:00 am, Gaslamp AB, 2^nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Steve Landau, Josh Miele and Stephanie Herlich

• Teach Access- 2018 Update

10:00 am, Gaslamp CD, 2^nd floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Larry Goldberg, Jeffrey Wieland and Mary Bellard

• Dialog-based Approach for A11y of Simulation-based Science Assessment

1:20 pm, Balboa AB, 2^nd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Jason White, Erich Hansen, Carlos Cavalie and Cary Supalo

• Integrating SSML in HTML for Improved Spoken Rendering by AT: Next Steps

2:20 pm, Torrey Hills AB, 3^rd Floor, Seaport Tower
Presented by Mark Hakinnen, Irfan Ali and Cary Supalo