2019 Boston Accessibility Conference – 11/2 – Register Now!

2019/10/212019/10/19 ~ John Rochford

Register Now for the 2019 Boston Accessibility Conference!

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When

Saturday, November 2, 8:15 AM to 4:00 PM

Where

Fidelity Investments Corporate Headquarters
245 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02110
Close to Boston’s South Station

What

This is a conference about making technology accessible, especially the web. It is an opportunity for programmers, designers, developers, students, usability professionals, accessibility experts, and end-users to share information and learn from each other.

Who

Keynote Speaker: Jutta Treviranus, Inclusive Design Research Centre, Ontario College of Art and Design University

Organizers

2019 sponsors include my own program, INDEX, which has free information about programs, providers, and services for people with disabilities in Massachusetts. See DisabilityInfo.org. We build accessible web applications and online courses. See INDEX Technical Services. We also develop mass-scale, artificial-intelligence-driven Web text simplification for people with cognitive disabilities. See EasyText.AI.

Register Now for the 2019 Boston Accessibility Conference!

U.S. Federal Interagency Accessibility Forum

2019/10/072019/10/05 ~ John Rochford

Federal Annual Interagency Accessibility Forum: Ensuring accessibility is a business imperative.
Today, I will be a panelist for the general session, Future Directions of Inclusive Technologies, at the United States Federal Interagency Accessibility Forum.

I will be speaking and answering questions about:

How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) help people understand what they read? (This relates to my EasyText.AI research.)
How can AI help people with disabilities live independently?
How can AI help people with disabilities gain and retain employment?
How we must not teach AI our biases.

Moderator

Betsy Sirk, Information Technology and Section 508 Program Manager, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Panelists

Dean Halstead, Director of Cloud, Collaboration and Accessibility, U.S. Microsoft Public Sector;
Seamus McAteer, General Manager, Otter.ai;
Keith Nakasone, Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Acquisition Management, IT Category, General Services Administration (GSA);
John Rochford, Director, INDEX Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, and Faculty, University of Massachusetts Medical School;
Debra Ruh, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Ruh Global Communications (RGC);
Paul Schroeder, Public Policy and Strategic Alliances, Aira Tech Corporation;
Corinne Weible, Co-Director, Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology (PEAT), DOL