Past events
September
State of the Browser 2024
Description
A one-day, single-track conference with widely-varying talks about the modern web, accessibility, web standards, and more, organised by London Web Standards.
2 accessibility highlights
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Steve Faulkner: No industry for old men
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Lola Odelola: Improving Accessibility with ARIA-AT
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Inclusive Design 24
Description
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) is a free 24-hour online event for the global community. It celebrates inclusive design and shares knowledge and ideas from analogue to digital, from design to development, from planners to practitioners, and everything and everyone in between.
SmashingConf Freiburg
Description
Focused on front-end and UX, SmashingConf is a friendly event focused on real-world problems and solutions. 2 days, 1 track, 12 speakers, 300–400 attendees and a handful of hands-on workshops.
5 accessibility highlights
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Oliver Schöndorfer: Typographer vs. Accessibility
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Sandy Dähnert: Sustainable Design For Nature And All People
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Accessibility in layers: the automation workflow to help tackle the European Accessibility Act
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Sarah L. Fossheim: Practical Accessibility
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Sarah L. Fossheim: Accessibility in Data Visualization
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World Alzheimer’s Month
August
Web Accessibility in Mind Conference
Description
Presented by WebAIM in partnership with Pope Tech, this virtual conference will provide participants with content that will help them mature their practice in digital accessibility.
June
Disability Pride Month
Figma Config 2024
Description
Figma's conference for people who build products.
1 accessibility highlight
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Pitching accessible design like a pro
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UX London 2024
Description
Three-day conference covering all aspects of the design process from user research and product design through to design ops and design systems.
1 accessibility highlight
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Demystifying Inclusive Research
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Pixel Pioneers Bristol
Description
An affordable one-day conference of practical and inspiring front-end and UX/UI design talks, featuring eight world-class speakers.
1 accessibility highlight
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Less ‘Help’, More ‘Yelp’: When Accessibility Enthusiasm Actively Harms
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Accessibility Club Summit 2024
Description
Taking place right after CSS Day 2024, the summit features a full-day barcamp and a second day with community run workshops. Join us for two days of gaining knowledge about web accessibility, exchanging experiences and meeting like-minded enthusiasts from all over Europe and beyond.
CSS Day 2024
Description
An advanced, single-track CSS conference for designers, developers, spec writers and browser vendors.
1 accessibility highlight
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Accessibility and CSS with Sara Soueidan
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May
User Experience Lisbon
Description
Join UX friends from all over the world for a one-of-a-kind learning experience. It’s 4 days to soak in new knowledge and strengthen your skillset.
4 accessibility highlights
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Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility
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Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility
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Accessibility as a Design Tool
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Innovating with Accessibility
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Virtua11y 2024
Description
Nomensa's free, virtual web accessibility and digital inclusion conference. All sessions are recorded and everyone that signs up will have exclusive access to the recordings.
Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf
Description
Affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Munich with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and friendly atmosphere.
2 accessibility highlights
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Accessible Typography for Web and UI Design
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Typographer vs. Accessibility
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March
Neurodiversity Celebration Week
CSUN Assistive Technology Conference
Description
An inclusive setting for researchers, practitioners, exhibitors, end users, speakers and other participants to share knowledge and best practices in the field of assistive technology.
February
TechAccess Oklahoma 2024
Description
Accessibility experts from across the US join together to share their extensive knowledge with you.
Zero Project Conference 2024
Description
The Zero Project Conference will reunite the global disability inclusion community, and highlight outstanding innovations centred around this year's topics of Inclusive Education, and ICT.
axe-con 2024
Description
Axe-con is the world’s largest digital accessibility conference that welcomes developers, designers, business users, and accessibility professionals of all experience levels to an accessibility conference focused on building, testing, and maintaining accessible digital experiences.
State of Open Con 2024
Description
The UK's open technology conference covering open source software, open hardware and open data.
3 accessibility highlights
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The Inclusive Codebase: Engineering Accessibility in Open Source Software
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Inclusive by Design: Revolutionizing Accessibility
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Enhancing Open-Source Development: A Focus on Accessible Documentation
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FOSDEM 2024
Description
A free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in!
2 accessibility highlights
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Web Accessibility and Environmental Sustainability and with Popular CMS
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Web-accessibility for open-source privacy & security tools
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Raynaud’s Awareness Month
January
ATIA 2024
Description
Connect with thousands of assistive technology practitioners, teachers, parents, caregivers, persons with disabilities, and more.Discover new technologies, opportunities, and creative ideas that support the power of the AT community.
November 2023
Wey Wey Web
Description
A multi-disciplinary conference that brings together the full spectrum of individuals involved on the latest trends and practices in Web and Mobile development and UX and Product design.
1 accessibility highlight
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Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility with Anna E. Cook
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Interact Amsterdam
Description
Interact Amsterdam Virtual Conference is Nomensa's free, virtual offering of Interact Amsterdam. Join us for six talks covering the central theme of Designing Tomorrow from some of the world's leading thinkers in UX and design.
1 accessibility highlight
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Accessibility, the Future and YOU
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TestBash Autumn
Description
2-day online software testing conference covering a wide variety of testing topics, including a talk on how to advocate for accessibility testing and implement it in your teams.
1 accessibility highlight
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How to Advocate for Accessibility Testing and Implementing It on Your Teams
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UK Disability History Month
TechShare Pro
Description
Europe's largest gathering of accessibility and inclusion professionals and their allies. Meet like-minded people and learn from the world's leading experts, either online or in-person.
Agile Testing Days
Description
4-day conference where 600+ international agile software testers and engineers gather to learn, share, and network. This year's accessibility talks include 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to mobile accessibility' and 'Automated Accessibility Testing: A Showcase'.
3 accessibility highlights
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Shift Accessibility testing to the Left
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to mobile accessibility
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Automated Accessibility Testing a showcase
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Magnify 2023
Description
This conference will explore topics that support practitioners implement equity-seeking design and research processes in meaningful ways online. Talks are pre-recorded to make them as accessible as possible, and reduce any tech problems.
4 accessibility highlights
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Benchmarking accessibility at the Co-op
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Exploring Scalable Research and Inclusive Design Strategies
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I know you can't read this: Combatting accidental exclusion in your presentations
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Inclusively shifting left with Assistive Technology prototype reviews
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ReTestBash UK
Description
The ultimate online conference designed to deepen your knowledge and extend your learning from the TestBash UK 2023 Conference. As the name suggests, ReTestBash revolves around reflection, providing you with the perfect opportunity to dive even deeper into the diverse software testing topics covered at TestBash UK.
1 accessibility highlight
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Discussion: Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion
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October 2023
Web Directions Summit
Description
Expect top notch ideas, reams of actionable insights and life changing connections. There are 8 tracks of content, with talks on WCAG 2.0 for designers and baking accessibility into design systems.
2 accessibility highlights
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Five Fundamental Principles of Inclusive Research
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Baking Accessibility into Your Design System
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#a11yTO Conf
Description
During #a11yWeekTO, you can expect multiple accessibility events in Downtown Toronto, including free social events, #a11yTOGaming, and our two-day, single-track Digital Accessibility Conference hosted at Microsoft.
Interact London
Description
Design conference where the best minds from UX, design, AI, data and more share their ideas with digital leaders from around the world, including Jonny Hendriks, Nomensa's Head of Accessibility. You can also book a session in the Empathy Lab the day before the main conference.
M-Enabling Summit
Description
Join disability advocates, corporations, government agencies, academia, and accessibility executives at the leading all-inclusive conference and showcase dedicated to fostering innovations, solutions, and strategies for digital inclusion.
September 2023
Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Inclusive Design 24
Description
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) is a free 24-hour online event for the global community. It celebrates inclusive design and shares knowledge and ideas from analogue to digital, from design to development, from planners to practitioners, and everything and everyone in between.