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Who is #a11yTO?
#a11yTO has been creating, supporting, and expanding the digital accessibility community in Toronto since 2011. #a11yTO provides digital accessibility knowledge to curious humans through meetups, camps, and conferences.
What is #a11yTO Conf?
#a11yTO Conf is the only event of its kind in Canada. Held in Toronto, #a11yTO Conf is a two-day, single-track digital accessibility conference.
Our event has reached capacity every year, attracting over 400 people annually from all over the world. Past playlists have included curated world-class speakers from Australia, Japan, Austria, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. #a11yTO Conf is an established destination event that accessibility professionals plan on attending every year.
#a11yTO Conf is one of a few programs recognized by the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) for its Continuing Accessibility Education Credit.
What topics are covered?
This year’s event will cover many topics, including:
- Inclusive design and Cognitive Disability
- Accessible eLearning
- Practical lessons for improving text resizing
- Using the accessibility tree to debug HTML
- Accessibility for young coders
- Building an accessibility knowledge hub
- Accessibility conformance reports and vendor monitoring programs
- Accessibility overlays through a scientific lens
- Inclusive digital geographic mapping
- Mobile app accessibility
- Usability testing
- Leveraging CMS to create more accessible digital experiences
Who will be there?
Our audience includes developers, designers, project managers, product owners, government and regulatory representatives, thought leaders, and advocates. Past events have welcomed attendees from:
- Adobe
- Amazon
- Bell
- BMO
- Canada Post
- Capital One
- CBC
- CIBC
- CRA
- Crawford Technologies
- CRTC
- D2L
- Deque
- eBay
- Epic Games
- EY
- Fable
- Github
- Hilton
- HRSDC
- Hydro Quebec
- Indeed
- LCBO
- League
- Level Access
- Manulife
- Metrolinx
- Microsoft
- Mozilla
- Navy Federal Credit Union
- Neil Squire Society
- RBC
- Salesforce
- Scotiabank
- Shopify
- Siteimprove
- Slack
- Sony
- Spotify
- TD
- TELUS
- T-Mobile
- Toronto Metropolitan University
- TPGi
- Ubisoft
- Visa
Still not convinced?
Find out what past attendees and speakers have to say about #a11yTO Conf: