Accessibility Allies monthly roundtable

2nd Tuesday of each month.
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Topic for September: Recruitment without Barriers

Learn how to access talented staff with strengths and abilities workplaces need but often overlook.

Join us for a discussion about how people with disability can provide skills and abilities your workplace needs.

Learn about alternative recruitment programs that help people with disability to become valuable staff.

Featuring Xavier Vella an accessibility advocate and researcher exploring how accessible modern recruitment and hiring systems really are. Drawing on his own experience as a job seeker with a limb difference, he is examining job advertisements, recruitment and application platforms, online assessments and wider hiring workflows using both automated accessibility testing tools and manual reviews. His latest research is also expanding to include feedback from the accessibility community and a closer look at government recruitment processes, comparing stated accessibility commitments with the real candidate experience.

Meet accessibility professionals and advocates.

No presentations
Open discussion
Exchange ideas
Genuine connections

Tuesday 8 September 2026

5.30pm for a 6:00pm start - 7:30pm finish

Free

Registration is essential
Light refreshments provided (incl vegan and GF)

Location

Tank Stream Labs

Level 5 / 440 Collins Street, Melbourne

Quiet exclusive space
Wheelchair access
Accessible toilet

Guest sign-in

Use the touch screen to right of the doors on level 5 to sign in as a guest. Or you can scan a QR code to use your mobile to sign in.

Host name: Inshu Misra

Running late?

Let us know you'll be late with an ETA. Wait at the red chairs in the lobby and we will come get you when you arrive.

Accessibility questions

It's important to us that our events are as inclusive as we can make them. We have provided some information in the FAQs section for questions you may have and information about the steps we have taken.

Please contact us if you have any accessibility needs or questions not covered in the FAQs. We will do what we can to help you feel comfortable attending.

Contact the host of A11y Allies roundtable: Recruitment without Barriers