A11y Bytes is back for its eleventh year celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

This year, we’ll be going back to our roots, and having face-to-face events in Sydney and Melbourne.

The heart of digital accessibility and inclusion is not about guidelines, codes or regulations. It’s about people, and life, and how we live, how we access information, and how our lives are affected by the technologies of today.

As many as 500 people have attended online Bytes events, as well as physical events in Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney attended an A11y Bytes event, making this the largest community run accessibility event in Australia. The event has since branched out into parts of New Zealand and it continues to grow.

You don’t have to be an accessibility aficionado to attend. This event is about us all talking, thinking and learning about digital accessibility and inclusion together.

Take part in A11y Bytes and connect, be inspired and have some fun as we talk, learn, grow and change the world.

More details (including venue) will be made available soon, but places are limited, so please register and don't miss out!

Presenters

Laura Moller - Digital accessibility and mental illness

Cathy Basterfield - How complex is the language on your websites? Who is being left behind?

Bobby Ly - The digital kerb cut

Cass Embling – Why accessible wayfinding is stuck in the 1960s and why it doesn’t have to stay there

Allison Ravenhall - Who is using your app?

Charlii Parker - Uncovering the Unseen: Making the Workplace Work for Everyone

Transportation information to the venue

A11y Bytes Melbourne will be hosted at Melbourne Connect Co-working, Level 2, 700 Swanston St, Carlton.

How to get to the venue:

Tram Routes: 1, 3, 3a, 5, 6, 16, 64, 67, 72 & 19
Flinders Street & Melbourne Central - catch connecting trams: 1, 3, 3a, 5, 16, 64, 67 & 72

North Melbourne – catch connecting bus 401
Macaulay – catch connecting bus 402

Bus Routes: 200, 207, 250, 251, 401, 402, 403, 505 & 546

Taxi Rank: Grattan street

Car parks:

Cardigan House Parking - 96 Grattan St
University of Melbourne, Parkville campus - eastern precinct car park - 375 Cardigan St, Carlton