Introduction

The 'Ask the Professional' events are free and recognised as professional development for many organisations.

Join OZeWAI members and guests, including knowledgeable digital accessibility experts, specialists and researchers from all over the world, as well as leaders in the industry, government and non-profit organisations, to explore and support digital inclusion topics and ideas.

Topic: tips and tricks for mobile and app accessibility testing.

This panel event will bring together accessibility specialists for you to:

Ask questions of the experts
Share knowledge of similar issues
Find where to get help with accessibility advice and expertise

Session access requirements

The session agenda and access details will be shared 2 days before the event. This is a remote online event using Zoom.

Please email info@ozewai.org if you wish to share any tools, communication methods or anything else we should consider to ensure you can fully participate in the session.

Thank you from the OZeWAI Committee

Panelists:

Genevieve Lake (she/her)

Genevieve is an Accessibility Senior Specialist at Telstra, based in Adelaide, Australia. With a background in web design and development, UX, and business analysis, she has spent the past 15 years involved in agile delivery teams, dedicated to improving digital experiences for everyone. Her transition into accessibility seven years ago felt like a natural progression of her passion for inclusive design. More recently, her work has centred on mobile app accessibility—a space where she’s developed a strong and growing interest.

LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/genevieve-lake-958b55ba

Paul van Workum (he/him)

Paul is co-owner and advisor of Abra.ai. Abra makes apps accessible by focusing on making accessibility straightforward, enabling developers to make effective improvements.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulvanworkum/

Ricky Onsman (he/him)

Ricky is a veteran Australian web designer, front-end developer, writer, and editor. He has been an OZeWAI member since 2014, and a Committee Member since 2017. He currently focuses on the OZeWAI website, newsletter, and social media.

As a writer and/or editor of articles, magazines and books, Ricky has worked with the likes of UX Australia, SitePoint, Web Directions and Smashing Magazine. As a freelance designer and front end dev, he has spent two decades building accessible websites for clients.

Ricky has also worked with a series of companies focused on digital accessibility including AccessIQ, Simply Accessible, AccessibilityOz, Intopia, Tenon, and now US-based TPGi where his role as Principal Technical Writer sees him providing technical digital accessibility advice to a very large global team of engineers and auditors.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickyonsman/

Moderated by:

Gian Wild (she/her)

Gian Wild works in the area of web accessibility: making sure web sites and mobile apps can be used by people with disabilities. Gian has worked in the accessibility industry since 1998. She worked on the first Level AAA accessible web site in Australia (Disability Information Victoria) and developed one of the first automated accessibility testing tools, PurpleCop, in 2000. She spent six years contributing to the international set of web accessibility guidelines used around the world, the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Gian Wild is the CEO, Founder and President of AccessibilityOz, established in Australia in 2011 and the United States in 2015. Gian is the Chair of the Mobile Site and Native App Mobile Accessibility Guidelines, is active on the Higher Education Content Steering Group for Accessibility Switchboard, as well as a committee member of the ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium conference in the United States.

Gian speaks at both web and accessibility conferences around the world, including in the United States, Europe, South America and Canada. In June 2015, Gian presented to the United Nations on the importance of web accessibility at the Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In 2019, Gian won the inaugural Accessibility Person of the Year in Australia.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gianwild/