OZeWAI online event - Ask the Professionals - 18 October 2024 - Get Online Week

Introduction

OZeWAI has moved from running an annual conference to partnering with many in-person and online conferences and offering membership benefits as part of individual and organisation membership tiers. Benefits include online events to ask the tough accessibility questions of the professional accessibility specialists. 

This panel event is to support Get Online Week, for you to:

• Ask questions from 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:

Kylie Pollock

Kylie (aka the Hairbow Hippie) is a trained accessibility professional who comes with a software engineering background and moved into the accessibility space approximately 5 years ago.

Kylie lives with photosensitivity, C-PTSD, Chronic Daily Migraines, Cluster Headaches and recently severe anxiety. Kylie’s photosensitivity and migraines affects her vision and cognitive processing, so Kylie uses a few adaptive strategies when consuming virtual content including using blue light reduction filters, reducing screen brightness, increasing font and cursor size, and watching any videos with captions and generally 1.5 to double speed. 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylie-pollock-88241530/ 

Scott Nixon

Scott Nixon has been involved with computers since the late 1980s and, being legally blind from birth, has experienced it all through the lens of accessibility. Now totally blind for the past 23 years, he is a consultant for both physical and digital design projects, a public speaker and disability rights advocate. He is also one of the only four people in Australia currently implanted with an Australian designed Bionic Eye. In his free time, he enjoys all things pop culture, global politics and has recently begun returning to the world of video games for the first time in 25 years thanks to recent advancements in gaming accessibility. 

Twitter: @MrBrokenEyes

Ricky Onsman (moderator)

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 Technical Content Writer sees him providing technical advice to a very large global team of engineers and auditors. 

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