OZeWAI online event - Ask the Professionals - October 2023

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 will bring together three of OZeWAI's partners\, 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:

Chris Law

Through his company, Accessibility Track Consulting, LLC, Dr. Chris M. Law runs several innovative projects with and for the accessibility community:

• Standard Accessibility Reporting, Inc., developing industry consensus standards for accessibility reporting
• The annual ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium
• The annual Digital Accessibility Legal Summit
• The National Federation of the Blind’s Accessibility Switchboard Information Portal

Rosemary Allsopp

Rose is Operations Director of Web Directions.  Web Directions Summit has provided an opportunity for OZeWAI to continue to have an in-person way to network and share accessibility news and advice for the past couple of years.   

Julia Svaganovic

The current Accessible & Inclusive Tourism Conference Coordinator at @GetAboutAble, Julia is an experienced event planner, creative producer and a powerchair user. Among other projects, she spent nine years in key positions running the speculative fiction convention Continuum and co-founded the @WeAreDisabled Twitter project which was created to give Deaf and Disabled people a platform to speak about their lives, experiences and disability issues. She also serves on the committee of the Australian Powerchair Hockey Association.

Julia has always had a strong desire to travel but struggled with the barriers, so is passionate about encouraging the tourism industry to be more inclusive and empowering people with disabilities to fulfil their travel dreams. Julia is proud of her proven record of advocating for and initiating diversity and inclusion practices, and giving others a platform to talk about their experiences.

You can find her on LinkedIn and Twitter, where she is always up for a good chat.

Moderated by:

Brigitta (Bri) Norton

Bri is a Digital Strategist and User Experience and Accessibility specialist based in Canberra, Australia and has been an Accessibility Lead for both State and Federal Government. Bri has more recently co-developed inclusive research workshops to share how to include accessibility earlier in the project lifecycle which includes engaging with people with disability as part of inclusive research activities.

Amongst her professional experience with government agencies and local businesses, Bri has previously been the Australian Government Digital Transformation Agency’s Accessibility and Inclusivity Lead, is the co-chair and the conference convenor for Australia’s Web Accessibility Initiative OZeWAI.org, a Standards Australian Accessible ICT Procurement Committee Member and a member of the ResearchOps.Community Cheese Board. 

You can find her for a chat on Twitter @algazel or LinkedIn.com/in/BriNorton or join her at the Canberra Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup.