Accessible Meetings: Integrating Captioning in Conference Platforms During this session you will learn how to integrate Real-Time Captioning/Computer Assisted Real-Time Transcription (CART), and key requirements for public events & webinars.

Videos for All: Strategies for Developing Audio Described Videos While video and multimedia can be great vehicles to communicate with the public and with internal audiences, making those videos fully accessible can be a challenge! This workshop will offer tips and tricks for generating audio described videos, including strategies for developing audio descriptions for both technical and general audiences.

The Human Reason for Accessibility (Part 1) Presenters will introduce foundational accessibility concepts, such as ableism, disability, social vs. medical models of disability, and societal benefits of accessibility.

Captioning Multimedia - Is It As Complicated As It Sounds? While captioning might seem straightforward - it's as simple as typing out what you hear, right? And auto-captioning is available everywhere - providing good captioning takes a little something extra. In this workshop, you’ll learn about captioning types for prerecorded media, best practices for grammar and editing, captioning workflows, and some of the latest tools to quickly and correctly caption your videos, no matter what platform you want to load them into.

The Human Reason for Accessibility (Part 2) Presenters will build on Part 1, foundational concepts of accessibility, to explore with attendees how we can help remove environmental, institutional, and attitudinal barriers to an accessible workplace.

Section 508 PMs - What You Need To Know New to managing a 508 program? Not sure where to start? Feeling a bit overwhelmed? Remember, you don’t need to know everything on day one. In this session get inspired by hearing how Accessibility Programs, across agencies, use the Section 508 Playbook to learn, grow, and adapt it to their cultural and technical environment.

Creating Accessible PDF Forms Learn how to make your PDF forms Section 508 conformant using Adobe tools.

Section 508 PMs - Using What You Know Building on the previous session, Section508 PMs - What You Need to Know, panelists will discuss using best practices in the real world, baselining, and moving forward.

Workplace Mental Health - Why It's More Important Than Ever to Focus on the Mental Health of Your Employees. Struggling with human emotions is a universal experience, yet mental health is a topic that gets stigmatized every day in our society. Mental health awareness is on the rise, particularly as COVID-19 continues to drive an epidemic of stress and burnout. That's why it's more important than ever for companies to prioritize employee well-being and mental health. This presents unique challenges in the workplace, going beyond just providing mental health options to creating a workplace in which all employees truly feel supported by employers and connected to one another. This presentation will share one agency's efforts to establish a work culture that embraces mental health, talks about it, and supports employee mental health through the establishment of an Employee Resource Group accessible to all employees and contractors within the National Science Foundation.

Striving for Universal Access: Image Descriptions Since the summer of 2020, more than 1,000 fully accessible textual descriptions of works of art in the National Gallery of Art's collection have gone live and cover 60% of traffic to museum's collection pages. Learn how we leveraged a large-scale, interdepartmental project to make this a reality, from documenting the process through published description guidelines, to focusing on all users through an inclusive design approach which supports the National Gallery's mission for universal access.

Beyond 508 Compliance: A Four-Point Hybrid Testing Approach For our new ONRR.gov site, we wanted to ensure the site is accessible from the start. We decided to use a four-point hybrid testing approach. The first step is running automated Lighthouse accessibility reports. We followed up with manual testing with NVDA screen reader. We then worked with a SME with visual disability to review the website. Finally, we iterated the needed fixes with our developer. We'll present learnings from this process.

Mission Accessible Getting the Job Done Mission Accessible, inspired by Mission Impossible, consists of five daily missions delivered via email. Each mission, usually no more than 5 minutes, is focused on one of the following areas ':' Vision, Hearing, Mobility, Speech, and Cognitive. Those participating report out if they completed it and any other observations. It can help people walk in someone else's shoe while learning about features they may not have been aware of (e.g., dictation, and using short cut keys).

Phases of "Advancing Accessibility" in a Small Agency Sharing Phases of "Advancing Accessibility":

• Awareness - People learn about the topic of accessibility
• Acknowledgment - People accept that accessibility is important or how it impacts them and the way they work
• Adaption - People start to change their behavior about accessibility
• Adoption - People's changed behavior becomes habit when considering accessibility
• Advocacy - People help and encourage others to adhere to and apply better behaviors regarding accessibility

The UniDescription Project: Audio Describing the World, One Brochure at a Time For years, the National Park Service and University of Hawaii have partnered to audio describe print brochures. The results: A website rich with resources, open source editing tools, hundreds of trained staff, and over 160 brochures available on an app. All results are informed by research, and collaborators who are blind or low vision. This presentation will provide background, demo the audio description tools you can use, and hear a collaborator's perspective.

WCAG 3 - Current Status and Ways to Get Involved The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is working on WCAG 3, the next generation of digital accessibility standards. This presentation will:

1. Review the goals for WCAG 3
2. Discuss the current status of the work
3. Provide an opportunity for immediate feedback
4. Review ways to keep up to date and provide ongoing feedback.

Best Practices for Achieving Digital Accessibility Federal acquisition processes for procuring Information and Communication Technology (ICT) provide key opportunities to ensure accessible technology is purchased. Best Practices are shared on how Federal Agencies procure accessible ICT as required by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. The audience is guided through key acquisition lifecycle stages and shows how and when to incorporate digital accessibility requirements. Accessibility Conformance Report creation and evaluation is also reviFederal acquisition processes for procuring Information and Communication Technology (ICT) provide key opportunities to ensure accessible technology is purchased. Best Practices are shared on how Federal Agencies procure accessible ICT as required by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. The audience is guided through key acquisition lifecycle stages and shows how and when to incorporate digital accessibility requirements. Accessibility Conformance Report creation and evaluation is also reviewed.

A Different Perspective for Looking at Accessibility In 2022 the 1-in-4 Americans with disabilities continue to experience inequities due to accessibility barriers to electronic information technology (EIT). Access to EIT is a civil right. Even when provided with a reasonable accommodation PWD must identify their own work-a-rounds to reduce barriers. Join us to experience the world from an alternative point of view as panelist share tips and tricks they use daily to increase their productivity and opportunities for inclusion in the workplace.

Demystifying Section 508: Creating and Evaluating Accessibility Conformance Reports The US Federal Government buys more Information and Communication Technology (ICT) than it builds. To ensure the most accessible ICT is purchased, the Government relies on Industry to provide Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs). This presentation shows how ACR creation is a win-win situation for Industry and Government. NASA shares its guide to help industry develop ACRs and promote an understanding of Section 508 by both Industry and Government. Best practices in ACR evaluation are shared.