Accessibility Days 2021
2021-05-20..2021-05-22
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[Accessibility Days 2021, Accessibility Days 2023, Accessibility Days 2024, Accessibility Days 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday Keynote | Erika Stefani, Antonio Palmieri, Ivan Venuti | 43m |
A keynote panel with Italy’s Minister for Disabilities Erika Stefani, MP Antonio Palmieri (Culture Committee), and computer science teacher Ivan Venuti… | ||
| Digital Barriers: the Most Common Critical Issues | Marco Andreoli | 34m |
Results from accessibility tests on over 100 varied websites (public administration portals, company sites, web apps, associations, freelancers) are… | ||
| Accessibility Game [part 1 of 3] | Roberto Scano, Fabrizio Caccavello, Saulo Cesaretti, Michele Landolfo, Beatrice De Luca, Pietro Minucci, Stefano Olivari | 46m |
An introduction to the “Accessibility Game” project, presenting how to teach and evaluate web accessibility through a gamified format. It explains the game’s… | ||
| Accessibility Game [part 2 of 3] | Roberto Scano, Fabrizio Caccavello, Sauro Cesaretti, Michele Landolfo, Beatrice De Luca, Pietro Minucci, Stefano Ottaviani | 01h 03m |
A three-part session titled Accessibility Game (part 2) continues exploring accessible design and testing through playful, hands-on activities. It presents… | ||
| Accessibility Game [part 3 of 3] | Roberto Scano, Fabrizio Caccavello, Sauro Cesaretti, Michele Landolfo, Beatrice De Luca, Pietro Minucci, Stefano Olivari | 01h 06m |
A three-part video series presenting an "Accessibility Game" that teaches web accessibility concepts through interactive challenges. It walks through practical… | ||
| Italian Developers and Accessibility: an Overview at the Dawn of the ’20s | Antonio Giovanni Schiavone | 45m |
Presents results from a survey of about 300 Italian developers to map how accessibility is understood and practiced in Italy, identifying common skepticism… | ||
| Accessibility Driven Development | Andrea Ercoli | 40m |
Andrea Ercoli describes how Madisoft, a company making school software, started an Accessibility Driven Development effort after an Accessibility Days event… | ||
| Accessible Web with AMP! | Juna Salviati, Aman Sharma | 01h 07m |
Introduces AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) as a web framework to build more accessible websites from early development stages, showing how using AMP components… | ||
| Vulnerabilities and Risk Perception in Disaster Situations | A. Opromolla, V. Pazzi, S. Bonati | 47m |
Presents early results from the European LINKS project on using social media and crowdsourcing platforms in disasters (natural or man-made). Explains how the… | ||
| Project CapisciAMe | Davide Mulfari | 44m |
CapisciAMe applies machine learning to build highly personalized speech recognition for people with dysarthria, training neural-network models on voice samples… | ||
| Assistive Home Automation to Make Daily Life Easier for People with Disabilities | stefano glabro | 01h 02m |
The talk explains how assistive home automation (domotics) can be designed around users’ needs and remaining abilities to help people with disabilities live… | ||
| School with iPad: an Innovative and Equitable Teaching Approach for Learning and Inclusion | Serena Zanotti | 49m |
Using iPads in school to provide innovative, creative and equitable teaching that supports individualized and collaborative learning for inclusion. It… | ||
| Titles and Subtitles: the Beauty of Accessibility | Dina Riccò | 47m |
A SAV Lab team from Politecnico di Milano examines typography’s communicative role in audiovisual content, treating subtitles not as add-ons but as integral… | ||
| Inclusive Teaching and Accessible Communication through Audio Pens | Andrea Socrati | 41m |
The talk explains using audio pens that record/play audio linked to stickers to design inclusive teaching activities. It shows concrete uses for students with… | ||
| Distance Learning and Inclusion | Alessandro Scardova | 45m |
The talk examines remote teaching and inclusion, focusing on how students with disabilities—particularly blind and deaf learners—were excluded from distance… | ||
| Math by Voice: Opportunities for People with Motor Disabilities in Writing Mathematics | Cristian Bernareggi | 57m |
Presents results from the Polin lab’s “Matematica a Voce” project, which develops an Italian-language speech dictation tool for writing mathematical… | ||
| Redesigning for Accessibility: the Journey of the Gruppo Spaggiari Parma | riccardo agostini | 01h 01m |
Gruppo Spaggiari Parma describes its long-standing accessibility program for its education cloud services and products, covering accessible application design… | ||
| Design2Humanity | Carmelita Ardizzone | 41m |
Design2Humanity explains Design for All (Universal Design) as inclusive, holistic product and service design that supports real individuals rather than an… | ||
| Audio & Spaghetti: A Western Drama, or Developing an Audiogame for the Market | Marianna Murgia, Andrea D'Angelo, Damiano Coppola | 42m |
TriBit Studio presents A Western Drama, a spaghetti-western audiogame developed for the market; the talk covers how the indie Bologna team secured local… | ||
| Novis Gamers | Arianna Ortelli, Marco Andriano, Alessandro Caligaris, Dario Codispoti | 40m |
Novis Gamers presents a fully accessible gaming platform for blind and low-vision players and describes the project end-to-end. It explains the 2021 update… | ||
| Sonification: Communicating Visual Information Through Sound | Mattia Ducci, Sergio Mascetti | 01h 00m |
The talk explains sonification as a nonverbal, sound-based method to convey visual or data features by mapping data properties to audible characteristics… | ||
| #100ThoughtsOnInclusiveDesign | ChiaraCielo Longobardi | 42m |
The talk presents a personal exploration of Inclusive Design using the #the100dayproject as a framework: the presenter sketched daily notes about… | ||
| CLOSING REMARKS | IACOPO MELIO | 43m |
Iacopo Melio gives the closing remarks for Accessibility Days 2021, reflecting on the event’s themes around disability, inclusion, and accessibility. He… | ||
| Virtual Reality for Remote Psychological Support: Opportunities and Barriers | Federica Pallavicini | 55m |
The talk explains how consumer VR headsets (e.g., Oculus Quest 2) are being used to deliver remote psychological support and mental health interventions. It… | ||
| OCR Systems: Bringing Accessibility Where It’s Missing | Stefano Scala | 44m |
Overview of OCR tools from Microsoft and Google’s open-source Tesseract, explaining their capabilities. Demonstrates these OCR systems inside a software that… | ||
| Welcome Address and Keynote | Claudio Celeghin, Mario Barbuto, Roberto Vitali | 01h 18m |
Welcome remarks and keynote covering web and community development at AgID, perspectives from the Italian Union of the Blind and Partially Sighted on… | ||
| Inclusive Tourism and the Smart Personal Experience: A Remote Local Guide That Feels Very Close | Luisa Pavesi, Andrea Panattoni | 49m |
A mobile app called Cityfriend provides remote local guides trained to communicate accessibility and the experience of places to tourists with disabilities or… | ||
| Web Accessibility: Siteimprove and the Experience of the Municipality of Florence | Giuseppe Geresia, Francesca Pessina, Leonardo Ricci | 38m |
Siteimprove presents web accessibility technologies and concrete tools for monitoring digital accessibility as an ongoing optimization process rather than a… | ||
| Working Inclusively on the Web with Joomla! 4.0 | Luca Marzo, Donato Matturro, Vito Disimino | 46m |
Joomla! 4.0’s new accessible back end is presented with a focus on meeting WCAG 2.1 requirements to make the CMS usable for people with disabilities. The talk… | ||
| The Latest from the W3C on Accessibility | Gregorio Pellegrino | 57m |
Updates from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) accessibility working groups, covering recently published accessibility specifications and ongoing work… | ||
| Usability in the Evaluation of Public Sites: WCAG and Heuristics | Jacopo Deyla | 50m |
Explains how Regione Emilia-Romagna evaluates its public websites and services for usability in addition to WCAG accessibility requirements. Describes the… | ||
| Accessibility Lawsuit in 2021 | Michele Lucchini | 43m |
U.S. accessibility litigation surged in 2020–2021 (23% in 2020, ~50% in Q1 2021), driven by repeat plaintiffs and a few law firms; defendants shifted from… | ||
| Legal Design: Accessibility to Rights | Nicole Monte, Andrea Cavalloni | 01h 03m |
An analysis of disability and legal rights in Italy that identifies gaps in the current system and argues for using Legal Design — a human-centered legal… | ||
| DinApp: AVIS Liguria’s Accessible App for Blood Donors | Angelo Lupo, Alessandro Casale, Federica Imperiale, Marco Chirico, Paolo Barone | 01h 11m |
DinApp is a mobile app developed by ManyDesigns for AVIS Liguria to serve blood donors. The project focused on meeting accessibility requirements and… | ||
| Microelectronics and Communication: New Frontiers in Mobility and Personal Autonomy | Marino Attini, Paolo Visintin | 56m |
The talk describes LETIsmart, a microelectronics-based assistive device developed by Marino Attini (a visually impaired UICI leader) with a prototyping company… | ||
| Teaching Online in an Accessible and Effective Way | Alessandra Giampaolo | 42m |
The project redesigns online training by rebuilding content, workflows and platform components instead of adding a separate text-only version. It implements… | ||
| Reflections on Design Aspects in Educational Content | Lucia Iacopini | 50m |
The talk argues that visual styling in educational materials conveys meaning and can hinder accessibility when treated as mere decoration. It shows… | ||
| Invisible Conditions: From Awareness to Inclusion | Serena Caria, Laura De Santis | 41m |
A multidisciplinary team built the website vulvodinia.online to spread accurate information about vulvodynia, a condition affecting about 16% of women but… | ||
| Italian University Websites Put to the Accessibility Test | Andrea Polini, Francesco Barcellona | 59m |
Examines accessibility of Italian university websites during the pandemic, asking how well portals supported inclusive remote teaching and which accessibility… | ||
| The Smart Speaker to Make Your Software’s User Experience More Accessible | Enrico Maioli, Alessandro Violini | 01h 15m |
Designing a voice interface for a business intelligence application using Amazon Alexa to make the software more accessible for users with visual or motor… | ||
| The Superabile Inail Contact Center Experience for Disability | Alessia Pinzello, Giovanni Sansone, Diego Marsicano, Nunziante Esposito, Davide Colella, Daniele Diez, Lorenzo Pierfelice | 46m |
Overview of INAIL’s SuperAbile contact-center ecosystem serving people with disabilities for 20 years, covering its integrated call center, accessible web… | ||
| Inclusive Storytelling | Lorenzo Barbieri | 47m |
The talk explains how to make storytelling more inclusive so stories in presentations reach all audience members. It discusses which parts of a story can… | ||
| Benefit Corporations: What They Are and Why We Became One | Ilaria Mauric | 46m |
Tangible modified its company statute in February 2021 to add explicit common-benefit objectives and a commitment to publish an annual Impact Report, thereby… | ||
| Professional Opportunities and Accessibility: Visual Impairment and the Value of Neurodiversity | Maurizio Molinari, Alessandro Forliani, Gabriella Di Natale | 01h 01m |
Describes Specialisterne’s model for training and placing autistic people into IT jobs, explaining how that company prepares and integrates neurodiverse… | ||
| Home Automation According to Inail: Technical Devices for the Autonomy of Work Accident Victims | Angelo Davalli | 46m |
An overview of INAIL’s Centro Protesi work using assistive technologies and smart-home (domotics) solutions to increase autonomy for workplace injury survivors… | ||
| RAI and the Uffizi Galleries: New Forms of Museum Accessibility | Maria Chiara Andriello, Luca Della Bianca, Anna Soffici, Francesca Sborgi, Andrea Biotti | 01h 05m |
The presentation describes a collaboration between RAI (Rai Pubblica Utilità) and the Gallerie degli Uffizi to make the virtual exhibition “A riveder le… | ||
| Panel: Inclusion & Diversity — Are We Doing It Well? | Flavia Weisghizzi, Giuliana Giusti, Immanuel Casto, Lucia Iacopini, Michele Landolfo | 01h 23m |
Discussion of how inclusion, diversity, accessibility, and disability overlap and differ, using three recent Italian examples: the controversy around the Ddl… | ||
| From the Facebook Team: Accessible Design at Scale | Gillian Terzis | 01h 04m |
Gillian Terzis, Content Design Lead for Accessibility at Facebook, explains how to embed accessibility into processes at a large organization. She covers… | ||
| Welcome Address and Keynote | Lorenzo Baglioni, Emanuele Frontoni, Maurizio Molinari | 01h 26m |
Opening remarks and a keynote on AI and accessibility: presentations include Lorenzo Baglioni (performer and former math teacher), a technical talk titled… | ||
| #IWouldLikeToTakeTheTrainAgain: A Smart Home for Independent Living | Carlo Tempesti, Enrico Cibei, Lucas Frediani | 40m |
A presentation about using smart-home technologies and home automation to support independent living and accessibility. The first part explains the concept and… | ||
| Tour virtuale del Microsoft Inclusive Tech Lab | Solomon Romney, Bryce Johnson | 43m |
The lab shows concrete, battle‑tested accessibility: a hardware platform that replaces custom hacks with the Xbox Adaptive Controller — 19 switch ports… | ||
| Avventure con Microsoft Soundscape (Adventures with Microsoft Soundscape) | Amos Miller, Jarnail Chudge | 01h 06m |
A smartphone app turns headphones into an 3D spatial audio map that calls out streets, intersections and places using Bing and OpenStreetMap data; it runs on… | ||
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