Accessibility Days 2023
2023-05-18..2023-05-19
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[Accessibility Days 2021, Accessibility Days 2023, Accessibility Days 2024, Accessibility Days 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday Keynote | Sauro Cesaretti e Stefano Ottaviani, Arianna Punzi, Camilla Miglia, Irene Ranzato, Alessandra Locatelli, Federico Bassani, Roberto Scano, Marino Attini, Antonio Cotura, Riccardo Basso, Nicolò Volpato | 01h 31m |
A keynote for Accessibility Days 2023 introduces an event about digital accessibility and disability aimed at developers, designers, makers, content creators… | ||
| Let’s Debunk 5 Myths About Accessibility | Antonio Giovanni Schiavone | 46m |
The talk identifies and debunks five common myths about digital accessibility, distinguishing accurate information from misinformation. It explains accessible… | ||
| The Country’s Design System and the Responsibility to Design Public Interfaces | Daniele Tabellini, Fabrizio Caccavello | 46m |
Daniele Tabellini and Fabrizio Caccavello report on updates to Italy’s national design system, describing the principles and tools used to build usable… | ||
| ICT Accessibility: The Standards of the Future | Roberto Scano | 44m |
The talk outlines current and upcoming legal and technical standards that require ICT products and services to be accessible, explaining how evolving… | ||
| PNRR 1.4.2: Automatic Monitoring of Public Administration Websites Accessibility | Claudio Celeghin, Fabio Paternò | 35m |
A joint AGID–CNR HIIS project to build by 2025 a SaaS platform that automatically monitors web accessibility of Italian public administration websites. It… | ||
| EU Accessibility Act and Legislation: Updates, Transpositions, Developments and Challenges | Haydée Longo | 56m |
A legal-focused session reviewing the European Accessibility Act and recent digital accessibility rules. It explains what the Act requires, its expected… | ||
| Spritz with Scano, Caccavello and Cesaretti | Sauro Cesaretti, Fabrizio Caccavello, Roberto Scano | 48m |
Three Italian accessibility experts (Roberto Scano, Fabrizio Caccavello, Sauro Cesaretti) hold a public Ask-the-Expert Q&A on accessibility topics, with live… | ||
| Accessibility of Communication in the Public Broadcaster RAI: Perspectives and Developments | Maria Chiara Andriello | 46m |
Rai Accessibilità describes its work designing and producing accessible audiovisual formats and models for the public broadcaster RAI, reviewing current… | ||
| Keynote Friday | Caterina Lombardo | 57m |
Accessibility Days is an event for developers, designers, makers, content creators and publishers focused on digital accessibility and disability. It covers… | ||
| Infographics: Useful Tips for Representing Data Creatively and Accessibly | MICHELA DI STEFANO | 34m |
Shows how to create accessible infographics using Adobe Illustrator, demonstrating specific features and techniques in Illustrator to make graphics usable… | ||
| Automated Accessibility Tools: Pros and Cons, Potential and Pitfalls | Sauro Cesaretti, Barbara Leporini, Dajana Gioffrè, Jacopo Deyla, Davide Spizzichino, Michele Lucchini | 56m |
Panel discussion about using AI and automated tools for digital accessibility, examining benefits, limits, and risks; participants name the technologies… | ||
| United for Accessibility of Audiovisual Media Content | Maria Chiara Andriello, Simone Delicato, Lars Bosselmann, Elena Di Giovanni, Irene Ranzato, Simona Magale | 01h 01m |
Panelists from RAI Pubblica Utilità, SKY Italia and TIMVision describe efforts to improve audiovisual accessibility across Europe by expanding audio… | ||
| Accessible Development: Customize Only When Necessary | Fabrizio Caccavello, Sauro Cesaretti | 44m |
The talk examines building web and mobile apps with highly customized UI components and warns that creating bespoke controls instead of using native or widely… | ||
| Google Workspace: Tools for Accessibility | Giuseppe Margiotta | 40m |
Overview of accessibility features built into Google Workspace, describing tools designed for people with disabilities that are also useful for all users. The… | ||
| Creating Accessible Content | Michele Lucchini | 38m |
How to create web and native-app content that improves accessibility by focusing beyond design and structure. Covers practical content considerations and… | ||
| “Listen” and “Speak in LIS” | Andrea Rubera, Carla Cioffi | 40m |
TIMVISION provides selected cartoons with both audio descriptions and an Italian Sign Language (LIS) interpreter so blind, low-vision, deaf, or cognitively… | ||
| Accessibility 360: Research and Technology to Improve Independent Living | Marino Attini, Barbara Leporini, Nunziante Esposito, Francesco Cusati, Giuseppe Fornaro | 47m |
The session presents accessibility research and technology for independent living for blind and partially sighted people. It covers a new 200-page guidebook… | ||
| WordPress Plugins and Accessibility | Stefano Minoia | 43m |
The talk examines accessibility issues specific to WordPress plugins: how many plugins lack accessible interfaces, how users currently have to install and test… | ||
| Joomla: An Accessible CMS | Nicola Galgano | 25m |
Joomla 4 meets W3C guidelines (WCAG 2.1 and ATAG 2.0) and provides an accessible backend so anyone, with or without disabilities, can create, manage, and… | ||
| Achieving Inclusive Excellence with Cineca: A11Y by Design and Testing as Best Practice | DENIS BONAMICI, GIUSEPPE COCEVARI, Gabriele Bonomo | 40m |
Cineca describes implementing accessibility-by-design using a design system plus accessibility and usability QA testing for its web apps. The talk covers… | ||
| Accessibility in the Enterprise: Salesforce’s Approach | Federica Terrenzio | 30m |
Salesforce describes a company-wide accessibility program with a central accessibility office (created 2019) that defines strategy while product, engineering… | ||
| PDF/UA: The Standard for Accessible Graphics | Damiano Viscardi | 45m |
PDF/UA (UNI ISO 14289) is presented as the international standard for making PDF documents accessible so editorial and commercial graphic content can be used… | ||
| Intesa Sanpaolo Accessible by Design: From Design System to Assessment | Alfredo Politano, Daniele Del Gaudio, Francesca Abellonio | 39m |
Intesa Sanpaolo describes integrating accessibility across the full product lifecycle by adopting an accessible-by-design framework and Design System called… | ||
| Accessibility and User Experience: The Importance of Knowing the End User’s World | Silvia Mattia, Maurizio Amedeo Uliano | 36m |
Covers why accessibility experts need more than WCAG knowledge: they must understand assistive technologies, how those tools interpret code, and the… | ||
| Accessibility in Data Visualizations: Two Case Studies | Ilenia Baronio, Caterina Amato | 38m |
Two case studies address accessibility in data visualizations: one shows usability testing with three blind users where Google Slides exports to PDF read well… | ||
| Artificial Intelligence and Disability: A Brief Analysis of Some Concrete Cases | Mariafrancesca Guadalupi, Roberta Crespan | 34m |
Overview of current AI technologies—specifically ChatGPT, the metaverse, and avatars—and how each can benefit people with disabilities or where they need… | ||
| Inclusive Design Is Better Design | Christina Mallon, Lorena Del Mastro | 39m |
Microsoft’s inclusive design approach considers diverse user needs and abilities and applies specific principles to products, services, and company culture… | ||
| Breaking Communication Barriers to Enable Equal Social Participation for Deaf People | Vittorio Corsini, Rosario De Caro | 52m |
Regional ENS Lazio presents two services to improve communication access for deaf people: OPEN trains deaf participants to produce sign-language news in a… | ||
| Digital Accessibility: The First Artificial Human That Knows Italian Sign Language | Alessio Di Renzo, Cristiana Sanalitro | 31m |
An Italian project builds an AI-driven virtual avatar that understands and responds in Italian Sign Language (LIS) by analyzing a user’s facial expressions and… | ||
| Project Reading Ancient Greek: Blindness, School and Research | Silvia Gianferrari, Stefano Del Furia | 38m |
A project created speech synthesis for Ancient Greek and produced prototypes of concatenative Greek voices, a bilingual Greek–Italian voice, an accessible… | ||
| Innovating Accessibility for Blind/Partially Sighted People: An Autonomous Droid for Orientation and Running | Marcello Farina, Emanuele Lettieri, Massimiliano Naccarato, Francesco Cusati | 51m |
Presentation of the BUDD-e project, a Politecnico di Milano–funded effort to build an autonomous guide robot for blind and partially sighted people to use in… | ||
| INCLUD: The Tool That Evaluates Accessibility and Inclusion of Buildings | Erica Isa Mosca | 31m |
The talk explains Universal Design and Design for All evaluation methods for the built environment, reviewing existing principles and assessment approaches. It… | ||
| Digital Applications for the Benefit of Everyone’s Working Life | Roberto Milano, Davide De Angelis, Angelo Rosiello | 49m |
A demonstration of a voice-and-NLP digital assistant that accepts spoken updates (for example, saying “I got married” triggers the full administrative… | ||
| Accessibility and Shopping Malls | Pier Luigi De Masi, Andrea Piras, Roberto Zoia, Letizia Cantini, Francesca Sbianchi, Cristian Catania | 46m |
Presentation about an accessibility project carried out at the Gran Fiume shopping center, describing practical measures and design actions to improve… | ||
| Accessibility and Design: Application Areas of Accessible Communication Design | Dina Riccò | 41m |
The talk maps where communication designers should apply accessible design across sectors like publishing, audiovisual, packaging and signage, tracing how… | ||
| Visible Cities: Inclusive Tourism in Art Towns | Giorgio Guardi, Cristina Di Giorgio, Claudia Sonego | 46m |
This presentation examines inclusive tourism in art cities, focusing on improving incoming tourism for people with disabilities by designing tailored guided… | ||
| SpeechMate: A System for Dictating Mathematics | Tiziana Armano, Carola Manolino, Anna Capietto, Cristian Bernareggi, Mattia Ducci | 45m |
SpeechMate is a system from the Polin lab (University of Turin) that enables dictation of mathematical expressions in Italian to help people with upper-limb… | ||
| How to Teach Accessibility in a University Course | Ombretta Gaggi | 33m |
A university web technologies course at the University of Padova integrates web accessibility as a core requirement: students must build an accessible website… | ||
| Neurodiversity: Talking About, Talking To, Talking With | Eleonora Marocchini | 43m |
The talk explains neurodiversity in the context of teaching, training, and corporate communication, distinguishing between talking about, to, and with… | ||
| The Inclusive Lesson: Essential for Some, Useful for Everyone | Iacopo Balocco | 44m |
Covers how to design inclusive lessons using Universal Design for Learning principles, explaining concrete teaching strategies to present content at varying… | ||
| Rediscovering an Old Technology: Symbols at The House of Lights | Debora Vitali | 37m |
The talk explains how La Casa delle Luci uses pictogram symbols as a written transcription of Italian Sign Language (LIS) to support deaf children with… | ||
| BlindTag System: Direction and Distance to Landmarks via Phone | Roberto Gozzani, Gianluca Casalino | 42m |
Presentation of the BlindTag system for smartphones that provides direction and distance to tagged landmarks; the talk demonstrates the system with practical… | ||
| Skills at Stake | Paolino Gianturco | 27m |
An advocacy group ran a 25-hour online course (June–Oct 2022) with four modules—theory, didactics, ethics, and practical game-based activities—using digital… | ||
| Accessibility Testing of a Digital Support Channel: A Concrete Case on Chatbots | Esteban Franco, Carlo Pierazzoli, Imma Di Lecce | 35m |
An introductory session describing an accessibility audit of a customer-support chatbot embedded in websites. It explains how Auticon evaluated the chatbot as… | ||
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