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• A11y Bytes is now a 3-hour event
• Speakers, presentations and schedule for A11y Bytes 2020 available

A11y Bytes 2020

A11y Bytes extended to 3 hours

We had such a fantastic response to our call for proposals that we decided to extend A11y Bytes from 2 hours to 3 hours! Here are the updated times for our Australia and New Zealand regions. The event is on Thursday 21 May.

• 2 pm – 5 pm AWST (Perth)
• 3.30 pm – 6.30 pm ACST (Adelaide)
• 4 pm – 7 pm AEST (Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane)
• 6 pm – 9 pm NZST (New Zealand)

Not in one of these regions? You can use the timezone converter to add your own city or timezone and find out the equivalent time. We have already added 4 pm AEST to the page which is the start of the event.

All presentations will also be recorded so you can watch them after the event. The event will also be live captioned.

We'd like to thank everyone who put in a proposal. We're sad we couldn't say yes to everyone.

A11y Bytes speakers

We are very excited by our speaker line-up. Because A11y Bytes is online this year, we have presenters from Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK and India!

Visit our A11y Bytes speakers page for a short description about each presentation.

First hour

• Put it on my TAB by Glen Walker
• Preparing for accessibility by Bill Bennet
• How to train your dragons! by Michelle Chu
• Online communications access challenges for Australians with a hearing loss during COVID-19 by David Brady

Second hour

• Let’s get physical: First impressions of the Microsoft Adaptive Controller by Scott Cabot
• PIAF: How to think about cognitive accessibility by Alastair Somerville
• Experience of visually impaired users listening to instructions on the web! by Priti Rohra
• 10 easy things you can do to be accessible by Rachel Morgan-Trimmer

Third hour

• Media accessibility at the ABC by Gerry Neustatl
• The best of both worlds by Julie Grundy
• ​How to build accessible UI components by Russ Weakley
• Last presentation TBC

How to join

Just a quick reminder about how to join. No sign-up or registration is required this year. All sessions are streamed live on the A11y Bytes YouTube channel. Sessions will be live captioned.

A11y Camp 2019 videos online

A reminder that all the video from A11y Camp 2019 online so you can warm up for Bytes and Camp 2020 by watching our presentations from last year.

Keep up-to-date

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