#A11yhack Follow-Up: Hacking Accessibility

Join us for the follow-up to our successful A11yhack (http://18f.github.io/hackathons/a11yhack/) event, which we co-organized with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, 18F, Data.gov, and NIDRR back in March (more on that here (https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/04/07/icymi-a11yhack-accessibility-awareness-hackathon/) and here (https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/04/16/improving-accessibility-government-websites)).

Learn about the event (including our "policy hack" with accessibility experts), see demos of the great a11y projects built at the event, and hear from experts in accessibility policy about what it means to make tech "accessible by design."

SCHEDULE (UPDATED):

6:30 – Arrive/Mingle/Drinks

6:45 – Welcome

6:50 – Recap of #a11yhack event

7:00 – Special Presentation - Sai Prasad, Intel

• Demo of Professor Stephen Hawking's new, open-source communications system (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2014/12/02/new-intel-created-system-offers-professor-stephen-hawking-ability-to-better-communicate-with-the-world), developed by Intel

7:15 - Demos from the hackathon

• 508 Playbook

• Video CAPTCHA

7:30 – "Accessibility by Design" Panel

• Alok Doshi, Technology and Innovation Advisor, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, Federal Communications Commission

• Jonathan Lazar, Director, Undergraduate Program in Information Systems, Towson University

• Anil Lewis, ‎Executive Director, Jernigan Institute, National Federation of the Blind

• Bob Williams, Senior Advisor, Social Security Administration

• Jameson Dempsey, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP (moderator)

8:30 – Fin