[Athen] Early-bird Registration for Accessing Higher Ground 2021 extended to Oct. 1.

[Howard Kramer]

Dear ATHEN Members (& listserv participants):



Early-bird Registration for the onsite 2021 Accessing Higher Ground
Conference has been extended to Oct. 1.



*ATHEN members also receive a **10% discount off registration fees
<https://accessinghigherground.org/pricing/#Member_Discounts>* for the
onsite conference.



*Keynote Speaker*: Dr. Jaipreet Virdi, historian of medicine, technology,
and disability. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History
at the University of Delaware and the author of Hearing Happiness: Deafness
Cures in History.



View her Science Friday Interview on her book Hearing Happiness
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJWhpB0jMR0>



Highlights from this year’s event:



(titles link to session description)



·       PDF Accessibility – Train-the-Trainer
<https://accessinghigherground.org/pdf-accessibility-train-the-trainer-2/>,
Rob Haverty, Senior Program Manager, Accessibility, Adobe

·       How toDevelop an Efficient Accessibility Testing Process
<https://accessinghigherground.org/how-to-develop-an-efficient-accessibility-testing-process/>,
Lyssa Prince, Oklahoma State University

·       Perspectives on Teaching Accessibility
<https://accessinghigherground.org/perspectives-on-teaching-accessibility/>,
Sarah Horton, University of Southampton

·       Create Accessible Documents in Word, PowerPoint, & Excel (WebAIM
Certificate)
<https://accessinghigherground.org/create-accessible-documents-in-word-powerpoint-excel/>,
George Joeckel, Web Accessibility Specialist, Utah State University / WebAIM

·       Understandingthe ARIA Authoring Practices and Screen Readers
<https://accessinghigherground.org/aria-foundations-patterns-and-components-for-improving-web-accessibility-development/>,
Dennis Lembree, Director of Accessibility, Diamond

·       Holistic Accessibility Across the Penn State University
<https://accessinghigherground.org/holistic-accessibility-across-the-penn-state-university/>,
Binky Lush, Manager, Penn State University Libraries

·       Streamlining Captioning Services: Lessons Learned From the Pandemic
<https://accessinghigherground.org/streamlining-captioning-services-lessons-learned-from-the-pandemic/>,
Sarah Herpst, Accessibility Analyst , Indiana University

·      How the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Resolves
Digital Accessibility Investigations
<https://accessinghigherground.org/how-the-department-of-educations-office-for-civil-rights-resolves-digital-accessibility-investigations/>,
Mary Lou Mobley, National Disability Expert, U.S. Dept. of Education

And over 80 more

*View complete agenda <https://accessinghigherground.org/schedule-2021/>* or
*register now. <https://cvent.me/7yOMKW>*


More Information



If you have any questions, contact Howard Kramer at 720-351-8668 or at the
email below.



e-mail: hkramer at ahead.org

Conference URL: http://accessinghigherground.org/

-- 
Regards,
Howard

Howard Kramer
Conference Coordinator
Accessing Higher Ground
303-492-8672
cell: 720-351-8668

Sign up to access the recordings from the *2020 Accessing Higher
Ground Conference
<https://accessinghigherground.org/postconferenceresources2021/>*  and for AHG
2021 'Watch Parties
<https://accessinghigherground.org/postconferenceresources2021/>.'


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Complete program information and registration is open for AHEAD's full
line-up of Spring 2021 webinars
<https://www.ahead.org/events-programming/webinars/2021-spring-webinars>.



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