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Accessible Technology

Events

The Digital Accessibility Calendar includes ATS and campus-wide events related to digital accessibility.

Monthly UW Web Accessibility and Usability Meetup

These monthly meetups provide an opportunity for UW web developers and designers to discuss accessibility and usability issues in a relaxed, casual setting, and provide friendly feedback on one another’s web projects. We encourage you to bring your accessibility questions or just join us to see what others are working on.

  • Audience: UW web developers and designers
  • Schedule: 4th Tuesday of each month, 11:00am – Noon, on Zoom.
  • Get signed up: The agenda and Zoom details are posted on the AccessibleWeb email list a few days prior to each meetup.  If you would like to attend and are not a subscriber to this list, please contact us by submitting our Accessibility Consultation Form (requires a UW NetID) or send an email to help@uw.edu and we’ll send you the link.

Collaborative Accessibility Problem-Solving (CAPS) Meetup (Monthly)

Join colleagues for this informal networking series with other faculty support partners across the UW system for collaborative problem-solving. We’ll talk about challenges we face and how we can support faculty in accessibility efforts in the coming academic year.

  • Audience: Faculty support staff across the UW community, instructional designers, communications staff, learning technology staff, administrative staff, librarians
  • Schedule: 4th Tuesday of each month, 3:00 – 4:00pm
  • Get signed up:  Stay tuned for more information!

Digital Accessibility Liaisons Community of Practice (Quarterly)

Join the Digital Accessibility Liaisons, a Community of Practice of colleagues who are excited to learn more about digital accessibility and to build their own skills so they can share what they learn with their units. Among other activities, they meet as a group several times per year for training and discussion.

  • Audience: Open to everyone in the UW community, all skill levels.

Schedule

Quarterly, on the following dates in AY 2025-2026:

  • Oct. 22—2:00 to 3:30 pm
  • Jan. 21—10:00-11:30 am
  • April 22—1:00-2:30 pm

Get signed up

Consult the Digital Accessibility Calendar for registration links for any of these meetings.

To join the Liaisons CoP, simply send an email to itaccessliaisons@uw.edu requesting access, and you will be added to the Digital Accessibility Liaisons workspace in Microsoft Teams.

For more information, see the Digital Accessibility Liaisons page.

Workshops and Training

Daybreak Accessibility POP (Progress over Perfection) Sessions (Autumn)

Feel like you have no time for accessibility training? POP sessions are 60-minute interactive workshops, each focusing on one particular accessibility topic or skill. Each session consists of instruction (15 min.); practice and question time (20-30 min.); and a wrap up with action item (15 min.). This autumn, why not start the day with a cup of coffee and some accessibility training?

Audience: All members of the UW community, regardless of skill level

Schedule: Each Wednesday in October, on Zoom from 8-9:00 am

Course Accessibility Lunch & Learns (Monthly)

Join us for monthly Lunch & Learns and hear special guests from across the UW community talk about various tools and topics related to course accessibility! There is something for everyone in this year’s schedule!

Audience: Instructors at all levels, TAs, Faculty Support Staff, the UW community

Schedule: The first Tuesday of the month, on Zoom from noon to 1:00 pm.

Accessible Technology Special Events and Recordings

We currently have no new webinars scheduled, but video recordings and links to resources from past webinars are available on the Webinar Series Archives page.