DiCon or Digital Inclusion Conference is organized by the City of New York, our sponsors and community partners. Our mission is to educate digital professionals on accessibility and inclusion. This year DiCon is brought to you by the NYC Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, Project Access for All and Disability Unite! Date, Time and
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Marty Watts
Director of Sales, Aira Marty enables businesses to be more accessible by helping them to provide Aira as a service to their customers, constituents, employees and/or travelers. He is working to create an interconnected network of businesses around the world that provide access to Aira just like they would free wifi. For the last two
Yng-Ru Chen
CMO, Snark.art Yng-Ru Chen is the CMO of Snark.art and the founder of Praise Shadows Art Partners. She works closely with the co-founders at Snark.art on strategy, artist and curator relations, and marketing. Snark.art collaborates closely with artists to harness blockchain’s potential as a creative medium.
Kinetic Light
Kinetic Light is a project-based disability art collective made up of Alice Sheppard (choreographer, dancer), Laurel Lawson (collaborator, dancer) and Michael Maag (projection and lighting designer). Kinetic Light creates, performs, and teaches at the intersections of disability, dance, and race. The collective’s rigorous investment in the histories, cultures, and artistic work of disabled people and
Conference Presentation Materials
Keynotes Keynote Presentation: John Kirkwood Sessions Session 1A: Creating Accessible Media Content Presenters: Jon Novick and Sharon Winberg Session 1B: Reaching a Multilingual Audience Presenters: Laura Godfrey and Kenneth Lo Session 2A: Case Study: Inclusion and Accessibility throughout the Product Lifecycle Presenters: Ashley Cortez, Hilina Mohammed, Song Hia, Devon Hirth, Kim Peng Session 2B: Build
Accessibility Toolkit
View presenter materials from the 2018 NYC Digital Inclusion and Accessibility Conference. There’s a lot to remember when it comes to creating accessible digital experiences for New Yorkers. This toolkit, which is supplementary to the Accessibility section on this website, is designed so you can find targeted information depending on the type of project you’re
Conference Speakers
Keynote Speakers Carmelyn P. Malalis Commissioner Malalis is Chair and Commissioner of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, following more than a decade in private practice as an advocate for employees’ rights. Previously, she was a partner at Outten & Golden LLP where she co-founded and co-chaired its Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Conference Committee
The conference is hosted by the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities and NYC Digital, and organized by a group of cross-agency volunteers. AJ Favors, Department of Youth & Community Development Carl Avidano, Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications Chi Nguyen, NYC Digital Darnell Sessoms, Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity Jennifer Shaoul, Human Resources Administration
Conference Activities
In addition to the scheduled programming, the following activities will take place throughout the day. Accessibility Medics Meet with an accessibility specialist 1:1 to discuss questions specific to your work, such as how to make your website more accessible, how to incorporate accessibility testing into your process, and how to create accessible and inclusive content
Conference Accessibility
Accessible Event Practices This event aims to showcase best practices in accessible event planning. To that end: the space is wheelchair accessible, we will provide accessible digital versions of all printed and projected materials, and speakers will use visual description and people-first language. We will also provide CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) and ASL (American