Strategies to drive awareness and engagement at a large Enterprise - Capital One

​All down to 'branding' and 'marketting' to raise awareness from t-shirts to flying pig stress balls - very disappointing!

Avoid partial conformance: make vendor hosted applications accessible - Audio Eye

Fabulous talk! Taking 80 compliance issues and a lost legal battle to 100% compliance in one go by  pro-active consulting with designer. Very much recognised our champion model.

WEDNESDAY 

Accessibility and Design - Where productivity and philosophy meet - Target

Was hoping this would be about establishing collaborative partnerships but it was fixing problems with Javascript, which left me feeling a bit uneasy!

Words Matter; writing for everyone - Alllison Ravenhall

​Excellent talk and favourite take away slides...

FRIDAY 

'Upgoer 5' challenge:

http://xkcd.com/1133

http://wwwexplainxkcd.com/1133

Sidestepping ableist language for mental illness and disabilities - Paciello Group

most thought provoking talk, had everyone tripping up over language for the rest of the stay!

FRIDAY 

'Crazy'; 'insane'; 'lame'; 'turn a blind eye'; 'crippled by..' - the INTENTION doesn't matter ...

http://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html