Events

Let’s get this out of the way: CSUN 2020 was weird. As news of the COVID-19 pandemic flew around the world, CSUN attendee cancellations rolled in. Sponsors, companies, individuals, the rollcall was long and illustrious. As other large gatherings were postponed, cancelled, or put online, everyone waited for the inevitable…

We’re very excited that six members of our team will soon be making the trek from the land down under to the 35th CSUN Assistive Technology Conference in Anaheim, California! The conference provides an inclusive setting for researchers, practitioners, exhibitors, end users, speakers and other participants to share knowledge and…

Today is the International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD), a day observed globally every December 3rd since 1992. It’s an important occasion to us here at Intopia, given our focus on creating an inclusive digital world. The theme for this year is ‘Promoting the participation of people with disabilities…

One of our team members at Intopia, Renata, who manages our Intopia Connect service, has been involved in the Pacific Connect events to promote digital accessibility and assistive technology in the Pacific. Renata shares some of her reflections here. Reflections on Pacific Connect My involvement with Pacific Connect began in…

What’s in this article? Meetups in General Accessibility Meetups Australian Digital Accessibility Meetups Some Notes Sydney Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meetup, February 2019. Photo by @OhMyDeity Meetups in General Meetups are big, no doubt about it. If you can think of a niche interest, you can probably find a…

Elizabeth Rosenzweig founded World Usability Day to raise awareness of user-centred design, and she hopes that one day it will become part of the United Nations official list of days. Of course, every day is a great day to make products, services and systems (including websites) easier for everyone to…

I attended the three-day A11y Camp extravaganza in Melbourne in October – the biggest and best they’ve run to date. Here’s my round-up. Wednesday: An awesome WCAG 2.1 workshop Disclaimer: I ran the half-day WCAG 2.1 workshop on Wednesday afternoon. 😉 I spent a few hours translating the new WCAG…

Inclusive Design 24 (also known as #ID24) returns on Thursday 11 October and Intopia is proud to be, for the first time, a partner of the event! What is #ID24? Inclusive Design 24 is literally twenty-four hours of talks about accessibility and inclusive design, back to back, featuring presenters from…

This Tuesday, the very first World Interaction Design Day (IxDD) will be held. The collaboration between the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) and Adobe will see more than 60 events happen around the world, all with the aim of showing how interaction design improves the human condition. The theme for the…

The CSUN Assistive Technology Conference is over for another year, and speakers, participants and attendees have scattered back to their various parts of the world. With an event like this, it’s always good to take a moment to reflect on what took place, how it went down and what people…

We’re excited that three of our team, Sarah Pulis, Andrew Arch and Chris Pycroft will shortly be making the trek from the land down under to head to the 33rd CSUN Assistive Technology Conference in San Diego, California. It’s our third time at CSUN, and while we’re excited about meeting…

We’re back from the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference 2017, a very busy week of meetings, workshops, presentations and fun times in San Diego. It was really exciting to be part of a massive group of people that are passionate about accessibility and assistive technology. Most common comments after people found…