TechAccess, Oklahoma’s Premier Digital Accessibility Conference, will return for its annual edition on April 18 -20, 2023.

TechAccess Oklahoma is a free conference held by Oklahoma ABLE Tech to champion best practices in creating accessible digital content. If you create any form of digital content, from online courses to learning documents, best practices in accessibility equip you to serve the entire scope of your market.

Whether you work in video production, editorial or web development, join the free virtual event from April 18 – 20 to ensure everyone in your audience base can access your content.

Talks we’re excited about.

• Most Accessibility Learning is Broken: Let’s Fix It Together with Corbb O’Connor
• Small Shifts to Improve Digital Accessibility with Kate DeForest
• Getting Image Descriptions Right with Geoff Freed

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Win amazing prizes!

TechAccess Oklahoma is giving away a11y swag (books, t-shirts, and more) to select conference guests! Join the free conference and take the survey to qualify.

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Looking to explore accessibility best practices across team functions in your organizations? Find answers to all your questions about accessible digital products and more at Axe-con 2023.

Axe-con provides insights into the critical role key players across functions like legal, design, management, product, etc., play in building accessible digital experiences.

Talks at the conference will feature case studies from enterprise companies leading in large-scale accessibility efforts and best practices and updates from technology leaders worldwide.

Attendance at the conference is free, and you can use your attendance towards continuing education (CE) towards IAAP certification.

Talks we’re excited about

• Ageism in Interfaces with Alex Tait
• Redesigning for Cognitive Ease with Alyssa Panetta
• Accessibility Maturity Models with Jonathan Thurston and James Thurston

Full program schedule

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Registration is free! Sign up to access the live sessions and on-demand recordings of 60 sessions.

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We provide inclusive website design solutions that welcome your audiences to engage with your content, products, and services. Bring the best of front-end development to your projects with our web standards-based, usable, accessible, and inclusive work.

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Most organizations we meet encounter challenges across the wide breadth of skillsets and expertise that are required to successfully execute digital projects. Sometimes this can have a compounding effect that radically undermines team efforts, as teams move across a series of project phases that each require uniques skillsets to execute. In other cases, achieving digital excellence may just be a path to becoming more efficient and effective in meeting organizational goals and ensuring even greater success in your role.

Let’s take a look at where this complexity comes from and why we’ve designed our services around closing gaps between phases and enhancing your team’s processes and skills during each phase.

Knowledge and capability needs to run wide and deep

Digital is complicated. Many steps and many different levels of expertise are needed in order to execute effectively. Each failure or issue in process, methodology, or outcome across your efforts increasingly undermines every effort that follows.

Core areas of expertise required to successfully meet digital objectives include:

1. Research
2. Product strategy
3. Interaction design
4. System architecture
5. Build
6. Launch and promotion
7. Continuous improvement

Exploring these areas in more detail

A typical digital project will include this depth of requirements and the skillsets required to execute effectively across these standards of practice.

1. Research

• Internal (organizational)
• External (customers)

2. Product strategy

• Jobs-to-be-done and outcomes for personas
• Cohorts and behavioural groups
• Device and platform support (hardware vs software; mobile, desktop, other)
• Internal systems and staff interactions
• Content requirements
• Promotion and communications (including marketing, advertising, social, and SEO)
• Passive vs interactive
• KPI definition
• Resourcing
• Risks

3. Interaction design

• Information architecture
• Interface design
• Usability and accessibility
• Automation and interactions
• Context of use (adaptive and contextual IA and content)
• Onboarding, progress and frequency
• States

4. System architecture

• Privacy
• Security
• Data management
• Technology platform
• KPIs and Behavioural tracking

5. Build

• Backend
• APIs
• Front-end
• QA

6. Launch and promotion

• Awareness
• Growth
• Validation

7. Continuous improvement

• Behavioural tracking
• KPI tracking
• Review (KPI review, behavioural tracking review, user testing, etc)
• Iterate/Experiment
• Repeat (review, iterate, experiment)

It’s difficult for any one team to bring this level of expertise to the table. That’s why we’ve built our consulting practice on helping you learn and execute in these areas.

Determinants of organizational success

Ultimately, success is determined by your organization’s ability to:

1. Define an effective roadmap, meeting organizational and market needs.
2. Execute at a high level across all stages of product and service delivery.
3. Plan, scope, and evaluate systems that can make a measurable impact.
4. Continuously improve across customer experience and service delivery efforts.

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