Contact us if you have a presentation you wish to share or would like to be involved in an Ask the Professionals panel session. Please feel free to complete the survey to add or vote on topic ideas.
The ‘Ask the Professional’ events are free for OZeWAI members and have a small cost of $10 for non-members to cover administration and tools to ensure OZeWAI events are accessible.
By joining OZeWAI (from as little as $50 for the Advocacy level) you will have access to a year’s worth of ‘Ask the Professionals’ for free (along with the recordings), and many other benefits. If you wish to discuss assistance with OZeWAI membership, please contact info@ozewai.org.
Online presentations and panels
Current events
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session – 21 March 2025 – Accessibility and Content Management Systems.
- Amber Hinds (Equalize Digital), Mike Gifford (CivicActions) and Ricky Blacker (WPEngine).
Upcoming topics:
- Accessible Content Management and Document Systems
- Continuous accessibility and embedding accessibility in teams
- Advocacy of digital accessibility
- Accessibility leadership
- Accessibility testing topics for mobile, PDFs and ARIA
Ask the Professionals recordings
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session – 14 February 2025 – W3C Accessibility Maturity Model and how organisations are using it to assess and measure accessibility maturity.
- OZeWAI Member Greg Alchin (Accessibility and Inclusion Lead, Service NSW) moderates a panel featuring Sheri Byrne-Haber (disabled) (multi-award winning US accessibility advocate), Brigitta Norton (Ability Works Australia Ltd) and Julia Hine (Australian Taxation Office).
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session – 29 January 2025 – Accessibility and design systems and partners. Join or login to watch the recording.
- OZeWAI Co-Chair Amanda Mace moderated a panel featuring Ross Mullen (CANAXESS), Adam Zerner (Macquarie Bank) and Hidde de Vries (freelance accessibility / design systems consultant).
Past events – 2024
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session YouTube recording – 4 December 2024 – Accessibility legislation and policy – USA timezone.
- OZeWAI Co-chair Bri Norton (AbilityWorks) moderated a panel featuring Dr Ann Kettler (GrackleDocs), Alanna Wallace (DTA) and Susanna Laurin (Funka).
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session YouTube recording – 12 December 2024 – Accessibility legislation and policy – EU/UK timezone.
- OZeWAI committee member Ricky Onsman (TPGi) moderated a panel featuring Daniel Casas (EDF), Bronwen Markham (DTA) and Jim Smith (Atos).
- Introduction to Standard Accessibility Reporting (SAR), YouTube recording – 22 November 2024.
- Dr Chris Law shared the current work SAR is doing in developing industry consensus standard scoring systems for the accessibility of consumer technology products, websites, and Apps. OZeWAI is a supporting partner of SAR. Find out how accessibility professionals can stay up to date, and contribute as part of SAR’s development teams.
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 20 November 2024 – Accessibility Testing.
- OZeWAI member Gian Wild (AccessibilityOz) moderated a panel featuring Co-chair Amanda Mace (GrackleDocs), Hans Hillen (TGPI) and Karl McCabe (BankWest).
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 18 October 2024 – Get Online Week.
- OZeWAI Committee member Ricky Onsman moderated a demonstration by Kylie Pollock and Scott Nixon on how to use the accessibility features of an iPhone and an Android phone to carry out some basic tasks. This demonstration was created for #GetOnlineWeek and was followed by a live Q&A session.
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 27 September 2024
- OZeWAI Co-chair Bri Norton moderated a panel on the topic of Accessible training and courses, featuring Dax Castro (Chax Training and Consulting), Gian Wild (AccessibilityOz) and Russ Weakley (Intopia).
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 16 August 2024 – Topic is Accessibility for small/medium businesses and not-for-profits.
- OZeWAI Co-chair Amanda Mace (GrackleDocs) moderated a panel featuring David Spriggs (InfoXchange), Frances Riggs (GetAboutAble) and Liz Leigh (Content Design Hub).
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 26 July 2024 – Topic: Accessibility careers in UX design.
- OZeWAI Co-chair Bri Norton moderated a panel featuring Christopher Land (Oracle), Claire Webber (Intopia) and Thea Schmertmann (Penny).
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 4 June 2024 – Topic: Neurodivergence and Accessibility.
- OZeWAI Co-chair Amanda Mace (GrackleDocs) moderated a panel featuring Lisa Seeman-Horwitz (facilitator of the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force at W3C), Rose McAlister (Aquent) and Rosie Putland (Modality.co).
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 7 May 2024 – Topic is about Accessible ICT Procurement.
- OZeWAI co-chair Bri Norton will moderate a panel featuring Andrew Normand (University of Melbourne), Callum McMenamin (Web Standards NZ Government Chief Digital Officer) and Jaunita George (Navy Federal Credit Union).
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 18 April 2024 – Topic is about accessibility in Gaming and Virtual Reality.
- OZeWAI Co-chair Amanda Mace (GrackleDocs) will moderated a panel featuring Mark Barlet (Able Gamers) Dr Ronny Andrade Parra and Shikha N. Dwivedi (Centre for Inclusive Design).
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 26 March 2024
- OZeWAI co-chair Bri Norton moderateed a panel session on Inclusive Research with Irith Williams, Ricki Spencer and Yasmine Gray (GetAboutAble)
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 15 February 2024
- Moderated by OZeWAI co-chair Amanda Mace (KrackleDocs) on Standards. Panelists: Andrew Arch (Intopia), Rachael Bradley Montgomery Ph.D. (Library of Congress) and Dr Scott Hollier (Centre for Accessibility)
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 23 January 2024
- Moderated by Bri Norton (OZeWAI Co-chair). Panelists: Derek Featherstone, Gerry Neustatl and Sean Murphy
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 4 December 2023
- Moderated by Bri Norton (OZeWAI Co-chair). Panelists: Adam Cooper, Geoff White and Greg Alchin
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 2 November 2023
- Moderated by Amanda Mace (AbleDocs). Panelists: Kylie Pollock, Scott Nixon and Tess Herbert
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 5 October 2023
- Moderated by Bri Norton (OZeWAI Co-chair). Panelists: Chris Law (StandartARI), Rosemary Allsopp (Web Directions) and Julia Svaganovic (GetAboutAble)
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 20 September 2023
- Moderated by Maka Kama (Alliance ICT). Panelists: Amanda Mace (AbleDocs), Dr Manisha Amin (Centre for Inclusive Design) and Léonie Watson (TetraLogical)
- OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session, YouTube recording – 10 August 2023
- Moderated by Amanda Mace (AbleDocs). Panelists: Andrew Downie, Ricky Onsman and Ross Mullen
Workshops
- OZeWAI Accessibility Policy workshops