The 33rd CSUN Assistive Technology Conference will take place March 21-23. It has long been recognized as the largest conference on digital accessibility and assistive technology (AT) held in the world. Industry leaders in accessibility and AT attend as presenters, sponsors, exhibitors, and attendees. Top technology providers, from Microsoft and Google to Adobe and Facebook, will present on their latest developments in accessible technology.

State of Minnesota staff are also participating in two presentations:

• Develop, Test, Deploy: Accessible Templates for an Entire State. Jennie Delisi, Kim Wee, and Jay Wyant tell the story of how state agencies collaborated to create accessible email and Word templates, then made them readily available to all state employees. We have posted the /mnit/assets/csun-presentation-develop-test-deploy-2018_tcm38-330871.pdfpresentation slides (PDF), the /mnit/assets/document-template-accessibility-testing-instructions_tcm38-330873.pdfdocument template accessibility testing instructions (PDF), a /mnit/assets/document-accessibility-testing-report_tcm38-330872.docxsample report you can use (Word), and the /mnit/assets/template-deployment-instructions_tcm38-330874.pdfIT template deployment instructions (PDF).
• Strategic Approaches for Buying Accessible Technology. The US Department of Labor's Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology, Texas, and Minnesota jointly present on a framework for buying accessible technology and services. This presentation will be available here.

Want to follow the conference? Check out the twitter hashtag #CSUNATC18.

A note about the name. CSUN is the conference host's acronym, California State University at Northridge. The conference was previously named the "International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference," but everyone, including its organizers always referred to it as "CSUN." The new name reflects that reality and puts a lens on the conference's focus on removing "the barriers that prevent the full participation of persons with disabilities in educational, workplace and social settings." In addition to over 100 sessions each day on accessibility, visitors to its exhibit hall have the rare opportunity to check out a wide range of assistive technology and other accessibility tools. And, this is the place you should hang out if you want to run into Stevie Wonder!