Virtua11y is Nomensa’s web accessibility and inclusivity conference taking place over three days from 17-19th May, 2022.

Virtua11y brings the leading thinkers and doers in accessibility and digital inclusion to share best practice, the latest thinking and what the future holds for accessibility. Expect talks, panel discussions, workshops and interviews that you can enjoy for free and from the comfort of your sofa.

All sessions are recorded and everyone that signs up will have exclusive access to the recordings.

Tuesday 17th May

10:00 - 11:00 | How to create a prioritised backlog of accessibility issues - Alistair Duggin, Principal Accessibility Consultant at Nomensa

13:00 - 14:00 | The Power of Tech to Change Lives - Mali Fernando, Global Head of Digital Experience and Accessibility at HSBC

15:00 - 16:00 | Recognize Exclusion, Design for Inclusion - Bryce Johnson, Co-inventor of the Xbox Adaptive Controller at Xbox

Wednesday 18th May

10:00 - 11:00 | Building inclusive health services: lessons learned from my time working in accessibility and inclusion for Test and Trace - Joel Strohmeier, Senior Accessibility Consultant at Nomensa

13:00 - 14:00 | Moving beyond compliance - setting up an accessibility team for culture change at the UK Ministry of Justice - Ministry of Justice Accessibility team: Danielle Lyon (Senior Product Manager), Beverley Newing (Accessibility Lead), Nathan Leahy (Associate Delivery Manager) and Eu-Hyung Han (Accessibility specialist)

15:00 - 16:00 | Making the Accessibility “Switch” – How to Change Behaviour at Scale - Lori Samuels, Senior Director of Accessibility and NBCUniversal

Thursday 19th May - Global Accessibility Awareness Day

10:00 - 11:00 | Form(s) over Function - Ronny Hendriks, Principal Accessibility Consultant at Nomensa

13:00 - 14:00 | Building an Accessible Product - Max Fumagalli Member of the Depop founding team and Marco Fabbri, Accessibility Specialist and Design System owner at Depop

15:00 - 16:00 | The Accessible Organisation: A Panel Discussion, chaired by Alastair Campbell, Director of Accessibility at Nomensa and with panellists: Tzveta Dinova, Accessibility Specialist at ASOS.com; Pavel Pomerantsev, Senior Software Engineer at Squarespace; Satjinder Jabanda-Wilson, Accessibility and Inclusive Design Lead at Virgin Media O2 and Beverley Newing, Accessibility Lead at Ministry of Justice.

Virtua11y is covered by Interact London's inclusion policy.