Past events

September

Inclusive Design 24

Location: Online
Description

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) is a free 24-hour online event for the global community. It celebrates inclusive design and shares knowledge and ideas from analogue to digital, from design to development, from planners to practitioners, and everything and everyone in between.

Call for speakers

SmashingConf Freiburg

Location:
Freiburg, Germany and Online
Description

Focused on front-end and UX, SmashingConf is a friendly event focused on real-world problems and solutions. 2 days, 1 track, 12 speakers, 300–400 attendees and a handful of hands-on workshops.

5 accessibility highlights

August

Web Accessibility in Mind Conference

Location: Online
Description

Presented by WebAIM in partnership with Pope Tech, this virtual conference will provide participants with content that will help them mature their practice in digital accessibility.

June

Disability Pride Month

Starts Ends
Location: International

UX London 2024

Location: London, UK
Description

Three-day conference covering all aspects of the design process from user research and product design through to design ops and design systems.

1 accessibility highlight

Pixel Pioneers Bristol

Location: Bristol, UK
Description

An affordable one-day conference of practical and inspiring front-end and UX/UI design talks, featuring eight world-class speakers.

1 accessibility highlight
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Call for speakers

Accessibility Club Summit 2024

Location: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Description

Taking place right after CSS Day 2024, the summit features a full-day barcamp and a second day with community run workshops. Join us for two days of gaining knowledge about web accessibility, exchanging experiences and meeting like-minded enthusiasts from all over Europe and beyond.

Call for speakers

CSS Day 2024

Location:
Amsterdam, Netherlands and Online
Description

An advanced, single-track CSS conference for designers, developers, spec writers and browser vendors.

1 accessibility highlight

May

User Experience Lisbon

Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Description

Join UX friends from all over the world for a one-of-a-kind learning experience. It’s 4 days to soak in new knowledge and strengthen your skillset.

4 accessibility highlights

Virtua11y 2024

Location: Online
Description

Nomensa's free, virtual web accessibility and digital inclusion conference. All sessions are recorded and everyone that signs up will have exclusive access to the recordings.

March

CSUN Assistive Technology Conference

Location: Anaheim, CA
Description

An inclusive setting for researchers, practitioners, exhibitors, end users, speakers and other participants to share knowledge and best practices in the field of assistive technology.

February

TechAccess Oklahoma 2024

Location: Oklahoma, US
Description

Accessibility experts from across the US join together to share their extensive knowledge with you.

Zero Project Conference 2024

Location:
Vienna, Austria and Online
Description

The Zero Project Conference will reunite the global disability inclusion community, and highlight outstanding innovations centred around this year's topics of Inclusive Education, and ICT.

axe-con 2024

Location: Online
Description

Axe-con is the world’s largest digital accessibility conference that welcomes developers, designers, business users, and accessibility professionals of all experience levels to an accessibility conference focused on building, testing, and maintaining accessible digital experiences.

State of Open Con 2024

Location: London, UK
Description

The UK's open technology conference covering open source software, open hardware and open data.

3 accessibility highlights

FOSDEM 2024

Location: Brussels, Belgium
Description

A free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in!

2 accessibility highlights

Raynaud’s Awareness Month

Starts Ends
Location: UK

January

ATIA 2024

Location:
Orlando, Florida and Online
Description

Connect with thousands of assistive technology practitioners, teachers, parents, caregivers, persons with disabilities, and more.Discover new technologies, opportunities, and creative ideas that support the power of the AT community.

November 2023

Wey Wey Web

Location: Málaga, Spain
Description

A multi-disciplinary conference that brings together the full spectrum of individuals involved on the latest trends and practices in Web and Mobile development and UX and Product design.

1 accessibility highlight

Interact Amsterdam

Location: Online
Description

Interact Amsterdam Virtual Conference is Nomensa's free, virtual offering of Interact Amsterdam. Join us for six talks covering the central theme of Designing Tomorrow from some of the world's leading thinkers in UX and design.

1 accessibility highlight

TechShare Pro

Location:
Canary Wharf, London and Online
Description

Europe's largest gathering of accessibility and inclusion professionals and their allies. Meet like-minded people and learn from the world's leading experts, either online or in-person.

Agile Testing Days

Location:
Potsdam, Germany and Online
Description

4-day conference where 600+ international agile software testers and engineers gather to learn, share, and network. This year's accessibility talks include 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to mobile accessibility' and 'Automated Accessibility Testing: A Showcase'.

3 accessibility highlights

Magnify 2023

Location: Online
Description

This conference will explore topics that support practitioners implement equity-seeking design and research processes in meaningful ways online. Talks are pre-recorded to make them as accessible as possible, and reduce any tech problems.

4 accessibility highlights

ReTestBash UK

Location: Online
Description

The ultimate online conference designed to deepen your knowledge and extend your learning from the TestBash UK 2023 Conference. As the name suggests, ReTestBash revolves around reflection, providing you with the perfect opportunity to dive even deeper into the diverse software testing topics covered at TestBash UK.

1 accessibility highlight

October 2023

Web Directions Summit

Location:
Sydney, Australia and Online
Description

Expect top notch ideas, reams of actionable insights and life changing connections. There are 8 tracks of content, with talks on WCAG 2.0 for designers and baking accessibility into design systems.

2 accessibility highlights

#a11yTO Conf

Location:
Toronto, Canada and Online
Description

During #a11yWeekTO, you can expect multiple accessibility events in Downtown Toronto, including free social events, #a11yTOGaming, and our two-day, single-track Digital Accessibility Conference hosted at Microsoft.

Interact London

Location: Museum of London
Description

Design conference where the best minds from UX, design, AI, data and more share their ideas with digital leaders from around the world, including Jonny Hendriks, Nomensa's Head of Accessibility. You can also book a session in the Empathy Lab the day before the main conference.

M-Enabling Summit

Location: Washington, DC
Description

Join disability advocates, corporations, government agencies, academia, and accessibility executives at the leading all-inclusive conference and showcase dedicated to fostering innovations, solutions, and strategies for digital inclusion.

September 2023

Down Syndrome Awareness Month

Starts Ends
Location: International

Inclusive Design 24

Location: Online
Description

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) is a free 24-hour online event for the global community. It celebrates inclusive design and shares knowledge and ideas from analogue to digital, from design to development, from planners to practitioners, and everything and everyone in between.