{"id":2143,"date":"2019-04-09T07:55:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:48","slug":"99365-aect-accessibility-design-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/99365-aect-accessibility-design-slam\/","title":{"rendered":"99:365 | AECT Accessibility Design Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ll be attending the #aect19 convention in Las Vegas, please mark your calendar for our <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/event?action=TEMPLATE&amp;tmeid=MjgyZms3aTM4dGxuODI2bnA4Nm9saTU1NTEgam1hZGRyZWxsQG0&amp;tmsrc=jmaddrell%40gmail.com\">Accessibility Design Slam workshop on Wednesday, October 23rd at 9:00 &#8211; 11:50 a.m.<\/a> The workshop team includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yvonne Earnshaw, University of Memphis<\/li>\n<li>Amy Lomellini, Molloy College<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Maddrell, Designers for Learning<\/li>\n<li>Jason McDonald, Brigham Young University<\/li>\n<li>Esther Michela, Brigham Young University<\/li>\n<li>Plus &#8230; some special guests we&#8217;re lining up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The aim of this workshop is external impact related to the design and development of research and projects to support accessibility.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/members.aect.org\/events\/review\/workshops.asp?day=&amp;AllAcademicCode=1538254#21-Wb\">As noted in the workshop abstract<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aligning with the conference theme of inspired professional learning, the goal of this three-hour workshop is to assist participants in planning their own research or resource development for accessibility-related issues\/topics (e.g., universal design, access, equity, adherence to compliance standards, etc.) Given the noted interest by practitioners and lack of focus by scholars within our field, we aim to lay a foundation for this work by advocating for needed research and resources, and by providing a mentored workshop experience where participants can receive formative feedback as they plan future accessibility-related projects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a lead up to the workshop, our team will also participate in an AECT Design &amp; Development division webinar tentatively set for September 18, 2019.\u00a0 More to follow &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ll be attending the #aect19 convention in Las Vegas, please mark your calendar for our Accessibility Design Slam workshop on Wednesday, October 23rd at 9:00 &#8211; 11:50 a.m. The workshop team includes: Yvonne Earnshaw, University of Memphis Amy Lomellini, Molloy College Jennifer Maddrell, Designers for Learning Jason McDonald, Brigham Young University Esther Michela, Brigham&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}