Are you struggling to bring your website into compliance with laws, policies and guidelines on accessibility? Do you need to know more about the ADA, WCAG, and Section 508? Do you want to know more about how to make your website work for everyone? We will discuss how to make websites accessible. We will discuss how accessibility is often broken and how to avoid that. We will discuss practical tools for developers, designers and content editors. Take aways: 1. What to do to make your site/app accessible 2. What not to do 3. Where to find help

Web accessibility remains challenging, especially in education, where resources are limited. This presentation explores how component libraries can streamline accessible development by embedding Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) into reusable UI elements. This “trickle-down accessibility” approach ensures that student developers build inclusive websites without extensive accessibility training. By integrating accessibility directly into development workflows, teams can reduce manual audits and improve project consistency.

As technology evolves at an exponential rate, so too must our approach to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) within the digital landscape. Women, particularly women of color, remain significantly underrepresented in tech and face unique challenges in accessing opportunities for advancement, leadership, and meaningful contribution. This presentation will address key DEIB issues within the tech industry, focusing on how inequities persist and how the digital age offers both challenges and opportunities to combat them.

An opportunity for womxn to come together and eat lunch and learn more about UC WIT. We will have a guest speaker (last year was LeShelle May).

Inaccessible digital content is a huge problem, but how do we describe and measure the problem well enough to formulate a strategy to remediate it? As we work toward the 2026 deadline to comply with federal digital accessibility rules, we're all feeling like the blind men in an Indian parable trying to describe an elephant for the first time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant. They describe the part they touch as if it represents the whole animal. Arguing, they can't reach consensus.