Join us for a live session with Q&A
April 2025

Gaining insights from data is a critical capability for workers across all industries and professions. Unfortunately, data visualizations fail even under normal circumstances because of significant complexities in communicating data. Tackling this problem for individuals with disabilities presents even more layers of challenges.

Thomas Watkins will review current existing approaches to solving these problems, along with an honest discussion about the effectiveness of these solutions. Finally, we will wrap up the discussion by considering what may be possible to accomplish in the future as technology advances open new possibilities.

Does the term “accessible name” sometimes leave you puzzled? In this review, Becky Gibson will break it down, covering:

Knowbility’s own Sharron Rush and Teenya Franklin will give you an insider’s view into John Slatin AccessU. Come with your questions about THE annual conference on digital accessibility - where tech professionals, content creators, policymakers, and advocates come together for deep learning in accessible digital design.

So please join us for an hour of tempting accessibility tidbits!

Thomas Watkins is a UX team leader, speaker, and industry practitioner in Houston, TX. He is a life-long learner passionate about bringing greater clarity to the world. Thomas has made it his career’s focus to combine technology with design psychology to drive business success. He specializes in helping his business partners bring their brilliant ideas to life by translating complexity into simplicity. His work has included interface design for mobile, SaaS system architecture, usability research, and data visualization.

Becky Gibson is a recognized expert in the field of digital inclusion and enabling accessible solutions. Her extensive career as a Software Engineer and Accessibility Architect at IBM impacted products, customer strategy, and industry standards. She is passionate about making Web and mobile applications usable for people of all abilities.

She participated in the creation of W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG) and helped to develop and demonstrate the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specification. In her spare time Becky enjoys traveling, paddle boarding, kayaking, reading, and playing with her cat, Circe.

BADA presentations are held on Zoom. Connection details are emailed the day before the event.

We provide Zoom's AI captions for all webinars. During registration you may request other accommodations. We will do our best to provide them, given reasonable notification.

Knowbility's events are held in an inclusive and welcoming space. All attendees are subject to Knowbility's Code of Conduct.

Can’t make it? The event will be recorded and shared with all who register. So if you can’t join us, register and we’ll be in touch when the recording is available the following week.

Questions? Contact Knowbility via email for assistance: events@knowbility.org.

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