Collaborative Accessibility Problem-Solving (CAPS) Meetup
Join colleagues for this informal networking series with other faculty support partners across the UW system for collaborative problem-solving. We’ll talk about challenges we face and how we can support faculty in accessibility efforts in the coming academic year.
Audience: Faculty support staff across the UW community, instructional designers, communications staff, learning technology staff, administrative staff, librarians
Schedule: 4th Tuesday of each month, 3:00 – 4:00pm
The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at dso@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/94285858851. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Not Specified.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Zoom.
Distinguished Lecture Series: Meredith Ringel Morris - HCI for AGI
Abstract:
The past few years have seen rapid advances in frontier AI models, demonstrating increasing performance and generality. As progress continues toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) scholarship and practice has a critical role to play in ensuring that AI technology is useful to and usable by people to accomplish tasks they value. HCI insights can help us maximize the benefit of AI technologies to individuals, communities, and society while allowing us to understand how to mitigate harms. In this talk, I will describe a research vision for the field of HCI in the AGI era, examining how researchers can facilitate progress toward and adoption of advanced AI via interaction techniques, interface designs, physical form factors, design methods, evaluation methods, benchmarking approaches, and data collection techniques.
Bio:
Meredith Ringel Morris is Director for Human-AI Interaction Research at Google DeepMind. Prior to joining DeepMind, she was Director of the…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. Games for Blind Gamers - a month-long jam
The goal of this jam is to make games for blind players and build awareness of blind gaming and accessibility in general. We welcome developers of all types and experiences (beginners and veterans, sighted and blind, etc.) and encourage them to learn about blind gamers and accessibility to create interesting and creative games!
What: A month-long chilled jam where you create a game that blind players can play, too.
Why: Blind gamers have their own set of challenges when gaming. We hope to build awareness and create interesting, creative games that they can enjoy too!
How: Create a game (solo or in teams). Then, public voting will determine the Community Winner (anyone with an account on Itch can vote) and a panel of judges will vote on the Judges' Choice!
Event interval: Ongoing event. Accessibility Contact: support@itch.io. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Special Events. Target Audience: Blind/Low Vision gamers.
Friday, January 30, 2026, 9:00 PM – Sunday, March 1, 2026, 9:00 PM.
For more info visit itch.io. Course Accessibility Lunch & Learn: Seven Practical Moves Toward Disability Justice in the Classroom
It’s a pleasure to welcome Dr. Amy J. Ko as our special guest this month! Amy brings both a disability justice lens and a focus on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to inform an accessible teaching practice. Though the word “computing” appears in the title of Amy’s presentation, her 7 heuristics for accessible teaching are appliable and doable in any course, regardless of subject. You’ll leave this presentation inspired and with new ideas for making learning more accessible and inclusive for all students.
This will be a virtual event taking place on Zoom and captions will be enabled. This event is intended to be inclusive and accessible. A two-week timeframe is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. Please email Mary-Colleen Jenkins (mcj6@uw.edu) for any accessibility-related requests.
The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities.…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Zoom, registration required.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Winter Accessibility POP Session 3: Canvas Accessibility Tips
Today we're focusing on Canvas Accessibility Tips. Our working meetings will have the same structure each time: 15 minutes to learn; 30 minutes to practice; 15 to reflect. You'll leave with 30 minutes of work accomplished!
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Winter Accessibility POP Session 4: Simple Alternative text
Today we're focusing on an important Accessibility Skill: Simple Alternative Text. Our working meetings will have the same structure each time: 15 minutes to learn; 30 minutes to practice; 15 to reflect. You'll leave with 30 minutes of work accomplished!
This will be a virtual event taking place on Zoom and captions will be enabled. This event is intended to be inclusive and accessible. A two-week timeframe is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. Please email ats-events@uw.edu for any accessibility-related requests.
The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at dso@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Winter Accessibility POP Session 5: Accessible Slide Design
Today we're focusing on an important Accessibility Skill: Accessible Slide Design. Our working meetings will have the same structure each time: 15 minutes to learn; 30 minutes to practice; 15 to reflect. You'll leave with 30 minutes of work accomplished!
This will be a virtual event taking place on Zoom and captions will be enabled. This event is intended to be inclusive and accessible. A two-week timeframe is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. Please email ats-events@uw.edu for any accessibility-related requests.
The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at dso@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Winter Accessibility POP Session 6: Accessible Presentation Delivery
Today we're focusing on an important Accessibility Skill: Accessible Presentation Delivery. Our working meetings will have the same structure each time: 15 minutes to learn; 30 minutes to practice; 15 to reflect. You'll leave with 30 minutes of work accomplished!
This will be a virtual event taking place on Zoom and captions will be enabled. This event is intended to be inclusive and accessible. A two-week timeframe is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. Please email ats-events@uw.edu for any accessibility-related requests.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction.
"Creant el demà junts. Creating Tomorrow Together.”.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Accessibility Contact: access@chi2026.acm.org. Event Types: Conferences. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Target Audience: Researchers and academics working in Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Monday, April 13, 2026 – Friday, April 17, 2026.
Barcelona Spain.
For more info visit chi2026.acm.org. Digital Accessibility Liaisons' Meeting
Join us as we welcome new and existing Digital Accessibility Liaisons members to our third Community of Practice meeting of the 2025-2026 academic year! We are still fine-tuning our agenda, but stay tuned for more details closer to our meeting date.
Agenda TBD
To become a Digital Accessibility Liaison, please visit the Digital Accessibility Liaisons webpage.
The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at dso@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/96052250328. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: Digital Accessibility Liaisons.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.