AI and the Future of
Human Accessibility Testing

 

Workshop Outline

What opportunities do we as accessibility professionals and disability advocates have to shape the future of AI?

To answer this, we’ll host a design-thinking exercise where we’ll brainstorm ideas, break down challenges, and sketch out approaches for accessibility in the age of AI. We’ll define strategies and policies to ensure that AI equitably serves diverse human users and testers.

The ethical use of AI is a complex and evolving issue that requires careful consideration and collaboration among various stakeholders, such as advocates, regulators, developers, testers, and consumers of AI. By the end of the workshop, we will have put together a mission statement and a list of opportunities for the accessibility community to set goals, guidelines, benchmarks, testing procedures, and other solutions.

Join us for this unique workshop where we will look to shape the future of human accessibility testing in the age of AI.

Course Duration

6 hours, plus breaks.

Agenda

Part 1: Establishing a common understanding of AI

• What are the different forms AI has taken in recent years?
• What is around the corner in AI?
• How AI can predict without understanding

Part 2: What challenges does AI bring?

• Poor representation and ableist stereotyping in training datasets
• What motivates AI?
• Transparency in algorithms
• How can we tell what’s authentic?
• How do we test for bias against people with disabilities?
• Accuracy: how good is good enough?

Part 3: Design thinking exercise

We will brainstorm goals, group them, and vote on which ones are most important.

Part 4: Brainstorming solutions

What products, processes, or policies can we develop as accessibility advocates and techies?

Part 5: Summing it up

We will draft a position statement in the style of a mission statement and a list of potential opportunities for the accessibility community, the tech community, and government.

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Course fee: $345 if adding on to Main Symposium | $545 if only attending the course

Discounts: Government (10%); Academia (20%); Non-Profit (20%); Student (50%)

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About the Instructors

Erin Kirchner-Lucas

Dr. Kanta is the Sponsorship & Awards Chair of the 2023 ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium, and is a Senior Manager for  Accessibility & Website Management at Microsoft.

Erin is a pssionate operations leader and accessibility evangelist, skilled in Accessibility-First Program Management, Section 508 & WCAG Compliance, User Experience Design, Digital Strategy/Brand Management, and Software Release Management. She is an experienced Information Technology professional and public speaker with a demonstrated history of success in the Federal and EdTech sectors.

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Claudio Luís Vera

Bio coming soon.