Events

Explore upcoming NCADEMI webinars, technical assistance opportunities, and conference presentations focused on strengthening systems for digital accessibility and ensuring learners with disabilities have timely access to educational materials. Browse past events and access webinar recordings to support ongoing professional learning.

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Upcoming Events

  • November 3, 2026

    Office Hours for OSEP-funded Centers

    Audience-Specific Recurring Event

    NCADEMI offers weekly office hours to provide OSEP-Funded Centers with timely opportunities to discuss accessibility questions and receive guidance. Our team can assist with improving the accessibility of a wide range of digital products and communications, including websites, documents, PDFs, slide decks, videos, email messages, e-newsletters, and virtual meetings. We can also help your project…

  • November 4, 2026

    OKATE IGNITE 2026 Conference: Digital Accessibility Starts with the Tools We Use

    Conference

    Digital educational materials reach students through several pathways, each with its own accessibility considerations. Whether purchasing third party EdTech products, selecting web-based resources, or creating digital instructional materials, educators and teams need to prioritize accessibility across each pathway. Participants will leave with practical strategies to ensure what they purchase, select, and create is accessible –…

  • November 5, 2026

    Braille Accessibility in Assessment Community Conversation

    General

    Join NCADEMI and the OCALI AT&AEM Center for a Braille Accessibility in Assessment Community Conversation to help shape the development of a new Community of Practice (CoP), launching early 2027. During the session, participants will have the opportunity to share successes, challenges, and priorities related to braille accessibility in state assessments. Your feedback and conversations…

  • November 10, 2026

    Office Hours for OSEP-funded Centers

    Audience-Specific Recurring Event

    NCADEMI offers weekly office hours to provide OSEP-Funded Centers with timely opportunities to discuss accessibility questions and receive guidance. Our team can assist with improving the accessibility of a wide range of digital products and communications, including websites, documents, PDFs, slide decks, videos, email messages, e-newsletters, and virtual meetings. We can also help your project…

    Accessibility Before Accommodation: A Three-Part Series on Creating, Procuring, and Selecting Accessible Educational Materials

    Webinar

    Creating accessible learning experiences requires more than understanding the need to make individual documents accessible. It means building accessibility into the everyday decisions that shape what students engage with in the classroom. Join NCADEMI for a three-part virtual learning series exploring accessibility across the lifecycle of digital educational materials, from the resources educators create and…

  • November 11, 2026

    Hoosier Educational Computer Coordinators (HECC) Conference: Power Up Systemwide Digital Accessibility

    Conference

    As schools increasingly rely on digital learning materials, accessibility must be built into the systems used to evaluate, procure, create, select, and use them. This session introduces NCADEMI’s Quality Indicators and explores how they can help state and local educational agencies strengthen coordinated approaches to digital accessibility aligned with ADA Title II. Attendees will examine…

    Hoosier Educational Computer Coordinators (HECC) Conference: Digital Accessibility Starts with the Tools We Use

    Conference

    Digital educational materials reach students through several pathways, each with its own accessibility considerations. Whether purchasing third party EdTech products, selecting web-based resources, or creating digital instructional materials, educators and teams need to prioritize accessibility across each pathway. Participants will leave with practical strategies to ensure what they purchase, select, and create is accessible –…

    Access Point LIVE! for All Audiences

    Audience-Specific Recurring Event

    Access Point LIVE! is an open forum for all audiences connected to PreK-12 digital accessibility in education. Individuals and teams are encouraged to join APL! to strengthen digital accessibility knowledge through a recorded 10-minute spotlight of a practical accessibility skill, followed by unrecorded time to address attendee questions and problems of practice. APL! occurs the…

  • November 12, 2026

    Virtual Professional Learning Group for SEAs & LEAs

    Audience-Specific Recurring Event

    The virtual Professional Learning Group (PLG) is for state and local educational agency (SEA and LEA) teams ready to implement the Quality Indicators for the Provision and Use of Accessible Materials in PreK–12 Systems. Teams receive one year of targeted technical assistance through monthly collaborative sessions with NCADEMI specialists and peer teams. This is followed…

  • November 13, 2026

    2026 CASE Conference: Leading the Shift to Accessible Digital Learning in Your District

    Conference

    Students with disabilities can face barriers when digital learning materials lack the accessibility needed to work effectively with assistive technology. This session introduces NCADEMI’s Quality Indicators of Education Systems that Deliver Accessible Materials and explores how they can help districts build coordinated systems for selecting, creating, and using accessible educational materials and technology. Through a…

  • November 17, 2026

    AEM Tips for Parent Centers

    Audience-Specific Recurring Event

    AEM Tips for Parent Centers are thirty-minute monthly information sessions highlighting resources and strategies for families of children who need AEM. For example, what are the signs that a child needs AEM? How are AEM different from assistive technology (AT)? How can parents share their concerns with teachers? What kinds of AEM are available? How…

    Office Hours for OSEP-funded Centers

    Audience-Specific Recurring Event

    NCADEMI offers weekly office hours to provide OSEP-Funded Centers with timely opportunities to discuss accessibility questions and receive guidance. Our team can assist with improving the accessibility of a wide range of digital products and communications, including websites, documents, PDFs, slide decks, videos, email messages, e-newsletters, and virtual meetings. We can also help your project…

  • November 18, 2026

    Preparing Educators for Digital Accessibility Community of Practice for Educator Prep Programs

    Audience-Specific Recurring Event

    This Community of Practice (CoP) is designed to help educator preparation programs strengthen how they prepare future educators to provide and use accessible materials in PreK–12 settings. This collaboration brings together NCADEMI’s expertise in PreK–12 digital accessibility policies and practices with Teach Access’s proven model for training higher education faculty to teach accessibly and embed…

  • November 19, 2026

    OCALICON 2026: Integrating Accessible Formats within Your MTSS Implementation

    Conference

    The consideration, provision, and use of accessible formats is an essential component of support to ensure access and educational benefit for students with disabilities. This session describes how accessible formats relate to the implementation of Ohio's MTSS framework and highlights one district's approaches in the collection and use of data on student needs, format requests,…

    OCALICON 2026: Braille Accessibility in State Assessments

    Conference

    The Braille Accessibility in State Assessments: Roles, Responsibilities, and Strategies, a national resource developed by NCADEMI and the OCALI AT&AEM Center, provides recommended guidelines for the timely delivery and effective use of high-quality braille and tactile graphics. State assessment policies and practices must account for the needs of braille readers to ensure fair testing experiences.…

  • November 20, 2026

    OCALICON 2026: Power Up Systemwide Digital Accessibility

    Conference

    As schools increasingly rely on digital learning materials, accessibility must be proactively built into systems. This session introduces NCADEMI's Quality Indicators for Accessible Digital Educational Materials and demonstrates how they support state and local educational agencies in planning, implementing, and evaluating coordinated accessibility systems aligned with ADA Title II. Presenters will highlight the importance of…

  • November 24, 2026

    Office Hours for OSEP-funded Centers

    Audience-Specific Recurring Event

    NCADEMI offers weekly office hours to provide OSEP-Funded Centers with timely opportunities to discuss accessibility questions and receive guidance. Our team can assist with improving the accessibility of a wide range of digital products and communications, including websites, documents, PDFs, slide decks, videos, email messages, e-newsletters, and virtual meetings. We can also help your project…

    Early AEM ECHO Community for Part C Lead Agencies & Early Intervention Service Providers

    Audience-Specific Recurring Event

    NCADEMI’s Early AEM ECHO builds the capacity of Part C Lead Agencies and early intervention service providers to better support infants and toddlers with disabilities who will require assistive technology (AT) and AEM once they reach early childhood education. An area of focus for this ECHO community is best practices for supporting parents/caregivers and AT…

  • December 1, 2026

    Office Hours for OSEP-funded Centers

    Audience-Specific Recurring Event

    NCADEMI offers weekly office hours to provide OSEP-Funded Centers with timely opportunities to discuss accessibility questions and receive guidance. Our team can assist with improving the accessibility of a wide range of digital products and communications, including websites, documents, PDFs, slide decks, videos, email messages, e-newsletters, and virtual meetings. We can also help your project…

  • December 8, 2026

    Office Hours for OSEP-funded Centers

    Audience-Specific Recurring Event

    NCADEMI offers weekly office hours to provide OSEP-Funded Centers with timely opportunities to discuss accessibility questions and receive guidance. Our team can assist with improving the accessibility of a wide range of digital products and communications, including websites, documents, PDFs, slide decks, videos, email messages, e-newsletters, and virtual meetings. We can also help your project…

    Accessibility Before Accommodation: A Three-Part Series on Creating, Procuring, and Selecting Accessible Educational Materials

    Webinar

    Creating accessible learning experiences requires more than understanding the need to make individual documents accessible. It means building accessibility into the everyday decisions that shape what students engage with in the classroom. Join NCADEMI for a three-part virtual learning series exploring accessibility across the lifecycle of digital educational materials, from the resources educators create and…

  • December 9, 2026

    Access Point LIVE! for All Audiences

    Audience-Specific Recurring Event

    Access Point LIVE! is an open forum for all audiences connected to PreK-12 digital accessibility in education. Individuals and teams are encouraged to join APL! to strengthen digital accessibility knowledge through a recorded 10-minute spotlight of a practical accessibility skill, followed by unrecorded time to address attendee questions and problems of practice. APL! occurs the…

  • December 15, 2026

    AEM Tips for Parent Centers

    Audience-Specific Recurring Event

    AEM Tips for Parent Centers are thirty-minute monthly information sessions highlighting resources and strategies for families of children who need AEM. For example, what are the signs that a child needs AEM? How are AEM different from assistive technology (AT)? How can parents share their concerns with teachers? What kinds of AEM are available? How…

  • December 16, 2026

    Preparing Educators for Digital Accessibility Community of Practice for Educator Prep Programs

    Audience-Specific Recurring Event

    This Community of Practice (CoP) is designed to help educator preparation programs strengthen how they prepare future educators to provide and use accessible materials in PreK–12 settings. This collaboration brings together NCADEMI’s expertise in PreK–12 digital accessibility policies and practices with Teach Access’s proven model for training higher education faculty to teach accessibly and embed…

  • January 21, 2027

    ATIA Conference 2027: Accessible by Design - Providing Digital Materials that Work with AT

    Conference

    This interactive workshop prepares K–12 educators, assistive technology (AT) specialists, and digital learning and other educational leaders to improve the accessibility of digital educational materials and edtech products. Participants will explore how inaccessible digital materials create barriers for students who rely on AT, develop a practical understanding of digital accessibility requirements in schools, and learn…