Web Design References: Events

Events and Conferences

September
Date	Title	Location
September 7–10	SmashingConf Freiburg	Online and Freiburg, Germany
September 9	The Accessibility Leader's Guide to the Year Ahead	Online
September 9	Make it Accessible: Course Accessibility Resources	Online
September 10	Know Where You Stand: Understanding Your Digital Accessibility Position	Shenzhen, China
September 14-24	Virtual UX Training	Online
September 15	Insights from Real-World Accessibility Audit Data	Online
September 15	Insights from Real-World Accessibility Audit Data	Online
September 15-16	Web Accessibility in Mind Conference	Online
September 16	Workshop, Accessibility of Forms with Karl Groves	Online
September 16	Workshop, Accessibility of Forms with Karl Groves	Online
September 21-29	Accessibility for Designers	Online
September 22	US Digital Accessibility Laws and Resources: Follow-Up	Online
September 23	Accessibility Careers, Recruitment and Mentoring	Online
September 23	IAAP EU 6th Anniversary Web Accessibility Directive	Online
September 23-25	WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026	San Jose, California, U.S.A.
September 24	Live Accessibility Testing New!	Online
September 24	Inclusive Design 24	Online
September 24-25	Paris Web	Online
September 25	UXPALOOZA	Online
September 29-October 2	EDUCAUSE Annual Conference	Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

October
Date	Title	Location
October 1	San Diego Accessibility and Inclusive Design	San Diego, California, U.S.A.
October 1	IAAP Nordic and Öbí Accessibility Event WAD: Iceland onboard - from requirements to reality	Online and Reykjavik, Iceland
October 5-7	M-Enabling Summit	Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.
October 5-16	Virtual UX Training	Online
October 6-9	National Association of Government Web Professionals Annual Conference	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
October 7-8	WordPress Accessibility Day 2026	Online
October 15	WCAG Success Criteria and Conformance	Online
October 7-9	Open Source Summit Europe 2026	Online
October 14-15	EDUCAUSE Annual Conference	Denver, Colorado, Online
October 17-20	All Things Open	Online and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
October18-21	Digital Collegium (formerly HighEdWeb) Annual Conference	Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.
October 20-22	Closing The Gap	Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
October 22	Accessibility in Technology Procurement and Use New!	Online
October 25-28	ASSETS 2026	Online
October 26	W3C Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee (TPAC)	Online and Dublin, Ireland

November
Date	Title	Location
November 1	Deep Dive into WAI-ARIA with Karl Groves	Online
November 4–5	Virtual Web Accessibility Training New!	Online
November 6	UX Brighton New!	Brighton, England, United Kingdom
November 5–7	ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
November 10-12	Adobe MAX	Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
November 12	World Usability Day	Online
November 16-20	Accessing Higher Ground	New York, New York, U.S.A.
November 17	Disability Rights Advocates' 2026 Gala	Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
November 18-19	TechShare Pro	London, England, United Kingdom
November 23-25	A11y Camp	Sydney, Australia
November 30	Blue Beanie Day	Online

December
Date	Title	Location
December 3	International Day of People with Disability	Online
December 4	Accessible Events Show USA	Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A.
December 17	Reflecting on Progress, Looking Ahead in Disability Inclusion	Online

January
Date	Title	Location
January 4	World Braille Day	Online

February
Date	Title	Location
February 10-12	Zero Project Conference 2027	Online
February 24-26	ConFoo	Montreal, Canada

March
Date	Title	Location
March 8-12	42nd CSUN Assistive Technology Conference	Anaheim, California, U.S.A.
March 15–21	South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference	Online and Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
March 22-25	DrupalCon Orlando 2027	Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.

April
Date	Title	Location
April 14-17	Information Architecture Conference	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

May
Date	Title	Location
May 10-12	UXDX USA 2027	Online and New York, New York, U.S.A.

June
Date	Title	Location
June 3-4	CSS Day	Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June 9-10	UX Scotland	Edinburgh, Scotland

July
Date	Title	Location
July 2-7	National Federation of the Blind National Convention	Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
July 6-8	UX London 2027	London, England, United Kingdom
July 16-17	HotCarbon	Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
July 25-30	International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction	Berlin, Germany