Il progetto APACE organizza la European Accessibility Summer School, un evento di due giorni dedicato a professionisti dell’editoria ed esperti di accessibilità che si incontreranno nel suggestivo borgo toscano di Fiesole (Firenze) per discutere insieme di accessibilità, innovazione e sfide del settore. L’evento si terrà il 26 e il 27 giugno in presenza (e in lingua inglese).

Cosa aspettarsi

In un contesto dinamico e altamente interattivo, la European Accessibility Summer School offre un’opportunità unica per:

• Esplorare tutti gli aspetti chiave dell’accessibilità nel settore editoriale
• Partecipare a sessioni pratiche e con altri professionisti della filiera
• Cimentarsi in workshop che fanno riferimento a contesti reali

AGENDA

Giorno uno

9:00 Registrazione

Welcome

Video greetings

Georg Hauesler, Director for Culture, Creativity and Sport della Commissione Europea (DG EAC)

Icebreaker

Elisa Molinari, Project manager APACE

Round table “The European Accessibility Act is here. Now what?”

• Inmaculada Placencia Porrero, Senior Expert in Disability and Inclusion at Directorate-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion della Commissione Europea (presentazione video)
• Cristina Mussinelli, Segretario Generale di Fondazione LIA
• Kristina Kramer, Deputy Director for European and International Affairs Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels
• Modera: Porter Anderson, Editor in Chief Publishing Perspectives

10:45 – 11:30 Networking Break

Beyond compliance and checklists: how to build a culture of accessibility

• Alessandra Porcelli, Strategic Publishing Consultant & Learning Consultant Mondadori Education’s Accessibility PMO
• Stacy Scott, Head of Accessibility Taylor&Francis
• Tobias Giversen, Digital Project Manager Politikens
• Modera: Porter Anderson, Editor in Chief Publishing Perspectives

Nobody puts accessibility in a corner

• Gregorio Pellegrino, Chief Accessibility Officer Fondazione LIA

13:00 – 14:30 Pranzo

Round table “European publishers and their roadmap towards accessibility” 

• Leena Rautjärvi, Publication Specialist Helsinki University Press
• Miia Kirsi, Accessibility Specialist Celia
• Alisa Žarkova, Head of Publishing Department Lithuanian Audiosensory Library
• Modera: Porter Anderson, Editor in Chief Publishing Perspectives

Pitch your accessibility pain

Wrestling with a tricky accessibility issue? This session is your space to speak up. Bring your real-world questions, challenges, and sticking points. We’ll tackle them together breaking down the toughest problems and tapping into the collective experience of peers and experts. No challenge too small, no question too specific. Let’s turn pain into progress!

• Pitch your accessibility pain about production of accessible contents
• Pitch your accessibility pain about image description

16:15-17:00 Networking Break

Conclusioni e commenti finali

Giorno due

9:00 Recap del primo giorno

Keynote speech about accessibility metadata

• Chris Saynor, Standards editor EDItEUR

Round table “Mainstreaming accessible distribution”

• Nina Rubach, Senior Platform Product Manager Bookwire
• Virginie Bouilhac, Director, Content Management Kobo
• Dani Molina, Operation and Support Specialist De Marque
• Bruna Benvegnù, Senior Product Manager, Books Publisher Experience Amazon
• Modera: Porter Anderson, Editor in Chief Publishing Perspectives

11:00 – 11:30 Networking Break

Accessible ebooks at readers’ fingertips. How do accessible ebooks reach readers?

• Gautier Chomel, Project manager European Digital Reading Lab

Libraries: where accessibility happens

• Francesco Pandini, Project manager Medialibraryonline
• Luisa Gaggini, Head of e-Content and Partners Relations Casalini libri
• Modera: Porter Anderson, Editor in Chief Publishing Perspectives

13:00 – 14:30 Pranzo

Round table “Accessible platforms and where to find them”

• Paolo Casarini, IT Director Il Mulino
• Paolo Pancaldi, Full Stack Developer Il Mulino
• Francesca Avanzini, Digital Project Manager Sanoma Italia

Pitch your accessibility pain

• Pitch your accessibility pain about how to assure the quality of your production and distribution flows: Quality Assurance, tools, display of accessibility metadata
• Pitch your accessibility pain about the cost of accessibility: investments, disproportionate burden, backlist, conversion

16:15 – 17:00 Networking break

17:00 Wrap up e Conclusioni finali

L’evento è gratuito ma i posti disponibili sono limitati. Se interessati a partecipare, potete scrivere una mail a: apace@fondazionelia.org

Questo evento è organizzato nel contesto di APACE, co-finanziato dall’Unione Europea