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axe-con 2026

Axe-con is the world's largest digital accessibility conference, bringing together developers, designers, business users, and accessibility professionals to advance digital accessibility programs. The event features expert talks, multi-track sessions, and presentations from industry leaders, focusing on building, testing, and delivering accessible digital ex…

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79Speakers
3Sponsors
47On the bill · sessions
4Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at axe-con, in alphabetical order.
Alex Haidar
Alice Wong
Alisa Shtromberg
Alyssa Shock
Amanda Bolton
Ambika Yadav
Angela Young
Anna Cook
Arielle Silverman
Bhuvana Narayanamurthy
Carmel Heydarian
Cherisha Agarwal
Cintia Romero
Corey Hinshaw
Damian Sian
Daniel Henderson-Ede
Daniel Yuschick
David Sabaté
Destin Hubble
Dylan Barrell
Ed Summers
Emilie Berglund
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Articulate
Meta
Saucelabs
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Agenda

Selected from 47 sessions on the bill.
  • Tuesday February 24 10:00am

    Accessibility at an inflection point: Regulation, AI agents, and what comes next

    Keynote
  • Tuesday February 24 1:00pm

    Inclusive, Engaging Accessibility Presentations (Ditch the Dull!)

    Wildcard
  • Tuesday February 24 1:00pm

    Integrating Axe for automated testing in a distributed engineering environment

    Development
  • Tuesday February 24 1:00pm

    More Practical Strategies for Accessible Design (Part Two)

    Design
  • Tuesday February 24 1:00pm

    Shift-up Accessibility: An Effective Accessibility Governance Framework for Leaders

    Organizational Success with Accessibility
  • Tuesday February 24 11:00am

    Accessibility in the End of Deterministic Design (Again)

    Design
  • Tuesday February 24 11:00am

    Building for a new next billion users

    Development
  • Tuesday February 24 11:00am

    Digital accessibility as a competitive advantage

    Organizational Success with Accessibility
  • Tuesday February 24 11:00am

    The US Digital Accessibility Legal Update (Content warning)

    Wildcard
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 4 companies, parsed from the program.

Four companies in attendance.

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Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
3Sponsoringsponsor only
1Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

1% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Founder / Owner11%
  • Other roles7899%

Of 79 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01ArticulateSp
  2. 02MetaSp
  3. 03Sauce LabsSp
  4. 04Affectiva1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified3
100% of 3