Mark your calendar — it's time for a 4th Summit!
Berlin 2019, Amsterdam 2024, Würzburg 2025 — and now the time has come to invite you to our fourth major summit! 🎉
Join us for two days of gaining knowledge about web accessibility, exchanging experiences and meeting like-minded enthusiasts from all over Europe and beyond: May 9-10, 2026, again in beautiful Würzburg, Germany!
Again, the summit will be jointly run by multiple web accessibility and inclusive design related meetups from all over Europe. And again, it will feature a full-day BarCamp and a second day with community run workshops.
Mark the weekend on your calendar, grab a ticket and plan for sufficient time — Würzburg is a beautiful city to visit!
How do I benefit?
As an accessibility enthusiast, you will meet a lot of like-minded people from various disciplines and with all sorts of skill level. You will be able to share your experiences, broaden your horizon and make new friends.
As a meetup or event organiser, you will get new impulses for your events, put them into a bigger context and just have a lot of fun with your usual attendees who will hopefully join you to the Summit. Take it as a super-social excursion that takes you out of your usual boundaries. 😉
Organising? Join in!
If you're organising an accessibility meetup, inclusive design related event or anything similar and want to get involved with the Summit, please get in touch. We hope to be able to mobilise many accessibility enthusiasts from Germany, the Netherlands and many other countries. We'll try to get in touch with as many groups and meetups as we get to know of, but you're welcome to be faster than we are. You don't necessarily have to take an active role but we'd still appreciate your input.
BarCamp + Workshops
We run the summit as a 2-day event:
- Day 1 is all about conversation and sharing experiences. BarCamp-style sessions mixed with a handful of pre-planned presentations for all attendees, pretty much like we had in the past years.
- Day 2 is for learning, expanding our knowledge and putting things into practise. Visit one of several workshops about developing and designing accessible websites and digital content, run by community members like yourself.
BarCamp Sessions
In addition to the pre-planned presentations, there will be further parallel sessions, which will be jointly decided on the morning of the event in the style of a BarCamp. Each participant can propose a session — it does not have to be a prepared presentation. Just bring your own topic! It can be a discussion round, an exchange of experiences, or you are welcome to show what you have been working on recently. One rule only: No sales or recruitment pitches! The audience will decide together which topics will become a session.
Pre-planned presentations
For the BarCamp day, we'll use a hybrid schedule style with both spontaneous sessions and pre-planned presentations. To shape the pre-planned part of the programme, we are currently running an anonymous Call for Presentations. A jury of dedicated volunteers from the Accessibility Club community will be selecting a set number of presentations from the submissions to create an engaging core programme for the Summit. If you'd like to contribute, check out the Call for Presentations and submit your idea!
Captions & Live Stream
The pre-planned presentations will be supported by human-made live captions that can be read on site on a monitor and on private devices via an internet connection (e.g. on a smartphone).
In addition, the pre-planned presentations will be recorded on video and published after the event. The presentations will also be streamed live during the event if the technology does not let us down. All ticket holders will be sent the access data for the live stream in a timely manner to the e-mail addresses stored in their tickets.
Call for Presentations
Got insights, experiences, or research on accessibility that you'd love to share? Our Call for Presentations is your chance to contribute to the Accessibility Club Summit 2026. Submit your idea by Sunday, March 29, 2026, at 23:59 (Europe/Berlin), and be part of the curated programme shaping the discussions at the event. The selected presentations will form a dedicated track during the BarCamp day, creating a strong core program for the Summit.
Our CfP is completely anonymous — we’re not looking for big names, but for great ideas! We especially encourage new voices and those from underrepresented groups to take the stage and share their perspectives on accessibility in design, development, or community work. A jury of dedicated community members will review all submissions and curate an inspiring lineup
Call for Workshops
The Summit isn’t just about listening — it’s about doing! If you want to teach, guide, or collaborate hands-on with others, we invite you to propose a workshop. Submissions are open until Thursday, April 30, 2026, at 23:59 (Europe/Berlin), so bring your ideas to life and help make accessibility more practical for everyone. The selected workshops will take place on Sunday, May 10, 2026, at the THWS, complementing the BarCamp day with hands-on sessions.
As a workshop host, you will receive 80% of the participation fees (€ 25 for half-day and € 50 for full-day workshops), with the remaining 20% supporting the overall event organisation. Please note that, as a non-profit event, we are unable to cover travel or accommodation costs. However, we will provide the venue and manage participant registration.
We particularly encourage newcomers, people with disabilities, and members of marginalised groups to submit their workshop ideas. Your workshop should focus on teaching and implementing accessibility topics; commercial promotions are not permitted. All accepted workshops will be published on our website.
Fully hybrid
Last year, we introduced the option to attend the Summit remotely via Zoom for the first time. We're happy to say that we'll be offering remote participation again this year.
We're also honest enough to admit that not everything ran perfectly last time. That was new territory for us, and we learned a great deal from the experience. Thanks to those lessons, we're confident that this year's hybrid setup will run more smoothly. We'd like to sincerely thank everyone who joined remotely last year for their patience, and we hope to once again enable many people to take part from a distance.
As before, all BarCamp sessions and workshops are planned as hybrid sessions, supported by the technical infrastructure in the lecture halls at THWS. Each room will have its own dedicated Zoom call, allowing not just passive listening but active, interactive remote participation. We also plan to record the sessions so they can be revisited later.
We aim to make as little distinction as possible between remote and in-person participation. However, we kindly ask everyone to choose the correct ticket type so that we can properly estimate attendance numbers on site and remotely. The Zoom links for the sessions will be sent in good time by email to all remote ticket holders, using the email address provided during ticket registration.
Schedule
| Time | Agenda item |
|---|---|
| - | Accessibility 101This session is explicitly aimed at all those who are new to accessibility and would like to familiarise themselves with the most basic concepts and terms of accessibility before the actual event. The presenters will guide you through the key principles and ensure that you have a better understanding of some of the day's topics. The session is designed to give you more confidence and understanding of the broad field of accessibility and allow for an initial exchange with like-minded enthusiasts. |
| - | Doors open |
| - | Opening Performed by |
| - | Session planning |
| - | Session 1 |
| - | Session 2 |
| - | Lunch break |
| - | Session 3 |
| - | Session 4 |
| - | Coffe & Tea break |
| - | Session 5 |
| - | Session 6 |
| - | Closing Performed by |
| - | Informal evening programmeIn previous years, it has often happened that larger groups got together on the evening of the first day in one or more pubs or restaurants in the city centre and continued the conversations there. We’ll try again this time to make a generous reservation and would be happy if you joined us to sit together, chat, and wind down the day. |
| Time | Agenda item |
|---|---|
| - | Morning workshops |
| - | Afternoon workshops |
Performers
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Joschi Kuphal
Designer, programmer, lecturer, event organiser and restless tinkerer from Nuremberg
- Internet
- https://jkphl.is
- Mastodon
- @jkphl@mastodon.social
- joschikuphal
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Tobias Aubele
Professor in the field of usability, human-computer interaction and accessibility, head of the e-commerce degree programme and consultant
- Internet
- https://fiw.thws.de
- tobias-aubele
BarCamp Tickets
As always, we do our best to keep tickets for the BarCamp and workshops as affordable as possible. Please take a moment to explore your ticket options:
- A regular ticket for the BarCamp day costs a minimum of €25 (including German VAT). We'll send you extra love if you use Tito's pay-what-you-want option to increase the price yourself — if the Summit is worth more to you and you'd like to help us make it even better. We recommend starting at €30.
- Not everyone can afford to buy a ticket. If you can, please show your support by purchasing a Scholarship Supporter Ticket starting at €50. This will unlock a free scholarship ticket for someone else — and earn you eternal gratitude. You can also increase the price as you wish!
If you are eligible for a bill without German VAT, please read the notes at the bottom of the ticket page before purchasing.
Ticket scholarships
If you really want to attend the BarCamp but can't afford buying a ticket, please don't hesitate and get in touch with us. We're giving away a free scholarship ticket for every supporter ticket that has been sold. There is no formal application process — please just write us a nice email and let us know a bit about you. We love to help you out! 😊
Workshop Tickets
Workshop tickets for Sunday, 10 May are not yet available. They will be added as soon as the first workshop proposals have been submitted and confirmed. The prices listed below are a preview of the workshop ticket pricing and are intended to give you an early indication of the costs. Participation will continue to be affordable:
- Half-day workshop: €25 (incl. German VAT)
- Full-day workshop: €50 (incl. German VAT)
As before, 80% of the ticket revenue will be passed on directly to the workshop hosts.
IAAP Hosted Certification Exams
We are excited to offer participants the opportunity to sit for official IAAP Certification Exams as part of the Accessibility Club Summit 2026. Available certifications include the
- Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC)
- Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS)
- Accessible Document Specialist (ADS).
These hosted exams provide a quiet and supportive on-site environment with supervision. Please note that registration must be completed directly through the IAAP. Only those who have officially registered, paid the exam fee, and received confirmation and instructions from IAAP are eligible to participate. More information and the registration form can be found at https://certification.accessibilityassociation.org.
We look forward to welcoming all registered candidates at the Summit!
Location
The Summit will be held on the campus of the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS), where Joschi and Tobias also teach. As a state university, the building complex is fully physically accessible.
In and around Würzburg
Würzburg is a beautiful, historic city, nestled among vineyards as far as the eye can see. A visit to the old town is worthwhile not only for the famous “Brückenschoppen”, but also for the hearty, rustic local cuisine and its many sights and landmarks.
As last year, our Summit once again falls on a very special weekend: on Sunday, 10 May, the Würzburg Marathon will take place. Those who enjoy sport might consider taking part in this well-known event. Everyone else should be prepared for longer travel times or the occasional taxi ride when heading to the university on that day.
How do I stay updated?
Slack Team
You can either join the #announcements channel in our Accessibility Club Slack Team. We use the Slack team for organisational tasks as well as community stuff. If you'd like to broaden its purpose and make it an even more open platform, we'd love to hear your ideas!
Hosts
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Joschi Kuphal
Designer, programmer, lecturer, event organiser and restless tinkerer from Nuremberg
Joschi is working on the web since the mid 90s and founded the web agency tollwerk in 2000, which he continues to shape to this day. He has shared leadership of tollwerk with his team in an equal, cooperative and self-organizing way since 2022. He launched a couple of event series like the border:none and Material conferences, the Accessibility Club and the CoderDojo Nürnberg. He's occasionally running IndieWebCamps, hosting the monthly accessibility webcast technica11y and used to be one of the driving forces behind the Nürnberg Digital Festival.
- Internet
- https://jkphl.is
- Mastodon
- @jkphl@mastodon.social
- joschikuphal
- Github
- @jkphl
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Tobias Aubele
Professor in the field of usability, human-computer interaction and accessibility, head of the e-commerce degree programme and consultant
Tobias is a professor of e-commerce at the Technical University Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS) and a consultant. Before joining the university, he worked for more than 15 years in an international multi-channel company in various management positions, most recently as Head of E-Commerce, including with the babywalz brand. He heads the laboratory for conversion optimisation and user experience at the Faculty of Computer Science and Business Informatics.
- Internet
- https://fiw.thws.de
- tobias-aubele