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Barry Bealer

Barry Bealer is currently the Chief Revenue Officer of Access Innovations, makers of the Data Harmony Suite and Data Harmony Hub. As an entrepreneurial leader in the software and information industry, he enjoys building and managing teams to execute sound business strategies. Barry has held executive positions at both global enterprises and software startups including co-founding the first enterprise XML content management system software company. For over 30-years he has brought structure and process to business practices to execute more efficiently and profitably. Barry is a frequent speaker and moderator at industry events and has been involved as a board or committee member of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), and the W3C Accessibility Education and Outreach Working Group. He holds an MBA with a concentration in Information Systems from St. Joseph’s University and a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Millersville University.
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Why are organizations continuing to be blind to accessibility?
When we see a person struggling in a wheelchair to navigate a curb with no ramp, we get frustrated and help the person out. In most cases we don't see people who are struggling to read digital content and therefore the issue is not as obvious to the public. It is not until a lawsuit has been filed that the public hears about the persistent issues around digital content accessibility. Even today, we have organizations that have not addressed accessibility to make digital content available to the sight impaired. Why are businesses and organizations still blind to accessibility and what can they do to become compliant?

The evolution of accessibility: upgrading the experience for all users
From learning disorders to reading disorders to hearing, visual, and physical impairments, how do we ensure that every user is able to use the library to its fullest potential? This session will discuss the needs of ALL users, and answer a range of questions: How should digital services support the different kinds of accessibility requirements? How do we make all aspects of library systems equally available to all users by adhering to accessibility standards and usability best practices? How do we actually comprehend our users’ accessibility needs in the first place? And how do we keep our services continuously up-to-date in order to meet our users’ accessibility needs as we deploy new tools in our libraries?

Looking for an accessible open science: overcoming barriers within SciELO Network 
People with disabilities and / or the elderly, who currently represent 45% of the world population, especially those associated with Higher Education and research institutions, have reported significant difficulties in guaranteeing their rights to accessible information. Therefore, it is important to portray the current situation of accessibility in the interfaces of the SciELO Brazil collection and in their respective digital assets. In light of this objective, an accessibility assessment was carried out on the SciELO Network website pages. The results indicated absences of: alternative text for images; link labels; page language indication; among others. Considering 82,716 (19.5%) scientific articles from 9,045 volumes published between 2017 and 2020, 205,921 figures and 173,976 tables were prospected. Although 95.05% of the tables are encoded in HTML (98.29% with descriptive labels and 98.18% with captions), none of the analyzed articles presented essential elements for the transmission of information to assistive technologies. This scenario highlights the need to adopt standards to promote accessibility in all stages of the flow of production and dissemination of knowledge.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning systems have been heavily discussed, but what is actually being done using them? These speakers will present a variety of practical applications for AI/ML in the information ecosystem, and then open the floor to discussion about future needs in the AI/ML space.
Consultant Barry Bealer will address the question of how organizations can successfully procure the best technology that will have the greatest impact for their purposes while minimizing the disruption to the organizational workflow. Today more than ever legacy systems need to be replaced and new technologies need to be incrementally embraced to keep up with changing business and delivery models. In this session Barry will review best practices for procuring technology to minimize the impact on the organization while gaining more efficiencies and organizational flexibility.
Building successful, collaborative teams requires more than just picking people with a specific set of skills. Managers must also balance the need to support their team’s motivation and enthusiasm with planning requirements and time constraints.  What are best practices for team communications? How can you ensure collective, as well as individual, accountability? What are the best ways of handling those “awkward” conversations that inevitably arise?  When do you negotiate with your team and when are you justified in making demands of them?  This roundtable discussion brought together a group of experienced managers from across the information community to share the lessons they’ve learned, as well as their secrets for success. Confirmed speakers include Deni Auclair, Editorial Director, HSS Journals and US Partnerships, DeGruyter; Barry Bealer, Chief Revenue Officer, Access Innovations; Heather Staines, Senior Consultant and Director of Community Engagement, DeltaThink; and Tony Zanders, Founder and CEO, Skilltype. 
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