Hosted by Shelly Brisbin.
Why don’t the worlds of mainstream tech and accessibility tech ever seem to collide? Shelly Brisbin, who keeps one foot in each, wants to know. She and her guests from both worlds chew over the news and trends of the day, mixing in an accessibility perspective.
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#63: The Standards Can't Tell You Where Delight Is
November 23rd, 2021 · 31 minutes
Christin Hemphill works with companies to build inclusive experiences for customers and employees. That's a fancy way of saying that your bank, your onboarding materials and your VR game should all be accessible to you.
#62: UX Design and Cognitive Disability
November 9th, 2021 · 49 minutes
Rain Michaels wears many hats. She is a UX designer at Google, and she is also one of the maintainers for accessibility on the community-developed Drupal content management system, and a co-chair of W3C’s Cognitive Accessibility task force.
#61: How to Make Extended Reality an Accessible Reality
October 26th, 2021 · 29 minutes
Virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality – extended reality, or XR – should include everyone, whether they have a disability or not. Reginé Gilbert is working to teach designers of the future how to make their XR experiences fully inclusive.
#60: Tech Inclusion and Indigenous Peoples
October 14th, 2021 · 42 minutes
Indigenous people often face an array of barriers to economic opportunity. Poverty, oppression and simple lack of access to the Internet service are among them. We'll talk about expanding opportunity to indigenous communities in Canada.
#59: Apple Event: Takes Served at a Pleasing Temperature
September 21st, 2021 · 63 minutes
Three Apple news junkies give the company's fall product announcement event a few days to settle. We weigh in on all the new hardware announcements and what we imagine could come next.
#58: #GAAD: Beyond the Hashtag
September 15th, 2021 · 38 minutes
Ten years ago, a pair of accessibility advocates created Global Accessibility Awareness Day, or #GAAD. The annual event now attracts Fortune 500 companies, including Apple, Google and Microsoft. Cofounder Joe Devon says, #GAAD is still about developers.
#57: Web Accessibility Testing on Mobile
August 17th, 2021 · 47 minutes
#56: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Tech
August 3rd, 2021 · 61 minutes
We discuss how to achieve and sustain true DEI in tech and STEM fields for women, people of color and people with disabilities. Our guest is an educator, an engineer and an advocate for meaningful DEI in all kinds of tech workplaces.
#55: I Think I'm Part of a MISSION
July 20th, 2021 · 34 minutes
NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory catalogs exploding stars, black holes and more, turning them into visualizations. How can someone who is blind share in the beauty and the science of the images Chandra data scientists create? You're about to find out.
#54: Indoor Navigation: We're Working on the Sighted Experience
July 6th, 2021 · 28 minutes
Tech-assisted navigation means more than using your phone or to find your way outside. Improving indoor navigation has long been a project for people with blindness and low vision, but its importance is growing for venues and tech companies, too.