Roland Dubois is the Product Design Manager and UX Lead at Shop-Ware, XR Accessibility at Virtuleap, publisher of the WebXRNews.com Newsletter, and creator of GRAVR — a globally recognized avatar for VR on the web. How did you get your start in accessibility? Early in my career as a designer and coder, I used many […]
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On April 27, 2021, Accessibility New York City hosted a Meetup entitled “Accessing Innovation.” Presenter Cat Noone — a product designer, co-founder, and CEO of Stark — the startup making the world’s software accessible, and in turn compliant, by providing integrated tools that live inside the software designers and developers know and love. Her focus […]
Q&A With Matt May, Head of Inclusive Design, Adobe
Apr 27, 2021Matt May is Adobe’s head of inclusive design. His work includes integrating inclusive design practices across every aspect of the Adobe user experience, training and mentoring the Adobe Design team, and advocating principles of accessibility and inclusive design to the public at large. How did you get your start in accessibility? I was working as […]
Virtual reality (VR) offers new and compelling ways for users to interact with digital content. These include immersive experiences that are beneficial in various domains, such as gaming, training simulations, education, communication, and design. As VR technologies mature and commercial VR systems grow, an opportunity exists to understand how to incorporate accessibility as a fundamental […]
Q&A With Samantha Evans, Certification Manager, IAAP
Mar 25, 2021Samantha Evans is the Certification Manager at the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP). Her role focuses on promoting, guiding, and developing a series of professional and technical certification programs to establish benchmarks of accessibility skills and knowledge. How did you get your start in accessibility? Like most people in the accessibility community, I came […]
With a lifelong passion for Disability Advocacy, entrepreneur Daman Wandke has ten years of experience testing IT Accessibility in the public and private sector. He has worked with small local businesses to multinational corporations ensuring that people with disabilities have equal access to websites and mobile apps. In addition to providing access to the digital […]
On August 18, 2020, Accessibility New York City hosted a Meetup entitled “Providing Remote Services for The Disability Community During The Pandemic.” Presenter Jonathon Epstein — a community organizer specializing in transition, employment, and volunteer services — outlined how government agencies, non-profits, and cultural institutions are working together to support members of the disability community […]
Sharron Rush is the award-winning co-founder and Executive Director of Knowbility, nonprofit advocacy, consulting, and training company based in Austin, Texas. Since 1998, Sharron has been a leader in raising awareness and skills around the issue of access to technology for people with disabilities. How did you get your start in accessibility? In the mid-1990s, […]
The Oculus Developer Blog has published a post in November called Introducing the Accessibility VRCs. These nine Virtual Reality Checks (VRC) are a set of technical recommendations designed to help developers create more accessible software for the Quest and Rift platforms. It is a good sign when a prominent tech company like Facebook begins to […]
Dr. Joel Snyder is President of Audio Description Associates, LLC and Director of the Audio Description Project, American Council of the Blind. One of the first audio describers, Snyder is a true pioneer in the audio description field. He’s won many awards including the 2014 Vernon Henley Media Award for promoting and furthering the availability […]