The latest installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Svetlana Kouznetsova, founder of Audio Accessibility, a consulting service that helps make audio, videos, and events accessible for deaf people. In addition to her work in accessibility, Kouznetsova also works in user experience and product management. When did you first get started in accessibility? […]
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Q&A with Bob Paradiso, Independent Rehab Engineer
Dec 23, 2015The newest installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Bob Paradiso, Independent Rehab Engineer. With a background in programming video games, Paradiso now modifies electronics and hardware to enable people to do more. When did you first get started in accessibility? Maybe it was when I first started playing around with hacking a […]
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Beth Rosenberg, founder of Tech Kids Unlimited, an educational organization for kids ages 8 to 18 with special needs. When did you first get started in accessibility? As I have a child with a disability, I become active in the world of accessibility around 2008. I […]
One of the holy grails of computing is to one day be able to have machines perform perfect speech recognition. The ability to control computers with speech benefits everyone, but can be specifically powerful for people with disabilities. Many people are unable to use a mouse or keyboard due to physical constraints. Additionally, people may […]
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Jonathan Avila, Chief Accessibility Officer for SSB Bart Group. Avila is also a participant in the WCAG Working Group, and the mobile accessibility task force at the WAI. When did you first get started in accessibility? I worked at a summer family vacation retreat/camp for […]
Q&A with Mirabai Knight, Realtime Captioner
Jul 1, 2015This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Mirabai Knight, a realtime captioner. Knight is also a contributor to the StenoSpeak for Android project. When did you first get started in accessibility? You could argue that my first entry into accessibility was in third grade when we were given the assignment to invent something and […]
Q&A with John Kirkwood, Entrepreneur
Mar 6, 2015This installment of our Accessibility Activists is an interview with John Kirkwood from CityMouse, one of New York’s first independent Internet media agencies. When did you first get started in accessibility? Well, accessibility has always been a part of our government standards and guidelines I wrote since I built the first official website for the City of […]
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Alexander Shutov, creator of Dark Reader, a Chrome plugin that adjusts the color contrast in your browser to make it more readable. When did you begin work on Dark Reader? Working as a software engineer, I was staring at a screen all day long […]
Let’s start from the beginning. How did you come up with the idea of making a board game be accessible? It started early last year, in March, when I started working with a student at Colorado State University named Adam, who is blind. I was supposed to work with him to help him in one […]
Zuma, a tile-matching puzzle video game created by PopCap Games, continues to be one of the most popular free games on the internet. During play, colored balls roll around the screen on a set path, and players attempt to eliminate these balls by firing like-colored balls at them from a stone frog’s mouth, in an […]