by Alwar Pillai, CEO and Co-Founder, Fable I started Fable, an accessibility platform powered by people with disabilities because I wanted to change the status quo around accessibility. While creating a platform to research and test products with people with disabilities is a transformative shift, it doesn’t solve the whole problem. We also need to […]
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Wendy Chisholm is a principal accessibility architect at Microsoft. She leads AI for Accessibility, a $25 million grant program that aims to accelerate the development of accessible and intelligent AI solutions that amplify human capability for the more than 1 billion people worldwide with a disability. How did you get your start in accessibility? When […]
The talk highlighted learnings about how to do research with people with facial palsy and the challenges of adapting the headset and creating experiences for them. Marg Laing and Claire Baert covered how user research was brought into the product team and showed examples of how user-centered design techniques were employed. They discussed their collaboration […]
On July 13, 2021, Accessibility New York City hosted a Meetup entitled “I Heart CC: Why and How to Caption Videos Folks Love.” With more captioning DIY apps coming out and captioning built-in apps like Instagram and Tik Tok, there are a lot of bad captions out there. Adding captions to videos is only half […]
Captions in cross-reality (XR) provide an opportunity for participants with language barriers or hearing and speaking differences to communicate across. This talk covered the captions design and implementation (so far) in AltspaceVR from the perspective of one of the engineers who worked on it. In addition, this talk explores how engineering and design teams might […]
On June 1, 2021, Accessibility New York City hosted a Meetup entitled “Accessibility Testing with People with Disabilities: Tips and tricks from the experts at Fable.” Sam Proulx, an Accessibility Evangelist at Fable, talked about why testing with people with disabilities is so important and described what Fable is doing in order to make this […]
Hubs works towards the Mozilla mission of keeping the internet open and accessible to all by providing an ecosystem for communities, organizers, educators, artists, and developers to easily build and deploy innovative web content in a social, open manner. The Mozilla Hubs team highly values the accessibility community’s voice in helping to make Mozilla Hubs […]
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 […]
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 […]