Q&A With Heather Burns, Accessibility Consultant, Equal Entry
Heather Burns is a program manager at heart, passionately curious, always looking for ways to improve anything she can. After a 20-plus-year career at Microsoft, she’s excited to...
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Interviews with people who work in accessibility and disability inclusion: what they do, how they got started, and their advice for others.
Q&A With Lori Samuels, Senior Director of Accessibility, NBCUniversal
Lori Samuels is the Senior Director of Accessibility at NBCUniversal. She leads strategic accessibility programs to institute best practices in inclusive design, provide training...
Q&A With Lainey Feingold, Disability Rights Lawyer
Lainey Feingold is a disability rights lawyer who has worked in the digital accessibility space since 1995. She helped negotiate the first web accessibility agreement in the United...
Q&A With Alycia Anderson, TEDx speaker and Corporate Inclusion Consultant
Alycia Anderson is an accomplished TEDx motivational speaker, published writer, corporate inclusion consultant, and founder of The Alycia Anderson Company. Alycia’s authenticity...
Q&A With Sheri Byrne-Haber, Senior Staff Architect, Accessibility at VMWare
Sheri Byrne-Haber is a prominent global subject matter expert in the fields of disability and accessibility in business and educational settings. She is best known for launching...
Q&A With Christine Hemphill, Managing Director at Open Inclusion
Christine Hemphill is an inclusive researcher, designer, and innovator. She is the Managing Director of Open Inclusion, a global agency based in the UK that she founded in 2015 to...
Q&A With Devon Persing, Accessibility Specialist at Shopify
Devon Persing is an accessibility specialist at Shopify, and has been working in digital accessibility since 2012. Her current focus is on accessibility programming and education...
Q&A With Wendy Chisholm, Principal Accessibility Architect, Microsoft
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...
Q&A With Rich Schwerdtfeger, Co-Creator and Former Chair of the W3C WAI-ARIA Accessibility Standards
Rich Schwerdtfeger was the CTO for Accessibility at IBM and chairman of the board for Knowbility. He helped develop the first GUI screen reader for the IBM PC. Rich has led...
Q&A With Roland Dubois, Product Design Manager & UX Lead, Shop-Ware
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...
Q&A With Matt May, Head of Inclusive Design, Adobe
Matt 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...
Q&A With Samantha Evans, Certification Manager, IAAP
Samantha Evans is the Certification Manager at the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP). Her role focuses on promoting, guiding, and developing a series...
Q&A With Daman Wandke, CEO and Founder, Wandke Consulting
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...
Q&A With Sharron Rush, Executive Director, Knowbility
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...
Q&A With Dr. Joel Snyder, President, Audio Description Associates, LLC
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,...
Q&A With Meryl Evans, Digital Marketing Expert
Meryl K. Evans is a Digital Marketing Pro, and author of Brilliant Outlook Pocketbook and the co-author of Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites. How did you get...
Q&A With Sarah Pulis, Co-Founder, Intopia
Sarah Pulis has worked in digital accessibility and inclusive design for over 10 years. She co-founded Intopia over 4 years ago which is now the largest digital accessibility...
Q&A With Bill Curtis-Davidson, Sr. Consultant for Emerging Tech Accessibility, Wheelhouse Group
Bill Curtis-Davidson is a Senior Consultant – Emerging Tech Accessibility at Wheelhouse Group, supporting PEAT’s Future of Work Initiative. In this role, he works to advance...
Q&A With Mariella Paulino, Founder, Project Hearing
Mariella Paulino creates systems and tools that center on helping people interact better with the world around them. As a Deaf technologist, she has worked in tech as a software...
Q&A With Larry Goldberg, Head of Accessibility, Verizon Media
Larry Goldberg leads Accessibility at Verizon Media. In 1990, he founded and directed the WGBH National Center for Accessible Media, an R&D center for new media policy, standards...
Q&A With Debra Ruh, CEO and Founder, Ruh Global IMPACT
Debra Ruh is a Global Disability Inclusion Strategist, Market Influencer, internationally recognized keynote speaker, published author, branding expert, successful entrepreneur,...
Q&A With Xian Horn, Contributor at Forbes Online
Xian Horn is a joyful half-Asian woman with Cerebral Palsy who serves as a teacher, speaker, beauty advocate, blogger and Exemplar for the AT&T NYU Connect Ability Challenge toward...
Q&A With Regine Gilbert, UX Designer and Educator, NYU
Regine Gilbert is a user experience designer, educator, and international public speaker with over 10 years of experience working in the technology arena. She has a strong belief...
Q&A With John Samuel, Head of LCI Tech
In celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, we are excited to feature John Samuel, Head of LCI Tech, a North Carolina-based firm that employs Americans with...
Q&A With Makoto Ueki, Director, Infoaxia, Inc.
Makoto Ueki is a web accessibility expert based in Tokyo, Japan. His company Infoaxia provides a wide range of accessibility consulting services with full support for compliance...
Q&A With Jennison Asuncion, Engineering Manager, Accessibility, LinkedIn
How did you get started in accessibility? The summer after graduating from high school, I had the opportunity to participate in a program called SCORE (Summer Computer...
Q&A With Ruth Starr, Accessibility Manager, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Ruth Starr is an arts administrator and educator currently serving as the inaugural Accessibility Manager at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Cooper Hewitt is committed to...
Q&A With Emily Ladau, Activist and Digital Communications Consultant
Emily Ladau is a passionate disability rights activist and digital communications consultant whose career began at the age of 10, when she appeared on several episodes of Sesame...
Q&A With Christopher Hills, Switch Accessibility and Video Production Engineer
Christopher Hills is a Switch Accessibility and Video Production Engineer based in Brisbane, Australia. He is a passionate storyteller, utilizing the power of video and technology...
Q&A With Léonie Watson, Accessibility Engineer and Director, TetraLogical
Léonie Watson is Director of TetraLogical, an inclusive design company focused on emerging and existing technologies, customer experience, and research and development, combined...
Q&A With Avi Golden, Paramedic and Speech Language Pathologist
In early June 2007, at 33 years of age, Avi Golden was admitted to Columbia Hospital in New York for surgery on an mitral valve prolapse (MVP) repair that was discovered near the...
Q&A with Cameron Cundiff, Software Engineering Leader
Cameron Cundiff is a software engineering leader with a focus on Voice UI and digital accessibility. His work in accessibility has been recognized by the White House, and others....
Q&A with Jonathan Paul Katz, Civil Servant and Writer
Jonathan Paul Katz is a civil servant and writer in New York City. For his job, he writes content and makes accessible communications for a City agency. He is interested in access...
Q&A with Adina Halter, Sr. Product Manager and Chief Technologist for Accessibility at Comcast
Adina Halter is Sr. Product Manager and Chief Technologist for Accessibility at Comcast where she ensures the accessibility of all Comcast products from web, to mobile apps, set...
Q&A with Grace Jun, Assistant Professor at the School of Fashion at Parsons School of Design
Grace Jun is a designer, educator, and social entrepreneur based in New York. By merging fashion with technology, she pushes the boundaries of universal design to be inclusive of...
Q&A with Tim Springer, CEO of Level Access
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Tim Springer, CEO of Level Access. He also led the development of InFocus, the first commercial software...
Q&A with Karen Gourgey, Chair of the Executive Board of the NY State Commission for the Blind
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Karen Gourgey, Chair of the Executive Board of the NY State Commission for the Blind. She has also...
Q&A with Damian Sian, Senior Web Accessibility Advisor for Princeton University
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Damian Sian, Senior Web Accessibility Advisor for Princeton University. Sian is also the owner of...
Q&A with Ken Nakata, Director of Accessibility Consulting at Cryptzone
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Ken Nakata, the Director of Accessibility Consulting at Cryptzone. Nakata is the former Senior Trial...
Q&A with Bryan Garaventa, Founder of WhatSock
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Bryan Garaventa. He is the founder of WhatSock and an Accessibility Fellow at SSB BART Group....
Q&A with Niclas Bergström, CEO of ReadSpeaker
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Niclas Bergström, CEO of ReadSpeaker. ReadSpeaker converts text to speech on a variety of devices...
Q&A with John Huth, Librarian for The Child’s Place in Brooklyn
This month’s installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with John Huth, Young Adult Librarian for The Child’s Place in Brooklyn. He collaborates with...
Q&A with Tiffany Yu, Founder of Diversability
This month’s installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Tiffany Yu, the Director of Business Development at REVOLT Media & TV. Yu is also the founder of...
Q&A with Svetlana Kouznetsova, Founder of Audio Accessibility
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,...
Q&A with Akash Khanolkar, Founder of CrowdViz
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Akash Khanolkar, founder of CrowdViz, a company that connects people who are visually impaired with...
Q&A with Bob Paradiso, Independent Rehab Engineer
The newest installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Bob Paradiso, Independent Rehab Engineer. With a background in programming video games, Paradiso...
Q&A with Beth Rosenberg, Founder of Tech Kids Unlimited
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...
Q&A with Jonathan Avila, Chief Accessibility Officer
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...
Q&A with Mirabai Knight, Realtime Captioner
This 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...
Q&A with John Kirkwood, Entrepreneur
This 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...
Q&A with Thad Johnston: Making a Physical Board Game Accessible for Blind and Low Vision Players
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...