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"If you had to choose, would you have a human captioner or an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter at a live online event?" Equal Entry's Owner Thomas Logan asked me.

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.

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 developer, designer, and now as a project manager and is passionate about the intersection of technology with social impact initiatives that create inclusion, accessibility, and equity.

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 the creation of Assistive Technology. In addition to her work as an accessibility advocate, she is a contributing writer at Forbes Online.

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 in making the world a more accessible place—one that starts and ends with the user.

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 aortic valve in his heart. During the surgery, Avi experienced a stroke on the left side of his brain, leaving him with right-sided paralysis, and profound aphasia, which proceeded to wreak havoc with his life. Since 2009, Avi has volunteered his time at the Adler Aphasia Center, where he participates in the educational training of medical residents, medical students and other health care professionals who are preparing for a career in a medical field. He is eager to help others in need and devoted to his job as a paramedic

On Tuesday, October 16, 2018, Equal Entry Owner Thomas Logan presented "Why Wait? Let's Make Virtual Reality Accessible Today!" at #a11yTOConf 2018. The premise of the talk was that we can apply a lot of existing accessibility guidelines to make virtual reality accessible.

With 948,208 people with disabilities living in the five boroughs of New York City as of 2014, the availability of accessible transit options is of immense importance in order for us to remain active, engaged members of our community and take advantage of everything the city has to offer. Although I've been living in NYC for over 10 years and have had my disability my entire life, I only began exploring accessible transportation options a few years ago