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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

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

My passion for accessible technology was ignited sixteen years ago at the University of North Carolina when I was a Computer Science undergraduate.  I worked on a small team software project with a graduate student, Jason Morris, who was blind and needed access to maps of the ancient world for his research in the Classics Department

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Thomas Logan, Equal Entry CEO, recently delivered a presentation at Princeton University about APS technology.

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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 partners, including schools and community-based organizations, to provide high quality information services to underserved young people, including those with disabilities.