Digital Accessibility
Joe Welinske
Interviews with accomplished accessibility professionals to learn about their career journeys
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Jan 30, 2022 • 21min
A Little Yellow Sticky Note With the Word Accessibility on It
Lori Samuels, NBCUniversal, Accessibility DirectorLori talks about her early exposure to the discrimination her disabled sister experienced in school. She describes her professional introduction to accessibility working with consumer multimedia software and then helping to build the accessibility program at Intuit.
Jan 23, 2022 • 29min
Lower the Barriers, Reduce Accommodations and be more Inclusive
Jon Gunderson, U. of Illinois Coordinator of Accessible IT GroupJon relates an interesting history about the pioneering support for accessibility at the U. of Illinois. He talks about building out technologies for students and faculty at the university and also his work with the W3C ARIA working group.
Jan 16, 2022 • 31min
Passion about Mobile Devices as the Key to Greater Independence
Kisiah Timmons, Yahoo, Principal Technical Program ManagerKisiah talks about going blind right after finishing college and the significant challenges of gaining employment at that time. She describes her work to improve support for assistive technologies in a variety mobile devices, tablets, and the associated apps.
Jan 9, 2022 • 23min
All of it Stems from Passion and Empathy with Matthew Luken
Matthew Luken, U.S. Bank, Vice President - Digital AccessibilityMatthew talks about his work teaching and building the accessibility team at US Bank. He describes his career in aviation which brought him into system engineering and then into web design and user experience.
Jan 2, 2022 • 22min
Incorporating Accessibility into UX Education from the Beginning
Reginé Gilbert, NYU Assistant ProfessorReginé talks about growing up with a family member who is deaf and taking that awareness into her UX studies and the digital accessibility community. She describes her research evaluating the accessibility associated with immersive technologies.
Dec 26, 2021 • 30min
We Believed in 'Nothing About Us Without Us' with Bryce Johnson
Bryce Johnson, Microsoft, Co-inventor of the Xbox Adaptive ControllerBryce Johnson talks about his early work building web pages and how that lead to accessibility consulting and his current work with console gaming.
Dec 19, 2021 • 36min
It’s Not Magic, It Doesn’t Just Happen with Whitney Quesenbery
Whitney Quesenbery talks about her career encompassing user research and the design of vote-casting. She describes the influences for the role-based format of her book A Web for Everyone. Center for Civic DesignA Web for Everyone
Dec 12, 2021 • 3min
Coming Soon
Series Host Joe Welinske previews the guests appearing in the next several episodes.
Dec 5, 2021 • 3min
Welcome to the Series
Host Joe Welinske introduces himself and the show - Interviews with accomplished accessibility professionals to learn about their career journeys.
