Media
Interviews, podcasts, webinars, and press coverage about Digital Accessibility Ethics.
A framework for making tech more accessible to all (Texas Standard Public Radio)
Most people can agree that accessible technology is a good thing — even an essential thing. Accessibility allows people with a variety of disabilities to use the web, apps or other digital tools required to do one’s job, attend school and perform life tasks. But what’s actually needed to make full inclusion happen, and what can organizations do to make it happen? These are a few of the questions at the heart of “Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in all Things Tech,” a new book written and edited by experts in the field, respresenting many disabilities and many parts of the world.
Design as an Act of Inclusion (Talk Cocktail Podcast with Jeff Schechtman)
The digital world is being rebuilt around AI, and for the first time in a generation the concrete of that world is still wet. Lainey Feingold thinks that's the opportunity! Technology can now read any text aloud, describe any image, caption any voice in real time — the most powerful equalizer disabled people have ever had, if it's designed in rather than bolted on. Feingold, a disability rights lawyer who won talking ATMs and accessible banking without ever filing a lawsuit, has gathered thirty-nine authors from ten countries into Digital Accessibility Ethics. Their case: build for the person at the edge and everyone gets a better product. Who do we decide to build for?