OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:53 Introduction
01:24 Eugene's Background That Led To His Current Role
03:18 What Inspired The Idea for Venngage
06:23 Lessons Learned Being An Entrepreneur of Start-Ups
10:40 How Do You Maintain The Start-Up Culture As A Company Expands
15:04 Venngage's Decision To Focus On Accessibility
19:39 How Venngage Incorporated Accessibility Into Their Product
21:52 Favorite AI Models and Platforms
25:11 Demonstration of Creating An Infographic About Accessibility
36:33 What Are The Testing Processes For Accessibility?
40:08 The Future of Venngage
42:36 Are You Using AI To Build Venngage?
44:03 Have Your Customers' Expectations Changed Since The Use of AI?
46:50 Will AI Democratize Access To Technology or Make It Worse?
48:49 Will AI-based Tools Automatically Make Documents Accessible?
52:33 Wrap Up

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EPISODE LINKS:

Venngage
https://venngage.com

Startup Weekend
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_Weekend_(organization)

ServiceNow Accessibility Statement
https://www.servicenow.com/accessibility-statement.html

Eugene Woo
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yjwoo/

Venngage on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/venngage/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
01:29 Introduction
02:08 How Accessibility Became Part of Molly's Career Path
09:33 Lessons Learned From Working In Start-Ups
13:03 Some of the Companies in Remarkable's Accelerator Cohort
17:21 How Companies Are Chosen by Remarkable
19:27 Remarkable's Funding As A Non-Profit Organization
21:34 How Does Molly Use AI In Her Daily Life
25:20 How Will AI Play A Role In Accessibility
30:20 Startups In Remarkable's Accelerator Cohort This Year
34:54 Introduction To Good Trouble
38:21 How Good Trouble's Co-Founders Teamed Up
40:03 How Accessibility Hardware Benefits A Person With A Disability
41:53 Introduction To AbleToPlay
46:28 How AbleToPlay Has Benefited A Family With Special Needs
48:10 About Vault Labs
53:32 Wrap Up

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EPISODE LINKS:

Remarkable
https://www.remarkable.org

How I AI Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/@howiaipodcast

ServiceNow Releases Voice Agents as part of the AI Experience
https://www.servicenow.com/community/servicenow-ai-platform-blog/servicenow-releases-voice-agents-as-part-of-the-ai-experience/ba-p/3419367

Remarkable 2025 Accelerator US Cohort
https://www.remarkable.org/blog-posts/remarkable-2025-accelerator-us-cohort

Google's Project Relate
https://sites.research.google/relate/

The Ask Grandma Project
https://www.askgrandma.co

Blueberry Technology
https://www.blueberry.technology

Glidance
https://glidance.io

WheelPad
https://www.wheelpad.com

Good Trouble
https://www.goodtrouble.games

AbleToPlay
https://abletoplay.com/pilot

Microsoft Super Bowl Commercial
https://youtu.be/vQYzsiVscNg

Vault Labs
https://vaultlabs.co

Molly Lazarus
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mollymlevitt/

Arman Nobari
https://www.linkedin.com/in/armannobari/
https://armannobari.com

Anthony Gibson
https://www.linkedin.com/in/agibson/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:43 Introduction
01:27 How Using A Screen Reader Is Like Looking Through A Straw
03:38 What Are Earcons?
04:31 Growing Up Blind In Ukraine & Moving To The US
08:53 Victor On Being A Musician
10:11 Why Did You Start Working With Computers?
11:57 Launching A Computer Center For The Blind
14:11 Victor's Advice On Public Speaking
16:12 Communicating The Importance of Accessibility To People Without A Disability
19:09 Role As Google Design Platform Accessibility Lead
21:56 Recommended Courses For Learning About AI
24:27 What Role Does AI Play In Alt Text For Images?
26:31 Future of AI's Role In Accessibility
28:25 What AI Tools Do You Use For Coding?
32:34 Concerns About AI and Accessibility
34:36 The Trolley Problem - Ethical Dilemmas In AI / Waymo
40:19 Victor's Book Suggestions
41:53 Things Sighted People Say To Blind People
45:31 Making Art and Music Accessible
47:27 Wrap Up

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EPISODE LINKS:

Victor Tsaran: An Introduction to Screen Readers
https://youtu.be/izrC4R7SsH4

How Blind Users Experience Youtube | Victor Tsaran | Talks at Google
https://youtu.be/ewCSjiZ7Cdo

Earcon Demonstration
https://youtu.be/sv_swxXGc5s

TEDxSiliconValley - Victor Tsaran - 12/12/09
https://youtu.be/BsJB73c38yw

Braille Writing Devices: Slate and Stylus
https://youtu.be/50XCmWMiM-4

CompuServe
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/yaa0ik/compuserve_internet_access_in_1980_only_500_an/

Material Design
https://m3.material.io
https://m3.material.io/foundations/overview

Service Now - Horizon
https://horizon.servicenow.com
https://horizon.servicenow.com/guidelines/accessibility

Victor Tsaran's Music
https://open.spotify.com/artist/605ZF2JPei9KqgbXBqYA16
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/victor-tsaran/344507896
https://www.youtube.com/@VictorTsaran/releases

Vanderbilt University
https://www.vanderbilt.edu
https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/bio/?pid=jules-white

Andrew Ng's AI For Everyone
https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone

DeepLearning.AI
https://www.deeplearning.ai

Gemini Canvas
https://gemini.google/overview/canvas/

CodeMirror
https://codemirror.net

Visual Studio Code
https://code.visualstudio.com

GNU Emacs
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Cursor
https://cursor.com

Windsurf
https://windsurf.com

Waymo
https://waymo.com

Moral Machine
https://www.moralmachine.net

Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095
https://www.wired.com/story/yanis-varoufakis-technofeudalism-interview/

Emma Donoghue - Author
https://www.emmadonoghue.com

Ep 9 - Matt Ater - Senior Vice President, Vispero
https://youtu.be/n6NGlE3qM3E

Ep 2 - Jennison Asuncion - Head of Accessibility at LinkedIn, Co-Founder of GAAD
https://youtu.be/X4QsrxskWHU

James Teh at NV Access
https://www.nvaccess.org/about-nv-access/

OSARA: Open Source Accessibility for the REAPER Application
https://osara.reaperaccessibility.com

Victor Tsaran's Links
https://www.linkedin.com/in/victortsaran
https://www.youtube.com/@VictorTsaran
https://x.com/vick08

OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:44 Introduction
01:24 What's More Challenging... Coaching Your Employees or Your Son's Little League Team?
03:05 How Was 3Play Media Founded?
09:35 How Pedals Are Used For Captioning/Transcription
10:37 Tracking Metrics of Time, Quality, and Accuracy
13:46 What's The Difference Between Captions vs Subtitles?
18:48 Impact of Accessibility and AI
25:03 Importance of Human Involvement with AI
27:13 Current State of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
32:27 Use of AI Tools Internally At 3Play Media
34:09 How 3Play Media Maintains Its Culture As The Company Expands
36:30 The Different Roles of Each Co-CEO (Josh Miller, Chris Antunes)
39:53 European Accessibility Act and How 3Play Media is Addressing It
44:12 How Gen AI Will Affect Globalization of Accessibility
47:59 How 3Play Media Has Been Recognized for Their Work in Accessibility (Audio Description)
51:44 The Benefits of Audio Description
52:54 Wrap Up

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EPISODE LINKS:

3Play Media
https://www.3playmedia.com

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Report
https://www.3playmedia.com/blog/annual-state-of-asr-study/

European Accessibility Act
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/disability/union-equality-strategy-rights-persons-disabilities-2021-2030/european-accessibility-act_en

3Play Media's ACCESS 2025 Event
https://go.3playmedia.com/en/access/2025-save-the-date

3Play Media's Linktree
https://linktr.ee/3playmedia

Josh Miller on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgmiller3/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:57 Introduction
02:07 Matt's Journey into Accessibility
03:45 About Vispero
06:01 Importance of Working With People With Disabilities
08:06 About The Lighthouse For The Blind
11:44 Induction Into The Kiosk Hall of Fame
17:15 Impact of Gen AI on Accessibility
26:08 Visit to CES Tech Week at Capitol Hill
27:17 About JAWS Picture Smart AI
30:35 Balancing Priorities In Leadership
32:36 Things Sighted People Say To Blind People
38:10 Advice To Newcomers In Accessibility
43:43 Future of Vispero and AI
48:57 Percentage of Websites That Are Accessible
55:35 Wrap Up

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EPISODE LINKS:

Vispero
https://vispero.com

The Lighthouse for the Blind
https://lhblind.org

Kiosk Hall of Fame
https://kioskindustry.org/kiosk-hall-fame/

CES Tech Week at Capitol Hill
https://www.cta.tech/press-releases/ces-on-the-hill-brings-tech-s-biggest-innovators-to-washington

JAWS Picture Smart AI
https://support.freedomscientific.com/About/News/Article/227

Video: Vispero - Empowering Independence
https://youtu.be/XdgVMsB_HNk

Web AIM - Web Accessibility in Mind
https://webaim.org

ArcTouch
https://arctouch.com

Matt Ater on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-ater-b7b96a8/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
01:04 Introduction
04:46 Dylan's Journey into Accessibility
09:38 About Deque Systems / Automating Accessibility
12:04 Axe-con Keynote and Controversy Around Automation
24:22 Understanding the Criticism
25:48 How AI May Affect Developers & Other Positions
32:17 Maintaining A Culture As A Company Grows
41:36 Experience of Writing A Book
49:35 Future of Deque and Gen AI
55:17 Wrap Up

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EPISODE LINKS:

Deque Systems
https://www.deque.com

Axe-con
https://www.deque.com/axe-con

Agile Accessibility Handbook: A Practical Guide to Accessible Software Development At Scale
https://amplifypublishinggroup.com/product/nonfiction/industries/technology/agile-accessibility-handbook-a-practical-guide-to-accessible-software-development-at-scale/

Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
By Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres

The Ride of a Lifetime - By Robert Iger
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/556683/the-ride-of-a-lifetime-by-robert-iger/

Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office
By Bill McDermott with Joanne Gordon
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Winners-Dream/Bill-McDermott/9781476761084

Manus
https://manus.im

Dylan Barrell on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanbarrell/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:36 Introduction
01:35 Working with Victor Tsaran on Accessibility
05:38 Getting Involved with Accessibility
10:47 Soliciting and Maintaining Leadership's Support For Accessibility
13:39 DeafBlind Potter
15:17 European Accessibility Act
18:44 Scaling Accessibility at Intuit
23:00 Incorporating AI at Intuit?
29:39 Personal AI
33:57 Open Source vs Closed Source
36:36 Will AI Replace Testing?
41:15 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference
44:55 Detecting Autism Through Web Browsing
47:12 Raising The Floor
48:46 Advice For Newcomers of Accessibility
52:48 Wrap Up

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EPISODE LINKS:

Intuit
https://www.intuit.com/accessibility

DeafBlind Potter
https://www.deafblindpotter.com

See Me Cane
https://www.seemecane.com

European Accessibility Act
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/disability/union-equality-strategy-rights-persons-disabilities-2021-2030/european-accessibility-act_en

Personal AI
https://www.personal.ai

CSUN Assistive Technology Conference
https://w2.csun.edu/cod/conference

Axe-con Digital Accessibility Conference
https://www.deque.com/axe-con

Inclusive Design 24
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2024

Raising The Floor
https://raisingthefloor.org

Ted Drake's Website
https://www.last-child.com

Ted Drake on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/draket

OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:36 Introduction
01:35 Working On Django
04:35 Future of Generative AI & Accessibility
07:23 Latest Tools & Models (Google Gemini Flash 2.0, Open AI, Video Streaming APIs, Amazon Nova)
11:39 Frontrunners of AI?
14:48 Daily Tools
19:14 LLM Command Line Tool
22:10 Using LLM For Alt Text For Images
24:58 Making LLM More Accessible
32:36 Will AI Replace Jobs?
39:50 The Dangers of AI
43:13 Launching Django
46:52 Datasette Open Source Tool
51:29 Developers Working With The Accessibility Community
57:34 Using NotebookLM To Prepare For This Podcast
1:00:43 Wrap Up

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EPISODE LINKS:

Datasette
https://datasette.io

The Book on Accessibility by Charlie Triplett
https://www.thebookonaccessibility.com

Accessibility Acceptance Criteria
https://www.magentaa11y.com

NotebookLM
https://notebooklm.google

Simon Willison's Blog
https://simonwillison.net

Simon Willison's Social Media
https://x.com/simonw
https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net

OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:31 Introduction
01:18 GitHub Copilot & Developers Announcement
02:16 Getting Involved With Accessibility
04:47 Priorities & Challenges in Accessibility
08:30 Developers + Accessibility
14:54 GitHub Copilot
17:35 Benefits of Using Gen AI
22:36 Haptics vs Other Tech
25:39 Using Sonification To Help Read Charts
29:26 Customer Feedback
33:12 How Conversational AI Will Affect User Interface Development
35:53 Coding Accessibility Video Series
36:50 Future of AI & Accessibility
40:42 What's On Your Wall?
41:48 Wrap Up

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EPISODE LINKS:

GitHub
https://github.com

SAS
https://www.sas.com

Amelia Wattenberger
https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/fish-eye

GitHub - Coding Disability
https://github.com/readme/featured/disability-creativity

GitHub - YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/github

GitHub - Accessibility Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0lo9MOBetEGvxp03Kh3eIlFvIvfE21KF

Physical Intelligence - Robot Folding Laundry
https://www.physicalintelligence.company

SAS - Accessibility
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVBcK_IpFVi9kCxPXz4dd1HO5x_yLLEHJ

SAS - Examining the Details of a Chart Using Sonification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVEflA4dmIk

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PODCAST INFO:

Podcast Website:
https://accessibility-and-gen-ai.simplecast.com

Apple Podcasts:
https://apple.co/46eflnv

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4eEwo3jUSo3aS7wGhlcxs2

RSS:
https://feeds.simplecast.com/nCrQiw1t

LinkTree:
https://linktr.ee/a11ygenai

OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:44 Introduction
01:12 Launching Echo Labs
04:40 Personal Connection To Accessibility
07:05 BuellerBot
10:57 About Echo Labs
14:37 Keeping Up With AI
16:43 Accessibility and Generative AI
20:26 Autonomous Agents
24:44 Artificial General Intelligence
29:48 Will Accessibility Job Be Affected By AI?
33:12 Working With People With Disabilities
37:59 Accessibility Customization
42:47 Inspiration and Passion For Accessibility
49:01 Luna Audio Description
54:29 Captioning Timing (Forced Alignment)
56:56 Wrap Up

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EPISODE LINKS:

Echo Labs
https://el.ai

BuellerBot
https://github.com/EdwardIPAguilar/BuellerBot

arXiv
https://arxiv.org

Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths in Subculture Evolution by David Chapman
https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

alphaXiv
https://www.alphaxiv.org/explore

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PODCAST INFO:

Podcast Website:
https://accessibility-and-gen-ai.simplecast.com

Apple Podcasts:
https://apple.co/46eflnv

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4eEwo3jUSo3aS7wGhlcxs2

RSS:
https://feeds.simplecast.com/nCrQiw1t

LinkTree:
https://linktr.ee/a11ygenai