Accessibility and Gen AI Podcast

By Eamon McErlean, Joe DevonBusiness Technology

Accessibility and Gen AI Podcast episodes

October 05 Darryl Adams, Founder of Access Insights
OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:54 Introduction
01:32 Diagnosis at Age 14 & Personal Journey
03:38 Mental Health & Vision Loss
05:39 Early Career at AOL
08:23 The Power of Sighted Guiding
11:48 Sighted Guiding Etiquette & Best Practices
14:05 Adopting Assistive Technology at Intel
17:09 Building an Accessibility Career
18:24 Rethinking Interfaces with AI
24:37 Darryl’s Daily AI Workflow
32:28 Future of Work: AI Risks & Rewards
37:09 Career Advice for Accessibility Professionals
39:37 Inside Intel: Chips & Software
43:55 Access Insights: Co-Design, Research & Scale
49:43 Closing Thoughts
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EPISODE LINKS:
Access Insights
https://accessinsights.net
Unison OS
https://unisonos.ai
OpenAI - Codex
https://openai.com/codex/
Verilog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilog
Darryl Adams on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dadamspdx/
53 min
August 24 Stephen Cluskey, Co-Founder & CEO of Mobility Mojo
OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:46 Introduction
02:50 What Caused Your Spinal Cord Injury and How Did You Overcome The Challenges That Came With It?
09:05 What Role Has Sports Played In Your Life?
16:45 How Did You Become Involved With Accessibility?
22:57 Tell Us About Mobility Mojo
25:11 What's Your Experience Using Assistive Devices For Work and Travel?
34:33 What Are Your Thoughts On Using AI For Business?
36:45 Benefits of Using AI For Personal Health & Medical Needs
41:16 How Did You Get Involved With Public Speaking?
44:36 Accessibility's Positive Impact On Business
47:14 Wrap Up
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EPISODE LINKS:
Mobility Mojo
https://mobilitymojo.com
Lottery winners and accident victims: is happiness relative?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/690806/
Alex Zanardi - Racing driver and para-cyclist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Zanardi
Alex Zanardi On the Crash That Changed His Life Forever | David Letterman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyoY7hVwLU0
James Cluskey (Stephen's brother)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cluskey
The Official London Black Cab
https://www.londonblackcab.co.uk
A11y + Gen AI - Ep 5 - Ed Summers - Head of Accessibility, GitHub
https://youtu.be/YBQdpJfWBCA
Jen Hamilton & Ed Summers Viral TikTok Video
https://www.tiktok.com/@_jen_hamilton_/video/7617247595085270285
HeadMouse Nano
https://www.orin.com/access/headmouse/
MouthPad
https://www.augmental.tech
Claude Fable
https://www.anthropic.com/claude/fable
Stephen Cluskey on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephencluskey/
Stephen Cluskey's Website
https://stephencluskey.com
49 min
July 13 Steven Scott & Shaun Preece, Hosts of Double Tap
OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:34 Introduction
01:08 How Did You Meet and Launch The Show?
08:07 What is AMI (Accessible Media Inc.)?
10:05 How Did Shaun Become Involved with Podcasting?
12:33 What's The Goal of Double Tap?
20:48 Who's The Team Behind Double Tap?
23:42 How Do You Prepare For Each Episode?
27:38 How Has Accessibility Changed Over The Years?
29:35 Why Is It Still Challenging For Some Companies To Understand The Benefits of Accessibility?
31:31 Is Accessibility As Widespread As Some Companies Proclaim?
35:21 Increasing Employment of People with a Disability Could Encourage Accessibility
38:00 How GAAD Is Embraced By Some Companies & Organizations
42:26 Shaun's Idea of Compulsory Disability For The Entire Population
43:23 Steven's Idea For A Netflix Series About A Blind Serial Killer
44:11 How Will AI Affect Accessibility?
46:57 Vibe Coding Is A Lot Easier Than People Think
55:28 How Steven Created An Accessible Radio For Blind People
01:02:09 Wrap Up
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EPISODE LINKS:
Double Tap - Where Blind People Talk Tech
https://doubletaponair.com
Joe Devon & Eamon McErlean on Double Tap - Feb 2, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xtFwb3MPzE
Joe Devon on Double Tap - May 15, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Nr6bZRzPI
AMI
https://www.ami.ca
RNIB
https://www.rnib.org.uk
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)
https://accessibility.day
Claude
https://claude.com
Mastodon
https://mastodon.social
NEO Home Robot
https://www.1x.tech/discover/neo-home-robot
Steven Scott on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-scott-7640bbbb/
Double Tap on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/doubletaponair/
1 hr 5 min
April 23 Eric Provencher, Founder of Repo Prompt
OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
01:26 Introduction
02:39 Eric's Career Path To Launching Repo Prompt
08:01 Making The Decision To Launch Repo Prompt
10:32 What Is A Context Window And Why Does it Matter?
13:38 What Is Repo Prompt Used For?
18:08 How Do You Solicit Feedback From The Users?
21:02 OpenClaw vs Hermes
24:36 Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering
26:54 Repo Prompt Demonstration and Workflow
45:28 What Have You Learned As An Entreprenuer?
46:38 Why You Should Use Open Source Models with Caution
52:53 Keeping Accessibility In Mind When Coding
01:00:01 Wrap Up
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EPISODE LINKS:
Repo Prompt
https://repoprompt.com
Unity
https://unity.com
OpenClaw
https://openclaw.ai
Hermes Agent
https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
Cursor
https://cursor.com
Claude Code
https://claude.com/product/claude-code
Eric Provencher on X
https://x.com/pvncher
Eric Provencher on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/provencher
1 hr 1 min
March 23 Fred Moltz of Verizon & Stephen Ewell of CTA Foundation
OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:46 Introduction
01:48 Fred's Journey To Being Chief Accessibility Officer at Verizon
03:07 About CES & Commitment to Accessibility
05:56 Developing The Accessibility Stage at CES
15:48 Idea Behind The Accessibility Stage at CES
21:56 How Verizon Embraced Accessibility
27:29 Steve's Path To His Role At CTA Foundation
34:23 How To Integrate Accessibility At A Corporation
39:11 How Accessibility Can Benefit Everyone
40:21 Importance of Creating Awareness About Accessibility
43:17 Who's Impacted By Accessibility
45:38 Favorite Use of AI and Accessibility Working Together
56:36 Proudest Career Moment vs What You Would Do Differently
01:02:39 Future of the Accessibility Stage at CES
01:08:45 Wrap Up
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EPISODE LINKS:
Verizon - Accessibility Resource Center
https://www.verizon.com/accessibility
CTA Foundation
https://www.ctafoundation.tech
CES
https://www.ces.tech
Stephen Ewell on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveewell/
Fred Moltz on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fred-moltz-b730b713/
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1 hr 10 min
March 02 Denny Vrandečić - Head of Special Projects at Wikimedia Foundation
OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:46 Introduction
01:34 What's The Relationship Between Wikimedia and Wikipedia?
02:02 Denny's Professional Background & Current Role
05:32 What is The Semantic Web?
07:58 Original Proposal For The Web vs The Semantic Web
14:12 When Denny Locked Sir Tim Berners-Lee, The Inventor of The Web, In His Car
15:09 What Is A Knowledge Graph?
19:57 About The New Project, Abstract Wikipedia
30:06 Using Functions vs LLMs for Language Translations
40:19 Using AI For Accessibility
44:14 World Models vs. Large Language Models
51:25 How To Support Wikipedia & Contact Denny
54:13 Wrap Up
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EPISODE LINKS:
Wikipedia
https://www.wikipedia.org
Wikimedia Foundation
https://wikimediafoundation.org
Abstract Wikipedia
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia
Contact Denny Vrandečić
https://mas.to/@vrandecic
Denny Vrandečić on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vrandecic/
Denny Vrandečić on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/vrandezo
56 min
February 16 Eamon McErlean & Joe Devon - AIMAC: The AI Model Accessibility Checker
OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:50 Introduction
02:23 The Importance and Goals of AIMAC
06:03 Service Now's Priority for Accessibility
12:09 Challenges of Developing AIMAC
17:25 What is AIMAC and how does it function?
21:41 Part of What Inspired AIMAC
24:50 Using OpenRouter - The Unified Interface for LLMs
29:08 AIMAC's Leaderboard of AI Models and How They Ranked
37:03 Examples of System & User Prompts and the Generated HTML Pages
39:56 Using AIMAC For Your Own LLM
40:54 What Surprised Joe The Most (The Results)
43:32 Webpage Previews Generated By All Models For Multiple Categories
44:56 How To Provide Feedback or Contact Joe re: AIMAC
48:56 Pareto Frontier Chart Measures Quality & Cost
51:35 Demonstration of How AIMAC Benefits Screen Readers For People Who Are Visually Impaired
01:06:07 Results of Using MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
01:09:57 Top 6 Accessibility Issues Caused By AI Models
01:11:58 How Em Dashes Generated by AI Model Affects Accessibility
01:14:13 Wrap Up
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EPISODE LINKS:
AIMAC: The AI Model Accessibility Checker
https://aimac.ai
ServiceNow Accessibility Statement
https://www.servicenow.com/accessibility-statement.html
GAAD Foundation
https://gaad.foundation
Accessibility at ServiceNow
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCOmiTb5WX3q5qCG_QqYip2IZrvao7Bwp
Webpage Sample:
https://aimac.ai/output/reports/current/assets/html/gemini-3-pro-preview/sports-1408
Axe-core - Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing
https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core
A11y LLM Eval
https://microsoft.github.io/a11y-llm-eval-report/
CodeGen Model Eval and Refine Tools
https://github.com/aarongustafson/CodeGen-Model-Eval-and-Refine-Tools
Evinced
https://www.evinced.com
WebAIM Million - The 2025 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages
https://webaim.org/projects/million/
ArcTouch - The State of Mobile App Accessibility Report
https://arctouch.com/state-of-mobile-app-accessibility
OpenRouter
https://openrouter.ai
Moonshot AI
https://www.moonshot.ai
Github - AI Model Accessibility Checker
https://github.com/GAAD-Foundation/AIMAC
MiniMax-M1 - The world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model.
https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M1
The Pareto Frontier For AI Agents
https://cobusgreyling.substack.com/p/the-pareto-frontier-for-ai-agents
Em Dash, En Dash and Hyphen: The Guide I Needed
https://hrot.substack.com/p/em-dash-en-dash-and-hyphen-the-guide
Eamon McErlean on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emcerlean/
Joe Devon on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joedevon/
Jennison Asuncion on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennison/
1 hr 16 min
December 22, 2025 Eugene Woo - CEO of Venngage
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/

54 min
November 12, 2025 Molly Lazarus - Director of Remarkable / Arman Nobari & Anthony Gibson - Co-Founders of Good Trouble
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/
56 min
July 28, 2025 Victor Tsaran - Google Design Platform Accessibility Lead
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
49 min

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