Accessibility, advocacy, and the intersection of inclusivity with arts and culture—we explore these topics and more with Tamman’s new Senior Director of Education, Katie Samson. Drawing on her lived and professional experiences, Katie shares insights on projects like Carolyn Lazard’s Long Take and emphasizes the importance of embedding access into creative practices. Ultimately, uncovering how collective access can drive meaningful change in the arts and beyond.

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Can we have true Democracy if voting isn’t accessible to everyone? Joined by Whitney Quesenberry, Rylin Rodgers, and Alexia Kemerling, professionals working on voting accessibility we discuss current barriers, what is being done to improve accessibility, and how voters, both with and without disabilities, can take action during the upcoming election.

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Meet Our Guests:

• Whitney Quesenberry is the director of the Center for Civic Design and worked on many accessible voting projects including the VVSG, the federal voting system standards

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• Accessible Voting: A guide to a private and independent voting experience:

AI has the potential to bring people who are blind or who have low vision closer and closer to the visual world.

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• Be My Eyes: An app using live video to connect blind and low-vision users who want sighted assistance

Accommodations are a responsibility that an employee and employer share.

Continuing the conversation with our 6 guests from Part 1, we further explore the impact of accommodations and inclusive practices for both employees and organizations and the true cost of providing (or not providing) accommodations.

This episode is part 2 of a 2-part podcast, listen to the first episode here.

Continue learning about supporting people with disabilities in Tamman's Learn Center. Stay in touch with us on LinkedIn.

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Meet our guests:

• Charlotte McGhee works in client services and lives with two invisible disabilities, ulcerative colitis and POTS

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• Haben Girma: The first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben Girma is a human rights lawyer advancing disability justice. 

Workplace accommodations are a topic that drives fear and uncertainty for both employees and employers.

Featuring personal anecdotes and professional insights, this documentary-style episode shares 6 unique perspectives that uncover the challenges of navigating the job market and the workplace for people with disabilities, the emotions around asking for accommodations, and the experience of hiring and supporting people with disabilities.

This episode is part 1 of a 2-part podcast keep listening here.

Continue learning about supporting people with disabilities in Tamman's Learn Center. Stay in touch with us on LinkedIn.

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Meet our guests:

• Charlotte McGhee works in client services and lives with two invisible disabilities, ulcerative colitis and POTS

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Resources:

• Haben Girma: The first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben Girma is a human rights lawyer advancing disability justice. 

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Join members of Tamman's marketing team as we explore how we manage digital accessibility as marketers, designers, content creators, and communicators. We focus on the machinations and the nuance that goes into crafting our external image as a company as an organization that deeply, deeply cares about digital accessibility.

This episode is part of a three-part series focused on marketing and design with accessibility in mind. Check out the other episodes:

• Using Emojis with Accessibility in Mind

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• Hemingway Writing Software

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Joined by Tamman designers, Tom Hall and Sam Waterman, we explore the intersection of art and accessibility! Diving deep into Tamman’s approach and how our team meets accessibility guidelines in both, professional designs and their personal projects.

This episode is part of a 3 part series focused on marketing and design with accessibility in mind. Check out the other episodes:

• Emojis and Accessibility

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Joined by Dr. Damien LaRock we explore the nuances and accessibility of modern communication, specifically emojis and gifs. Diving into the intended use of these icons and images, the different uses of the same icon, and how a screen reader notices them.

This episode is part of a three-part series focused on marketing and design with accessibility in mind. Check out the other episodes:

• Marketing with an Accessibility Mindset

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The Unbearable Ambiguity of Emojis Article

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Tamman's Article 19 podcast speaks with author of “There Plant Eyes”, Dr. M Leona Godin.

Host Kristen Witucki, chats with Leona about the personal and cultural history of blindness and they discuss her book "There Plant Eyes". This book delves into scientific, historical, religious, and cultural phenomena that have led to the ocularcentrism of our world. “There Plant Eyes" was the subject of one of our internal book talks which we also shared here on the podcast and led to our episode on Echolocation.

Dr. M. Leona Godin is a writer, performer, speaker, and editor with a PhD from NYU in Early Modern Literature. Her nonfiction debut is There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness (Pantheon Books, 2021), which The New Yorker called a “thought-provoking mixture of criticism, memoir, and advocacy.” In addition to her extensive and impressive creative pursuits, she has spent many years teaching literature and humanities courses at NYU, and she has given lectures on art, accessibility, technology, and disability!

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The Tamman team talks about the book, “There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness,” by Dr. M Leona Godin. This book delves into scientific, historical, religious, and cultural phenomena, that have led to the ocularcentrism of our world, a term that Leona Godin coined to mean a visual perception and way of thinking whose impact people who are blind or low vision still feel today.

Host Kristen Witucki and other members of the Tamman team chat about the many different topics discussed in this book including echolocation, which led to us further exploring echocolation in this episode of Article 19!