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This week we welcomed Michael Paciello to Intentional Conversations!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS MICHAEL:

1. When building a website, build a mindset of "think accessibility", then it becomes easier, it will be built into your digital environment.
2. Most companies come to them because there is a level of urgency, a lawsuit, the real thing comes back to how do we get the C-suite folx to indoctrinate a culture of inclusivity? 5 - 10 years, is using the accessibility maturity model. If you start with this, you’re saying Who are we? What do we have in place where disabilities and inclusion are concerned? And where do we need to improve?
3. Be sure your leaders buy into this! This is where the crux of the problem comes in.
4. Making it accessible in theory sounds easy, but that’s not true.
5. Marketing has been built based on the “trust marketing ethic”, be truthful about what your products can and cannot do, and who they serve.
6. There is a difference between making something accessible and making it usable.
7. #1 challenge is bias in AI - it is all about math.
8. How can we scale accessibility? Get better and better every day!!

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