Parallel

Christin Hemphill works with companies to build inclusive experiences for customers and employees. That's a fancy way of saying that your bank, your onboarding materials and your VR game should all be accessible to you.

Christine Hemphill

Rain Michaels wears many hats. She is a UX designer at Google, and she is also one of the maintainers for accessibility on the community-developed Drupal content management system, and a co-chair of W3C’s Cognitive Accessibility task force.

Rain Michaels

Virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality – extended reality, or XR – should include everyone, whether they have a disability or not. Reginé Gilbert is working to teach designers of the future how to make their XR experiences fully inclusive.

Reginé Gilbert

Indigenous people often face an array of barriers to economic opportunity. Poverty, oppression and simple lack of access to the Internet service are among them. We'll talk about expanding opportunity to indigenous communities in Canada.

Jace Meyer

Jace uses the term "Turtle Island" at several points during the conversation. Here is a definition for those who aren't familiar with the term.

Three Apple news junkies give the company's fall product announcement event a few days to settle. We weigh in on all the new hardware announcements and what we imagine could come next.

Thomas Donville and Ken Ray

Ten years ago, a pair of accessibility advocates created Global Accessibility Awareness Day, or #GAAD. The annual event now attracts Fortune 500 companies, including Apple, Google and Microsoft. Cofounder Joe Devon says, #GAAD is still about developers.

Joe Devon

Mobile and desktop accessibility are similar, but different, just as mobile browsers can show the same pages desktop ones can, but with different interfaces and quirks. On this episode, we're talking about how to use mobile tools to test the accessibility of Web sites in iOS. My guest is the author of the #a11ytools testing suite.

Paul Adam

Mobile and desktop accessibility are similar, but different, just as mobile browsers can show the same pages desktop ones can, but with different interfaces and quirks. On this episode, we're talking about how to use mobile tools to test the accessibility of Web sites in iOS. My guest is the author of the https://apps.apple.com/us/app/a11ytools-web-accessibility/id1356241530 testing suite.

We discuss how to achieve and sustain true DEI in tech and STEM fields for women, people of color and people with disabilities. Our guest is an educator, an engineer and an advocate for meaningful DEI in all kinds of tech workplaces.

Lesley Shannon

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory catalogs exploding stars, black holes and more, turning them into visualizations. How can someone who is blind share in the beauty and the science of the images Chandra data scientists create? You're about to find out.

Christine Malec, J. J. Hunt, and Kim Arcand

Tech-assisted navigation means more than using your phone or to find your way outside. Improving indoor navigation has long been a project for people with blindness and low vision, but its importance is growing for venues and tech companies, too.

Mike May