In this audio extract from our monthly Accessibility Insights webinar series, we welcome Malin Rygg, Head Of Department at the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency as the latest guest.

Robin Christopherson MBE Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet hosts a monthly online chat with individuals who are each working to improve digital accessibility and digital inclusion.

On this webinar, Malin spoke about enforcing inclusive design principles, and the challenges and successes she has experienced with this in Norway. 

You can download a transcript of this session from the AbilityNet website and about view the video recording of the webinar on the AbilityNet website, where you can also find additional Q&As and shownotes.

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This is an audio recording of our Accessibility Insights webinar series, this month featuring Christopher Patnoe, Head of Accessibility Programs and Disability Inclusion at Google chatting with AbilityNet's Robin Christopherson MBE, Head of Digital Inclusion. The session is introduced by Annie Mannion, Digital Communications Manager at AbilityNet.

On the webinar, Christopher, whose background includes innovation roles at Disney Mobile, Sony Ericsson and Apple, shared inclusivity developments at Google and discussed topics including:

• Covid-19

And more!

You can access the webinar recording on the AbilityNet website, along with slides and Q&As from the session.

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This is an audio recording of our new Accessibility Insights webinar series, this month featuring Bryn Anderson, Digital Accessibility Specialist at Sainsbury's chatting with AbilityNet's Robin Christopherson MBE, Head of Digital Inclusion. The session is introduced by Annie Mannion, Digital Communications Manager at AbilityNet.

Bryn supports all of Sainsbury’s' brands to build accessible web and mobile applications. He played a key role in Sainsbury’s' COVID-19 Feeding the Nation work, which shone a spotlight on disability and accessibility both at Sainsbury’s and across society as a whole.

Born with albinism, Bryn is registered visually impaired, and has a keen interest on the mental impact of inclusive versus non-inclusive experiences in regard to social participation and brand perception.

You can access the webinar recording on the AbilityNet website, along with slides and Q&As from the session.

Download a text transcript of this session via the AbilityNet website.

This is an audio recording of our new Accessibility Insights webinar series, this month featuring Paul Smyth MBE, Head of Digital Accessibility at Barclays chatting with AbilityNet's Robin Christopherson MBE, Head of Digital Inclusion.

As founder and leader of Digital Accessibility at Barclays, Paul's an international expert and thought leader who helps to address technological barriers faced by disabled customers or staff. Over recent years Paul’s led on a number of firsts for accessible banking, including talking ATMs, high visibility debit cards and regularly performing disabled user testing across the Barclays website and mobile app. He’s also helped overhaul their Workplace Adjustments process to support staff with disabilities to be as productive as possible.
 
Topics covered in the chat include:

• How COVID-19 has impacted Barclays customers and staff

You can access the webinar recording on the AbilityNet website, along with Q&As from the session.

Download a text transcript of this session via the AbilityNet website.

This podcast is an audio recording of an AbilityNet webinar, which was broadcast live on Tuesday 11 August 2020.

Neil Milliken, Global Head of Accessibility for Atos, is grilled by AbilityNet's Head of Digital Inclusion, Robin Christopherson, as the second guest in our new Accessibility Insights webinar series. In the series, Robin enjoys monthly online chats with individuals who are each working to improve digital accessibility and digital inclusion.

Neil's role is to deliver better technology for customers and employees, embedding inclusive practice into the processes of the organisation, which has thousands of employees and an annual turnover of billions.

Neil is co-founder of #AXSChat, Europe’s largest twitter chat with a focus on Accessibility & Inclusion.

In this session, Neil and Robin discuss dyslexia, ADHD, visual impairments, WCAG, Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG), Wix and more...

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We're delighted to welcome Microsoft's Chief Accessibility Officer, Jenny Lay-Flurrie as the first guest in our new Accessibility Insights series.

You can download the transcript of this session and view the video recording of the session on the AbilityNet website.

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Today we're talking with Dr Chris Hughes, Computer Science Lecturer at the University of Salford and a panelist on the Inclusive Immersive Experiences session at TechShare Pro, about the University's cool web player that's now available for everyone to try out.

Here's the link to its ImAc pilot web player. Have a go and give your feedback.

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Today we catch up on the latest developments in cutting-edge, real-time speech recognition from Dimitri Kanevsky, research senior scientist at Google.

Speaker:

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An Accessibility Champions Network is a great way to build your internal capability and change the culture of your organisation to make inclusive design business as usual. So what is a champions network? How do you start building one? What are the options and how long does it take to build?

Speakers -

• Christopher Patnoe, Senior Programs Manager, Google Accessibility

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Today we have a special interview with Heather Burns; tech, policy and regulations specialist on how Brexit has called time on the European Accessibility Act ever becoming UK law and what this means for disabled UK citizens and UK PLC.

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