In this episode of our Founding Partner Series, Morey Creative’s Jeffrey Howard talks accessibility, inclusion, community, and much more with Catherine Nichols, Vice President of the Office of Accessibility at Salesforce. 

Access the transcript here. 

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We’d like to thank our sponsors, all of whom are doing incredible work on the web accessibility front. All of our sponsors are also InclusionHub Founding Partners: Salesforce, a leading customer relationship management software provider; Morey Creative Studios (MCS), a HubSpot Diamond Partner Agency; Fable, a leading accessibility testing platform; and Be My Eyes, a free app connecting blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers. 

Head over to our Founding Partners page to learn more about each of our sponsors. 

InclusionHub Podcast is brought to you by InclusionHub’s Founding Partners, listed above. Audio Editor/Sound Designer/Producer: Manny Faces Media. MCS Editor-In-Chief/Producer: Christopher Twarowski. MCS Managing Editor/Producer: Rashed Mian.

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In this inaugural episode of our Founding Partner Series, Morey Creative’s Jeffrey Howard discusses accessibility, allyship, and much more, with Fable’s Alwar Pillai and Abid Virani.

Access the transcript here. 

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We’d like to thank our sponsors, all of whom are doing incredible work on the web accessibility front. All of our sponsors are also InclusionHub Founding Partners: Salesforce, a leading customer relationship management software provider; Morey Creative Studios (MCS), a HubSpot Diamond Partner Agency; Fable, a leading accessibility testing platform; and Be My Eyes, a free app connecting blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers. 

Head over to our Founding Partners page to learn more about each of our sponsors. 

InclusionHub Podcast is brought to you by InclusionHub’s Founding Partners, listed above. Audio Editor/Sound Designer/Producer: Manny Faces Media. MCS Editor-In-Chief/Producer: Christopher Twarowski. MCS Managing Editor/Producer: Rashed Mian.

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In this episode, Sam reflects on the series and his experience as host during an interview with Jeffrey Howard of Morey Creative Studios, who will be moderating upcoming segments highlighting InclusionHub’s Founding Partners. 

Access the transcript here.

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We’d like to thank our sponsors, all of whom are doing incredible work on the web accessibility front. All of our sponsors are also InclusionHub Founding Partners: Salesforce, a leading customer relationship management software provider; Morey Creative Studios (MCS), a HubSpot Diamond Partner Agency; Fable, a leading accessibility testing platform; and Be My Eyes, a free app connecting blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers. 

Head over to our Founding Partners page to learn more about each of our sponsors. 

InclusionHub Podcast is brought to you by InclusionHub’s Founding Partners, listed above. Audio Editor/Sound Designer/Producer: Manny Faces Media. MCS Editor-In-Chief/Producer: Christopher Twarowski. MCS Managing Editor/Producer: Rashed Mian.

Follow InclusionHub on social: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Throughout this series, we’ve strived to shine a light on critical aspects of the ongoing quest for greater accessibility and inclusion, for all. We’ve done so by featuring the insights and experiences of some truly incredible guests. From internationally recognized disability rights advocate Judith Heumann’s historical perspective of the movement’s hardscrabble beginnings launching demonstration after demonstration in the streets to civil rights attorney Arlene Mayerson’s relentless struggle to ensure equality across the web—we’ve confronted the many challenges head-on, and hopefully, have helped inspire listeners along the way.

In this episode, The InclusionHub Podcast’s host and Accessibility Evangelist at leading accessibility testing platform Fable, Sam Proulx, continues this important conversation by revisiting several core themes of the series, along with vital insights from past guests, to look ahead to what the future may hold for digital accessibility and inclusion, for all.

Access the transcript here.

More About Judith

JudithHeumann.com

The Heumann Perspective Podcast

Judith on YouTube

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

Judith on Facebook and Instagram

More About Arlene

Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

DREDF on LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube

More About Jennifer

JKClegacy.com

All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything

Jennifer on Instagram and LinkedIn.

More About Laura

Small Technology Foundation

‘Accessibility for Everyone’

Laura on LinkedIn

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We’d like to thank our sponsors, all of whom are doing incredible work on the web accessibility front. All of our sponsors are also InclusionHub Founding Partners: Salesforce, a leading customer relationship management software provider; Morey Creative Studios (MCS), a HubSpot Diamond Partner Agency; Fable, a leading accessibility testing platform; and Be My Eyes, a free app connecting blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers. 

Head over to our Founding Partners page to learn more about each of our sponsors. 

InclusionHub Podcast is brought to you by InclusionHub’s Founding Partners, listed above. Audio Editor/Sound Designer/Producer: Manny Faces Media. MCS Editor-In-Chief/Producer: Christopher Twarowski. MCS Managing Editor/Producer: Rashed Mian.

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In this episode of The InclusionHub Podcast, host Sam Proulx resets the table, so to speak, returning to several critical yet rarely articulated insights shared by guests of our inaugural drop, and re-evaluating where we are as a society in the collective quest toward true digital accessibility and inclusion, for all.

Among those: that the web is broken—impacted by what Sam describes as “flat-out greed.” All this has created a lucrative cottage industry that’s most recently enriching itself off an ongoing mass scramble by businesses to comply with critical laws passed to help rectify such disparities.

Listeners have heard from this episode’s incredible guests before—in our very first drop “Accessibility by Default.” Expanding their discussion about the history and current state of the web into the ADA, WCAG, and consequently flawed but necessary ways businesses and organizations can help improve digital accessibility and inclusivity, are Jutta Treviranus and Laura Kalbag.

Access the transcript here.

More About Jutta

Inclusive Design Research Centre at Toronto’s OCAD University

Jutta on LinkedIn

More About Laura

Small Technology Foundation

‘Accessibility for Everyone’

Laura on LinkedIn

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We’d like to thank our sponsors, all of whom are doing incredible work on the web accessibility front. All of our sponsors are also InclusionHub Founding Partners: Salesforce, a leading customer relationship management software provider; Morey Creative Studios (MCS), a HubSpot Diamond Partner Agency; Fable, a leading accessibility testing platform; and Be My Eyes, a free app connecting blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers. 

Head over to our Founding Partners page to learn more about each of our sponsors. 

InclusionHub Podcast is brought to you by InclusionHub’s Founding Partners, listed above. Audio Editor/Sound Designer/Producer: Manny Faces Media. MCS Editor-In-Chief/Producer: Christopher Twarowski. MCS Managing Editor/Producer: Rashed Mian.

Follow InclusionHub on social: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey everybody, this is Sam Proulx, humble host of The InclusionHub Podcast, and Accessibility Evangelist at leading accessibility testing platform Fable, powered by people with disabilities. 

I’m away right now in Toronto immersed in some incredibly cool conferences, events, and seminars to help me help further advance the mission of greater digital accessibility and inclusion, for all; but I wanted to quickly let you know that we'll be back with more extraordinary episodes of The InclusionHub Podcast in two weeks, upon my return home. We’ll hear from more guests then, and I’ll tell you all about my electrifying trip—I just didn’t want to leave you hanging! 

In the meantime, be sure to check out all the previous episodes of The InclusionHub Podcast wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts—Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, we’re on them all! Also head over to digital accessibility and inclusion community, directory, and resource nexus InclusionHub.com, and learn more about its Founding Partners, this show’s sponsors: leading customer relationship management software provider Salesforce; HubSpot Diamond Partner Agency Morey Creative Studios; Fable; and free, blind and low-vision app Be My Eyes, which I personally use and absolutely love.

I’ll be back soon, dear friends! Until then, remember: A more accessible and inclusive world is a better world!

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InclusionHub Podcast is brought to you by InclusionHub’s Founding Partners, listed above. Audio Editor/Sound Designer/Producer: Manny Faces Media. MCS Editor-In-Chief/Producer: Christopher Twarowski. MCS Managing Editor/Producer: Rashed Mian.

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On this episode, The InclusionHub Podcast’s host Sam Proulx returns yet again to where it all began for him, personally: his dad, Rej. He picks up the extraordinary conversation from last episode exactly where it left off: discussing his father’s three-decade career at IBM, his bouts with discrimination along the way, digital accessibility and inclusion, the future, and much, much more.

Access the transcript here.

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We’d like to thank our sponsors, all of whom are doing incredible work on the web accessibility front. All of our sponsors are also InclusionHub Founding Partners: Salesforce, a leading customer relationship management software provider; Morey Creative Studios (MCS), a HubSpot Diamond Partner Agency; Fable, a leading accessibility testing platform; and Be My Eyes, a free app connecting blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers. 

Head over to our Founding Partners page to learn more about each of our sponsors. 

InclusionHub Podcast is brought to you by InclusionHub’s Founding Partners, listed above. Audio Editor/Sound Designer/Producer: Manny Faces Media. MCS Editor-In-Chief/Producer: Christopher Twarowski. MCS Managing Editor/Producer: Rashed Mian.

Follow InclusionHub on social: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When you take into account the various obstacles the disability community has had to face, it's quite remarkable what they've been able to accomplish, including in the years preceding the Americans with Disabilities Act and similar expansions of rights in other parts of the world.

One person in particular navigated this disturbingly unequal and discriminatory terrain and emerged from it as an accomplished computer programmer, father, and husband. His name is Rej Proulx and he’s Sam’s father. Both men are blind.

Sam and Rej sat down together for a raw and intimate conversation about what that experience was like for Rej. It’s the type of conversation that every child and parent hopes to share one day as the former matures and the latter is able to come to grips with a life filled with challenges, sacrifices, regrets, and accomplishments. In their household, fighting for accessibility and inclusion is a family affair.

We’re honored to bring this special conversation to you now, in October, which is recognized as National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) in the United States, and DEAM globally. Given the length of their chat, we decided to break up this episode into two parts, so look out for Part II’s release later this month.

Access the transcript here.

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We’d like to thank our sponsors, all of whom are doing incredible work on the web accessibility front. All of our sponsors are also InclusionHub Founding Partners: Salesforce, a leading customer relationship management software provider; Morey Creative Studios (MCS), a HubSpot Diamond Partner Agency; Fable, a leading accessibility testing platform; and Be My Eyes, a free app connecting blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers. 

Head over to our Founding Partners page to learn more about each of our sponsors. 

InclusionHub Podcast is brought to you by InclusionHub’s Founding Partners, listed above. Audio Editor/Sound Designer/Producer: Manny Faces Media. MCS Editor-In-Chief/Producer: Christopher Twarowski. MCS Managing Editor/Producer: Rashed Mian.

Follow InclusionHub on social: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Throughout our series, our host Sam Proulx and our many extraordinary guests have stressed this critical requirement. From Judith Heumann sharing her experiences spearheading many of the key disability rights protests of the ‘60s and ‘70s to Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins recounting her pivotal participation in the Capitol Crawl to help force the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), “Nothing About Us Without Us” has remained at their core.

In this extraordinary episode of The InclusionHub Podcast, we delve even deeper into its meaning and ongoing application in the fight for a fully accessible web. We’re honored, once again, to have truly incredible guests sharing their personal and collective experiences with us, toward this end.

Access the transcript here.

More About Laura Kalbag

Small Technology Foundation

‘Accessibility for Everyone.’

Laura on Twitter and LinkedIn

More About Bradley Rikard

Bradley on LinkedIn

More About Will Butler

Will Butler on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

More About Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins

JKClegacy.com

All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything

Jennifer on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn

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We’d like to thank our sponsors, all of whom are doing incredible work on the web accessibility front. All of our sponsors are also InclusionHub Founding Partners: Salesforce, a leading customer relationship management software provider; Morey Creative Studios (MCS), a HubSpot Diamond Partner Agency; Fable, a leading accessibility testing platform; and Be My Eyes, a free app connecting blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers. 

Head over to our Founding Partners page to learn more about each of our sponsors. 

InclusionHub Podcast is brought to you by InclusionHub’s Founding Partners, listed above. Audio Editor/Sound Designer/Producer: Manny Faces Media. MCS Editor-In-Chief/Producer: Christopher Twarowski. MCS Managing Editor/Producer: Rashed Mian.

Follow InclusionHub on social: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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In Episode 4 of The InclusionHub Podcast, you’ll hear from more luminaries about the origins of the ADA and its impact, plus how the law relates to the online world. It’s indisputable that the ADA has been instrumental in improving the physical world for people with disabilities—meaning it has worked largely as intended—but how the ADA is adapted for digital spaces is a much more difficult question to answer.

To do that, we enlisted the help of two highly knowledgeable guests: Arlene Mayerson, a civil rights lawyer, founding director of the nonprofit Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and one of the architects of the ADA; and Timothy Elder, principal attorney at the TRE Legal Practice, which specializes in digital accessibility litigation.

Access the transcript here.

More About Arlene

Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

DREDF on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube

More About Timothy

TRE Legal

Timothy on LinkedIn, 

TRE Legal on Twitter, and LinkedIn

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We’d like to thank our sponsors, all of whom are doing incredible work on the web accessibility front. All of our sponsors are also InclusionHub Founding Partners: Salesforce, a leading customer relationship management software provider; Morey Creative Studios (MCS), a HubSpot Diamond Partner Agency; Fable, a leading accessibility testing platform; and Be My Eyes, a free app connecting blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers. 

Head over to our Founding Partners page to learn more about each of our sponsors. 

InclusionHub Podcast is brought to you by InclusionHub’s Founding Partners, listed above. Audio Editor/Sound Designer/Producer: Manny Faces Media. MCS Editor-In-Chief/Producer: Christopher Twarowski. MCS Managing Editor/Producer: Rashed Mian.

Follow InclusionHub on social: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.