AXSChat Podcast

"I’m Bianca Prins, Global Head of Accessibility at ING Bank. I’m working on disability inclusion and an accessible ING for all. Ever since 2010 I’ve been working as an activist for disability rights in The Netherlands. My role was political advice impacting new disability legislation. In 2015 the UN CRPD was signed by The Netherlands, that year I started my journey at ING. I started with the...

  Aya Abdullah Jibreal – Inclusion and Accessibility Consultant An Inclusive Design and Accessibility Consultant/Trainer with 7 years of experience in inclusion and accessibility. Worked with many entities around Saudi Arabia, exploring successful accessibility adoption for different business environments. Saudi Arabia representative at G3ict/Smart Cities for All global initiatives. First CPACC ce...

  Tony Ellis: I am a semi-retired award winning professional Inventor and have licensed 65 products/inventions Worldwide some selling in multi-millions across the Globe like Cube World that I licensed to Mattel.    Tony Ellis   My work is currently in 2 care sectors, Assistive Technology and Assistive Care Robotics (“Tech for Good innovation”) devices for the elderly/disabled – I want to make a bi...

Matt May is Adobe’s head of inclusive design. His work includes integrating more equitable design practices across every aspect of the Adobe user experience, training and mentoring the Adobe Design team, and advocating principles of accessibility and inclusive design to the public at large. He lives in Seattle. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Follow axschat on social media. Bluesky: Antonio http...

  Mei leads the Access and Inclusive Environments team in Arup, specializing in accessibility and inclusion within the built environment. Mei assesses the compatibility of the design in relation to relevant design guidance, regulations and best practice. This includes looking at trends and changing demographics, to consider the impact of current design on future populations, accommodating good des...

 Megan Lawrence is the Sr. Accessibility Technical Evangelist at Microsoft with 15 years of experience working with the disability community. Dr. Lawrence builds trusted relationships with customers, NGOs, and Assistive Technology partners to further Microsoft’s mission of empowering every person and organization to achieve more through the lens of inclusion. Megan works deeply with customers and...

Rene Perkins is a serial entrepreneur dedicated to using technology for the good of society and the environment. She holds an M.Sc. in Finance and investment, and she is a qualified chartered accountant with E&Y and has 8 years’ investment banking experience with HSBC. Since 2013, she established two start-ups around sustainable transportation solutions in smart cities. She is now focusing on...

  Darryl is an Assistive Technology Innovation Program Manager in the Accessibility Office at Intel.​ He works at the intersection of technology and human experience helping discover new ways for people with disabilities to work, interact, and thrive.​ Darryl’s mission is to connect his passion for AT innovation with Intel’s product development pipeline to make accessible computing experiences ava...

Candi Castleberry Singleton is the Vice President of Diversity Partnership Strategy & Engagement at Twitter. She is also the founder of the award-winning Dignity & Respect Campaign, which has helped organizations create more inclusive work environments. As an experienced diversity and inclusion leader, she created The Bolt-On to Built-In Model™ featured in her chapter of Crossing the Divid...

 Antonio Santos is a Social Media Business Evangelist and Senior Data Intelligence Expert, at Atos, focusing on Digital Inclusion, Social Media Engagement, and Social Business. He is a Sociologist with expertise on Applied Research; he previously worked in the Media, Military, Public Sector and Telecom before joining Siemens IT in 2006 in Cork and Atos in 2011. According to Onalytica who measures...

 Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken.  Andy Black has over 30 years’ experience in tech for learning and inclusion. Renowned in the Noughties for his forty gadgets in forty minutes live demonstration and being digitally resident in most things he should be and some he thinks he now possibly should not have been. He floated the idea of the mobile device (phone) as Lord of the ring...

  Robert Scoble works with companies that are implementing Spatial Computing technologies, though he is taking time off after finishing “The Infinite Retina” to spend time with his young kids. He is a futurist and technology strategist and the author of three books about technology trends, being the first to report on technologies from autonomous vehicles to Siri. Previous positions include being...

Tim Sutton is a 31 year veteran Law Enforcement Officer.  After spending 4 years as a patrolman for the Chesterfield County Police Department VA, he was hired by a Sheriff’s Office in the Richmond Metro area of Virginia.  Tim then worked as a patrol deputy for two years and then spent four years as a Street Crimes Investigator.  He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant in 1999 and has been a patrol...

 Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken.  Darren works at Lilly UK (Pharmaceuticals) as a Global Program Manager and Accessibility Lead He leads a program called Access Lilly, focused on improving accessibility across the globe, in both physical and digital environments He also leads the Enable Employee Resource Group for the International region, which covers almost every country o...

Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken.  In 2005 Gareth founded the BBC’s Digital Accessibility Team. Over the course of the first 3 years, the Accessibility Team worked as an integral part of iPlayer’s core Product Team ensuring BBC iPlayer V1.0 launched as an accessible product. The team was joined the UX when the UX Design was founded in 2008. Gareth Ford Williams David helps dri...

  Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken.  Susan Mazrui began work in Communications in 1994 at Pacific Bell in Disability Marketing. In 1998, she moved to the wireless field, where she developed corporate strategies for state and federal legal and regulatory compliance. Under her leadership, Cingular Wireless became the first national carrier to offer “talking” cellphones and estab...

Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken. Sophie is an award-winning disability advocate & social entrepreneur who was paralysed in a car crash when she was 18 years old. Determined to channel her adversity into opportunity, she sees her challenges as a unique chance for creativity. She embodies her values; finding creative opportunity in diversity and adversity, and daring to be...

Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken. 6 years ago, at age 35, Wendy became the Queen of Social Distancing when she became a disabled chronic Lyme disease fighter. Feeling exhaustion, pain and like daily flu with autoimmunity issues that makes Wendy catch what sicknesses others have when in groups — meant she couldn’t travel on a plane, go to work meetings or even go with her boys...

Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken. Lorena Julio is a human rights advocate with a Master in Compared Public Policies and a degree in Social Communication. She worked for more than 14 years in the promotion and protection of human rights in Latin America and the United States. She participated in multiple high-level events as a speaker on human rights, youth and disabilities in...

Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken. Disabled/Wild/Hot AF Exploratory Storyteller and Adventurer. Creating relationships, stories, and magic. A Continual WIP. Sulaiman is an independent consultant, speaker, and writer on Divergent Leadership, Creativity, and Equitability (characterised by equity or fairness; just and right; fair; reasonable: equitable treatment of all citizens)....

Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken. This Week’s chat is about authoring tools. When we produce content for the web we use authoring tools to publish. How these tools can help produce accessible content can have a profound impact on the overall inclusiveness of the internet. Mike Gifford is the founder of OpenConcept Consulting Inc, which he started in 1999. Since then, he has be...

Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken. Thea Kurdi has nineteen years of experience consulting and teaching accessible architecture with a specialization in universal design. In her role as an accessibility consultant at one of Canada’s oldest and leading specialty firms, Thea has assisted design teams to realize the benefits of universal design and achieve higher levels of accessib...

Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken. Vernon Sankey is a Leadership Coach and Author. He has been in business for many years during which time he has been the CEO, Chairman and Board member of major international corporations including Reckitt & Colman plc (now Reckitt Benckiser), Pearson plc, Zurich AG, Taylor Woodrow (now Taylor Wimpey), Cofra AG, Firmenich SA, Gala Group pl...

Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken. David is a Costa Rican Political Scientist with his MBA and masters in diplomacy.  He is also a leader, advocate, social media specialist, and communication strategist.  David has experience in public policy implementation, development, and evaluation as well as consultancy services for NGOs like UNESCO and others linked to the European Union....

Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken. E.A. Draffan trained as a Speech and Language Therapist working with those who have complex communication needs and disabilities, before specialising in the use of assistive technologies and issues of digital accessibility. Recent research at the University of Southampton includes ‘AI and Inclusion’ as part of the Alan Turing Institute’s work....