Digital Accessibility

Karli Yeoman, Expedia, Senior Accessibility Engineer Karli Yeoman talks about her foundation background as a web developer. She describes the approach at Expedia for helping teams and individuals to bring accessibility into their project work. 

Ted Drake, Intuit, Global Accessibility Leader Ted talks about his early work in web development and how that led to building a program of Accessibility for engineers at Yahoo Finance. That led to his current position at Intuit where he brings accessibility into the customer experience across all their products and services. 

Pat Kogos, U. of Chicago, Director, Digital Accessibility Pat talks about her first work with accessibility as a college student and how she rediscovered it in her work as a writer. She describes how accessibility is supported in her current position as Director of Digital Accessibility at the University of Chicago. 

Ashley Firth, Octopus Energy, Author of Practical Web Inclusion & Accessibility Ashley talks about his early experience as a web developer - trying to find the resources to build accessible products. He describes his efforts to recruit team members for the effort and how those experiences contributed to the writing of his book. 

Blake Geyen, People First of Washington, Accessibility Advocate Blake talks about his personal challenges from cerebral palsy and how that informs his consulting and advocacy work. 

Sheri Byrne-Haber,  Vmware, All around evangelist Sheri and her daughter have disabilities and that provided a launching point for advocacy for accessibility. She brought that interest into her work as a software tester and now building out the comprehensive internal and external accessibility programs at VMWARE. 

Lori Samuels, NBCUniversal, Accessibility Director Lori talks about her early exposure to the discrimination her disabled sister experienced in school. She describes her professional introduction to accessibility working with consumer multimedia software and then helping to build the accessibility program at Intuit. 

J on Gunderson, U. of Illinois Coordinator of Accessible IT Group Jon relates an interesting history about the pioneering support for accessibility at the U. of Illinois. He talks about building out technologies for students and faculty at the university and also his work with the W3C ARIA working group. 

Kisiah Timmons, Yahoo, Principal Technical Program Manager Kisiah talks about going blind right after finishing college and the significant challenges of gaining employment at that time. She describes her work to improve support for assistive technologies in a variety mobile devices, tablets, and the associated apps.  

Matthew Luken, U.S. Bank, Vice President - Digital Accessibility Matthew talks about his work teaching and building the accessibility team at US Bank. He describes his career in aviation which brought him into system engineering and then into web design and user experience. 

Reginé Gilbert, NYU Assistant Professor Reginé talks about growing up with a family member who is deaf and taking that awareness into her UX studies and the digital accessibility community. She describes her research evaluating the accessibility associated with immersive technologies. 

Bryce Johnson, Microsoft, Co-inventor of the Xbox Adaptive Controller Bryce Johnson talks about his early work building web pages and how that lead to accessibility consulting and his current work with console gaming. 

Whitney Quesenbery talks about her career encompassing user research and the design of vote-casting. She describes the influences for the role-based format of her book A Web for Everyone. Center for Civic Design A Web for Everyone

Series Host Joe Welinske previews the guests appearing in the next several episodes.

Host Joe Welinske introduces himself and the show - Interviews with accomplished accessibility professionals to learn about their career journeys.