Accessibility and Gen AI Podcast

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 01:26 Introduction 02:39 Eric's Career Path To Launching Repo Prompt 08:01 Making The Decision To Launch Repo Prompt 10:32 What Is A Context Window And Why Does it Matter? 13:38 What Is Repo Prompt Used For? 18:08 How Do You Solicit Feedback From The Users? 21:02 OpenClaw vs Hermes 24:36 Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering 26:54 Repo Prompt Demonstration and Wor...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:46 Introduction 01:48 Fred's Journey To Being Chief Accessibility Officer at Verizon 03:07 About CES & Commitment to Accessibility 05:56 Developing The Accessibility Stage at CES 15:48 Idea Behind The Accessibility Stage at CES 21:56 How Verizon Embraced Accessibility 27:29 Steve's Path To His Role At CTA Foundation 34:23 How To Integrate Accessibility At A Corpora...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:46 Introduction 01:34 What's The Relationship Between Wikimedia and Wikipedia? 02:02 Denny's Professional Background & Current Role 05:32 What is The Semantic Web? 07:58 Original Proposal For The Web vs The Semantic Web 14:12 When Denny Locked Sir Tim Berners-Lee, The Inventor of The Web, In His Car 15:09 What Is A Knowledge Graph? 19:57 About The New Project, Abst...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:50 Introduction 02:23 The Importance and Goals of AIMAC 06:03 Service Now's Priority for Accessibility 12:09 Challenges of Developing AIMAC 17:25 What is AIMAC and how does it function? 21:41 Part of What Inspired AIMAC 24:50 Using OpenRouter - The Unified Interface for LLMs 29:08 AIMAC's Leaderboard of AI Models and How They Ranked 37:03 Examples of System & User...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:53 Introduction 01:24 Eugene's Background That Led To His Current Role 03:18 What Inspired The Idea for Venngage 06:23 Lessons Learned Being An Entrepreneur of Start-Ups 10:40 How Do You Maintain The Start-Up Culture As A Company Expands 15:04 Venngage's Decision To Focus On Accessibility 19:39 How Venngage Incorporated Accessibility Into Their Product 21:52 Favori...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 01:29 Introduction 02:08 How Accessibility Became Part of Molly's Career Path 09:33 Lessons Learned From Working In Start-Ups 13:03 Some of the Companies in Remarkable's Accelerator Cohort 17:21 How Companies Are Chosen by Remarkable 19:27 Remarkable's Funding As A Non-Profit Organization 21:34 How Does Molly Use AI In Her Daily Life 25:20 How Will AI Play A Role In A...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:43 Introduction 01:27 How Using A Screen Reader Is Like Looking Through A Straw 03:38 What Are Earcons? 04:31 Growing Up Blind In Ukraine & Moving To The US 08:53 Victor On Being A Musician 10:11 Why Did You Start Working With Computers? 11:57 Launching A Computer Center For The Blind 14:11 Victor's Advice On Public Speaking 16:12 Communicating The Importance of Ac...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:44 Introduction 01:24 What's More Challenging... Coaching Your Employees or Your Son's Little League Team? 03:05 How Was 3Play Media Founded? 09:35 How Pedals Are Used For Captioning/Transcription 10:37 Tracking Metrics of Time, Quality, and Accuracy 13:46 What's The Difference Between Captions vs Subtitles? 18:48 Impact of Accessibility and AI 25:03 Importance of...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:57 Introduction 02:07 Matt's Journey into Accessibility 03:45 About Vispero 06:01 Importance of Working With People With Disabilities 08:06 About The Lighthouse For The Blind 11:44 Induction Into The Kiosk Hall of Fame 17:15 Impact of Gen AI on Accessibility 26:08 Visit to CES Tech Week at Capitol Hill 27:17 About JAWS Picture Smart AI 30:35 Balancing Priorities In...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 01:04 Introduction 04:46 Dylan's Journey into Accessibility 09:38 About Deque Systems / Automating Accessibility 12:04 Axe-con Keynote and Controversy Around Automation 24:22 Understanding the Criticism 25:48 How AI May Affect Developers & Other Positions 32:17 Maintaining A Culture As A Company Grows 41:36 Experience of Writing A Book 49:35 Future of Deque and Gen AI...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:36 Introduction 01:35 Working with Victor Tsaran on Accessibility 05:38 Getting Involved with Accessibility 10:47 Soliciting and Maintaining Leadership's Support For Accessibility 13:39 DeafBlind Potter 15:17 European Accessibility Act 18:44 Scaling Accessibility at Intuit 23:00 Incorporating AI at Intuit? 29:39 Personal AI 33:57 Open Source vs Closed Source 36:36...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:36 Introduction 01:35 Working On Django 04:35 Future of Generative AI & Accessibility 07:23 Latest Tools & Models (Google Gemini Flash 2.0, Open AI, Video Streaming APIs, Amazon Nova) 11:39 Frontrunners of AI? 14:48 Daily Tools 19:14 LLM Command Line Tool 22:10 Using LLM For Alt Text For Images 24:58 Making LLM More Accessible 32:36 Will AI Replace Jobs? 39:50 The...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:31 Introduction 01:18 GitHub Copilot & Developers Announcement 02:16 Getting Involved With Accessibility 04:47 Priorities & Challenges in Accessibility 08:30 Developers + Accessibility 14:54 GitHub Copilot 17:35 Benefits of Using Gen AI 22:36 Haptics vs Other Tech 25:39 Using Sonification To Help Read Charts 29:26 Customer Feedback 33:12 How Conversational AI Will...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:44 Introduction 01:12 Launching Echo Labs 04:40 Personal Connection To Accessibility 07:05 BuellerBot 10:57 About Echo Labs 14:37 Keeping Up With AI 16:43 Accessibility and Generative AI 20:26 Autonomous Agents 24:44 Artificial General Intelligence 29:48 Will Accessibility Job Be Affected By AI? 33:12 Working With People With Disabilities 37:59 Accessibility Custom...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:25 Introduction 00:55 Early Days; First Computer 05:45 Music For People Who Are Deaf 08:51 Assistive Tech For Music 10:44 Deaf Community 14:35 Sign Language 16:31 Chief Accessibility Officer at Microsoft 23:30 Best Practice: Scale 25:33 Seeing AI 29:20 Working with People with Disabilities 34:08 Captioning Profanity 37:08 Accessibility and Gen AI 42:22 Accessibilit...

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:21 Introduction 01:03 What is GAAD / Global Accessibility Awareness Day? 03:12 How Did Jennison & Joe Meet? 11:30 GAAD Foundation 16:50 Accessibility at LinkedIn 22:22 How To Educate People About The Importance of Accessibility 28:33 Which AI Products Do You Use? 35:07 Accessibility and Generative AI EPISODE LINKS: Joe Devon's Article: "CHALLENGE: Accessibility kno...

00:00 Opening Teaser 00:38 Introduction 00:58 What Is Be My Eyes? 06:56 Be My Eyes + OpenAI (Be My AI) 12:17 Accessibility Testing & Feedback 17:55 What's In The Future? 25:14 How To Get Involved With Be My Eyes 30:20 Strategy For Growth 35:52 What's Your KPI (Key Performance Indicator)? 40:21 Synthesia & Its Impact On Entertainment 43:01 Future Plans For The Data? Follow Be My Eyes https://x.com/...