The Difference Between Sweden and Ireland

Laura Kalbag calls on businesses using people’s data for profit to examine the ethics of that model, and talks practical inclusive design and digital accessibility.

Highlights include:

⭐ How are accessibility and inclusive design different?
⭐ What does the inaccessible state of the web say about technologists?
⭐ What’s wrong with companies profiting from our behavioural data?
⭐ Why have you gone to great lengths to live up to your values?
⭐ What can we do to help our organisations to make more ethical decisions?

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Who is Laura Kalbag?

Laura is a designer and developer, as well as the Co-Founder of the Small Technology Foundation, a two-person and one-husky, not-for-profit, that strives for a more ethical, more private, and more just technology industry.

From 2016 until December 2021, the Small Technology Foundation made and supported Better, a digital privacy tool for Safari - across Apple’s operating systems.

Laura is also a passionate proponent for creating a web that is inclusive and accessible. In 2017 she published her first book, “Accessibility for Everyone”, through A Book Apart.

The book is a guide to the accessibility landscape. Helping people to understand disability and impairment challenges; get a handle on important laws and guidelines; and to learn how to plan for, evaluate, and test accessible design.

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Find Laura here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurakalbag/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LauraKalbag
Website: https://laurakalbag.com/

Small Technology Foundation:

Website: https://small-tech.org/
Email: hello@small-tech.org

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