Digital Accessibility

Blake Geyen, People First of Washington, Accessibility AdvocateBlake talks about his personal challenges from cerebral palsy and how that informs his consulting and advocacy work. Mentioned in this episode:Info about Accessibility at Blink

Sheri Byrne-Haber,  Vmware, All around evangelistSheri 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. Mentioned in this episode:Info about Accessibility at Blink

Lori Samuels, NBCUniversal, Accessibility DirectorLori 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. Mentioned in this episode:Info about Accessibility at Blink

Jon Gunderson, U. of Illinois Coordinator of Accessible IT GroupJon 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. Mentioned in this episode:Info about Accessibility at Blink

Kisiah Timmons, Yahoo, Principal Technical Program ManagerKisiah 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.  Mentioned in this episode:Info about Accessibility at Blink

Matthew Luken, U.S. Bank, Vice President - Digital AccessibilityMatthew 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. Mentioned in this episode:Info about Accessibility at Blink

Reginé Gilbert, NYU Assistant ProfessorReginé 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. Mentioned in this episode:Info about Accessibility at Blink

Bryce Johnson, Microsoft, Co-inventor of the Xbox Adaptive ControllerBryce Johnson talks about his early work building web pages and how that lead to accessibility consulting and his current work with console gaming. Mentioned in this episode:Info about Accessibility at Blink

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 DesignA Web for EveryoneMentioned in this episode:Info about Accessibility at Blink

Series Host Joe Welinske previews the guests appearing in the next several episodes.Mentioned in this episode:Info about Accessibility at Blink