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AXSChat with Carrie Chow 14th Jan 2025

 

A middle aged asian lady with shoulder length dark straight hair and glasses smiles towards the camera. She is wearing a red top and dark jacket.Leading change in the innovation space, Carrie is an Accessibility Evangelist at Atos, where she connects people with opportunities to enhance digital accessibility.

She has served on the Editorial Board of the Atos Scientific Community and as a Senior Expert in the Atos Expert Community, both of which have now merged into the Atos Research Community (ARC).

Her extensive experience includes roles in strategy and leadership as a solution architect, data expert, business development manager, head of marketing & communication, and member of the steering committee for corporate portfolio. Additionally, she was a leader in the corporate culture refresh program, and chaired the Global Adapt Network, an Employee Resource Group (ERG) for disability inclusion. Before joining Atos, she supported Qualcomm’s OmniTRACs vehicle tracking and messaging system via satellite and assisted a national utility company in digitizing their document management process.

Keen in sports but not sporty enough to go professional, Carrie had a stint as IT Helpdesk Manager for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games and completed the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Marathon Pour Tous (marathon for the public). She also served as a race official at CYBATHLON, a non-profit project of ETH Zurich that hosts international competitions and events to foster innovation in assistive technologies for everyday use by and for people with disabilities.

Carrie is certified in facilitating and designing workshops with the LEGO Serious Play method, and as a Wiki Scientist, to help enrich content on Wikipedia related to disability and accessibility.

Questions:

Q1 How can organizations best support employees transitioning into new roles in digital accessibility? #A11y #Inclusion #AXSChat

Q2 In our interview with @CarrieChow@Bsky.social we talked out the Atos Scientific community and the work they did trying to predict future tech trends – how can in-company think tanks like this help advance #accessibility? #A11y #Tech #AXSChat

Q3 How can volunteering experiences in disability inclusion influence professional work in digital accessibility? #Volunteering #Accessibility #AXSChat

Q4 What innovative assistive technologies have you seen making the biggest impact in recent years? #AssistiveTech #Innovation #AXSChat

Q5 What do businesses need to do to ensure that their marketing strategies are inclusive & accessible AND What does the #A11y profession need to do to be more than window dressing for marketeers  #Marketing #Inclusion #AXSChat

Q6  Do recent developments in technology offer potential to address some of the long unmet cognitive accessibility needs for the Neurodivergent workforce? #Neurodiversity #A11y #AXSChat

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