Quality Captions Available Tony Coelho is a former United States congressman from California, and primary author and sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 1986, Tony was elected House Majority Whip, where he oversaw a series of Democratic victories in the House on measures ranging from the budget to cutting off funds for […]
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Interview with Mike Peters & Stephen Frost Quality Captions Available Mike Peters serves as the Chief of Staff and Acting Director for the Membership Engagement Department of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Mike is a two-time Paralympian in Football 7-a-side, having served as USA team captain from the 1996 Atlanta Games to the 2004 Athens
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This Video Has Captions Neil currently works for Atos as Head of Accessibility & Inclusion where his role is to help make the world a better place by delivering better technology for our customers and staff, embedding inclusive practice into the Business As Usual Processes of organisations with thousands of employees and turnovers numbering in billions.
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Audio interview (it wasn’t possible to record in video due to network incidents) Alexandra Kutas works together with the Mayor of Dnipro, Borys Filatov, and a team of specialists as a consultant and liaison on disability and universal access issues. Together they are striving to make her city more accessible for everyone. She is
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This Video Has Captions Jessica is a health writer, convention speaker, lipstick lover, and a fighter who lives with five chronic illnesses: bipolar disorder, polycystic ovarian syndrome, myasthenia gravis (a disease for which she carries a cane), asthma, and psoriasis. Her website,Fashionably ill, is about surviving pain–mental and physical–with style and humor. She is a
Quality Captions Available Alistair Duggin is Head of Accessibility at the Government Digital Service and is responsible for making sure thatGOV.UK is as accessible as possible He was a front end developer at the BBC for over 11 years with roles including Lead Frontend Developer and Accessibility Champion on the BBC 2012 Olympics websites and
Quality Captions Available Jim Tobias has more than thirty-five years experience in accessible and usable technology in both public and private sectors. He has focused on how technologies are designed and used in education, employment, communication, transportation, commerce, and civic participation, for seniors and people with disabilities. With a Master’s Degree in Industrial Design,
Quality Captions Available In 2014, John Robinson was named one of ten national White House Champions of Change for Disability Employment and honored with the Excelsior College President’s Award for Advocacy in 2010. Since 2011, he’s served as managing partner, CEO and Founder of Our Ability, which provides inclusive workforce and employment consulting, mentoring, workshops,
Quality Captions Available Jonathan Hassell is a thought leader in digital inclusion, with over 14 years experience of embedding accessibility and inclusive design into digital production teams, which he regularly shares at international conferences and summarised in his book ‘Including your missing 20% by embedding web and mobile accessibility’. He is an internationally recognised
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Captions Available Katja Engelhardt has joined the Knowledge Building Team of European Schoolnet in September 2012. She supports several projects (MENTEP, TASK) and regularly prepares reports and studies, e.g. currently the study “An analysis of educational approaches to developing Computational Thinking (CompuThink). Previously, she was involved in the ‘ICT4IAL’ project, the ‘Creative Classrooms Lab’ and