AXSChat with Alexis Oh

Alexis Oh designs experiences that bridge physical and digital. She tackles omnichannel customer experience at IKEA. With a background in architecture and systems thinking, she co-leads the Digital Sustainability movement at Ingka, encouraging good software design for the betterment of people and planet. Alongside her day job, Alexis curates the Climate UX group at Rosenfeld […]

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AXSChat with Peter Torres Fremlin

Peter writes Disability Debrief, a weekly newsletter putting a disability lens on world news. It’s a trusted resource read by policy-makers and activists as well as being a unique platform for stories of disabled people in their own words. Previously Peter worked for a decade advising on disability inclusion in international cooperation, with a focus on

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AXSChat with John Graham

John Graham shipped out on a freighter when he was 16, hitchhiked through the Algerian Revolution at 19 and was on the team that made the first ascent of Denali’s North Wall at 20, a climb so dangerous it’s never been repeated. He hitchhiked around the world at 22, working as a correspondent in every

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AXSChat with Darryl Adams

Darryl has recently retired after a xyear long career with Intel where he was an Assistive Technology Innovation Program Manager in the Intel Accessibility Office. Darryl’s mission was to connect his passion for AT innovation with Intel’s product development pipeline to make accessible computing experiences available to everyone, regardless of ability.​ All interview with Darryl:

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AXSChat with Tzveta Dinova, Accessibility Specialist

Tzveta was trained as a designer and anthropologist, and is infinitely curious about the way people interact with both physical and digital products. Professionally, she’s gone from being a furniture designer to developing the Design Museum’s digital design curriculum and is now accessibility lead at ASOS.com. All interview with Tzveta:

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AXSChat with Sara Faatz

Sara is the director of the developer relations team at Progress. She has spent the majority of her career in the developer space, building communities, producing events, creating marketing programs, and more. Sara was selected as a winner of Built In’s 2023 Moxie Awards. The annual awards program recognizes women in tech who have made

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AXSCHat with Detlev Fischer

I started out studying experimental film and later interactive media at Hamburg’s School of Art (HfbK), then went to the School of Art & Design, Coventry, UK, on an MA course in Visual Graphics. I returned to Coventry to do a PhD there, building animated diagrams as an element in technical documentation. But during field

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AXSChat with Dr Gregor Wolbring

Being a lifelong wheelchair user and disability rights activist Dr Gregor Wolbring has been trained as a biochemist in Germany (University of Tuebingen, Max Plank Institute for Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main ) and the UK (University College London and London Biotechnology Ltd)  and worked as a benchwork biochemist at the University of Calgary from 1992-2008.

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Ben VanHook

Ben VanHook is an autistic master’s student pursuing a degree in public policy at George Mason University with an emphasis in education policy. He has extensive disability advocacy experience, having spoken at the United Nations, the Global ADHD Summit, and at several colleges around the United States from Stanford University to John Hopkins University, and

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Sweta Mantrii – writer, disability inclusion enabler and stand-up comic

An MBA turned writer, disability inclusion enabler and stand-up comic, Sweta stumbled upon comedy quite accidentally; just like the other things she stumbles upon while walking with her crutches. Presently, she’s having a gala time as she ‘stands up’ to address the understanding of disability and the disability of understanding – one joke at a

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