Awaiting Quality Captions A seasoned fashion designer, Mindy Scheier has spent her career designing and styling for major fashion houses, including Saks Fifth Avenue and INC private label collections for Bloomingdales. In 2013, Mindy founded Runway of Dreams, an organization that works with top brands and retailers to adapt mainstream clothing lines for people with […]
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Awaiting Quality Captions Dr. David A. Bray began work in public service at age 15, later serving in the private sector before returning as IT Chief for the CDC’s Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program during 9/11; volunteering to deploy to Afghanistan to “think differently” on military and humanitarian issues; and serving as a Senior Executive
Awaiting Quality Captions Prior to Marius Mews joining PIKSL, he had worked for a consulting firm that specialises in integration companies in Germany. Marius holds a PhD in business administration from the University of Hamburg with his research focused primarily on nonprofit organisations and blood donors. After his dissertation, he taught social investment and entrepreneurship as an interim junior
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Awaiting Quality Captions Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) Manager of Digital Content Peter Armstrong has more than 10 years’ experience in digital marketing. He’s developed a passion for and expertise in accessibility while working with people with disabilities during the last five years. Prior to joining AMI in September, 2015, he worked with the Toronto 2015
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This video has captions Steven James Tingus is recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts, advocates, and thought leaders for disability, aging, and health and human services policy and programs. He has more than twenty years of experience in managing issues impacting the disability and aging communities, and the health care and medical
Captions Available Jenny Lay-Flurrie has a passion for seeing people of all abilities reach their full potential. Jenny is Chief Accessibility Officer at Microsoft leading our efforts to drive great products, services, and websites that empower people and organizations to achieve more. Her team is at the forefront of creating positive experiences that apply technology
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Awaiting Quality Captions Molly is 22 years old and from Maidenhead Berkshire, England. Molly was born with Usher Syndrome, only deafness was evident until she was12 years old when she began to go blind and became registered blind at just 14 years old and became a guide dog owner at 16 years old. Usher Syndrome
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Awaiting Quality Captions In 1990 after completing a 5 year degree program in architecture and ready to embark on an architectural career, Chris Lona was diagnosed with a brain tumor and a subsequent autoimmune condition. The tumor left him with double vision and the Myasthenia Gravis caused various ongoing ocular issues such as drooping eyelids.
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Awaiting Quality Captions Thomas Logan is the CEO of Equal Entry and cofounder of A11yNYC – Accessibility New York City. Thomas has been working in the accessibility field for over 13 years. He got his start at UNC with a student project to make a digitized ancient world map accessible through sound and touch to a graduate student
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Awaiting Quality Captions Heydon Pickering is a UX designer, accessibility advocate and illustrator. He works as an accessibility consultant with The Paciello Group and is the accessibility editor for Smashing Magazine. Most of Heydon’s work involves writing articles, training materials, books, and presentations about inclusive design techniques and best practices. He’s particularly interested in fostering
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