Awaiting Quality Captions Peter Mahoney is the senior vice president and general manager of Dragon for Nuance. He is responsible for all aspects of the Dragon speech recognition business, encompassing the healthcare, enterprise, and consumer markets. Peter joined the company in 2004 as the vice president of worldwide marketing for the speech division. Prior to […]
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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
Awaiting Quality Captions Heather Moore and Linn Vizard are designers at Usability Matters, a user experience research, strategy and design firm that specializes in designing accessible user interfaces that work for everyone. About Heather Moore: Heather Moore is a visual designer at Usability Matters, where she focuses on designing accessible experiences. Before finding her true
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Awaiting Quality Captions Rama Gheerawo is Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design and the RCA Reader in Inclusive Design. With nearly two decades in the design industry, his interest is in people-centred and socially inclusive design. He leads the Centre’s Age & Ability research lab which creates design that improves the lives of people of
Awaiting Quality Captions Paul Smyth is the Head of IT Accessibility for Barclays, responsible for identifying, anticipating and addressing technological barriers faced by disabled and older customers and colleagues in doing business with or being employed by the bank. He has worked for Barclays for the past 13 years after joining as a Finance graduate,
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Awaiting Quality Captions As the co-founder and CEO of SSB BART Group, Tim Springer had the vision of creating a world where all digital systems are accessible to people with disabilities. Tim has dedicated nearly two decades to ensuring that technology will not only meet regulatory standards but also support real world use by individuals
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Awaiting Quality Captions We had a few technical issues with the sound so Antonio is not audible. Sarah Simcoe is Head of Business Enablement within Fujitsu UK and Ireland’s Business & Application Services business. Sarah is also the Chair of Fujitsu UK and Ireland’s Disability Employee Network, SEED, a role she has held for the
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Awaiting Quality Captions The Ability First Coalition is a community initiative; a group of volunteers from various sectors of business that raise awareness of disability issues in the London and area workforce. This business-to-business partnership aims to bring employers together to share best practices related to hiring and retaining people with disabilities. Jason Ménard is Content
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Donna Miller & Jeff King Awaiting Quality Captions The Corporate Officers within Enterprise each champion certain strands of Diversity. Donna and Jeff are both Disability Champions. Donna introduced Enterprise to the Business Disability Forum and signed Enterprise up for membership. Enterprise have embraced the BDFand are active members with Jeff recently taking on the Co-Chair
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Awaiting Quality Captions Marcy Sutton is an accessibility advocate and engineer from Seattle. She currently works for Deque on their aXe tool and was a core contributor to the Angular framework and is passionate about tooling to help developers improve the web for people with disabilities. Her blog, Accessibility Wins, highlights accessible user interfaces and tools,
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