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Jenny Lay-Flurrie – Chief Accessibility Officer At Microsoft

Interview / Neil Milliken / October 31, 2016 / accessibility, CAO, Chief Accessibility Officer, inclusion, Microsoft

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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Molly Watt – Accessibility Advocate & Consultant

Interview / Neil Milliken / October 24, 2016 / accessibility, Molly Watt Trust, ushers syndrome

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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Heydon Pickering – UX Designer, Accessibility Advocate and Illustrator

Interview / Neil Milliken / October 3, 2016 / accessibility, consultant, Heydon Pickering, HTML, Smashing magazine, The Paciello Group, UX designer, web design

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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Abeer Shakweer, Ph.D., Minister’s Advisor for Social Responsibility and Services

Interview / Neil Milliken / September 27, 2016 / Abeer Shakweer, accessibility, advisor, Ally, Arab Foundation for Social Responsibility, Education Policy, Empower, G3ICT, ICT, ICT in Accessibility in Education for Egyptian schools and universities, inclusion, Misr ElKheir Foundation, Planning and Monitoring Manager, pwd, Scientific Research and Innovation Strategic Unit, Work Environment

Awaiting Quality Captions Abeer Shakweer is the advisor to the Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology for Social Responsibility and Services. She holds a Ph.D., in Engineering, and a M.Sc. in Computer Science, both form the University of Nottingham in the UK. Dr. Shakweer worked as an advisor to Scientific Research and Innovation

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Peter Mahoney – Senior VP and Manager of Dragon for Nuance

Interview / Neil Milliken / September 12, 2016 / #a11y, accessibility, ATG, Dragon Nuance, Dragon Speech, Easter Seals, inclusion, Marketing, People with Disabilities, Performworks, Peter Mahoney, pwd

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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Gaming Accessibility Special

Interview / Neil Milliken / September 6, 2016 / accessibility, Bioshock Infinite, Bryce Johnson, Canadian National Institute for the Blind, Ian Hamilton, inclusive design, Microsoft, Microsoft Inclusive Design, Turtle Rock Studios, Xbox

This edition of AXSChat we have not one but three special guests to talk about gaming accessibility. Tara Voelker of Turtle Rock, Bryce Johnson from XBOX & former AXSChat guest Ian Hamilton: Accessibility Specialist During the interview Ian Announced the Gaming Accessibility Conference 27th Feb the Monday of GDC & CSUN The other event that

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Alistair Duggin

Interview / Neil Milliken / July 25, 2016 / #a11y, accessibility, developer, GDS, Government Digital Service, UX

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

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Jim Tobias

Interview / Neil Milliken / July 18, 2016 / accessibility, Economics, Quantitive Analysis, statisitics

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,

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James Rath – Filmmaker

Interview / Neil Milliken / June 13, 2016 / accessibility, blind, film making, low vision, movies, YouTube

Awaiting Quality Captions James Rath is a legally blind filmmaker. Born with non-correctable conditions Ocular Albinism and Nystagmus. He became passionate about filmmaking at a young age when he was able to see clearer through a viewfinder of a camera. His film work has been featured on CNN, Huffington Post, Aplus, iClarified, Mac Stories, and

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