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Erin Hawley – Digital Content Producer and Manager at Easter Seals

Interview / Neil Milliken / June 6, 2016 / accessibility, Dating, Disability Community, Easter Seals, inclusion, Women with disabilities

Awaiting Quality Captions Erin Hawley is the Digital Content Producer and manager of Easterseals Thrive, an online community for young women with disabilities. She is a self-identified disabled Latina, diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy as a baby and anxiety as an adult. Erin is working on the final project for her Master’s degree in Multicultural and […]

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Paul Smyth – Head of IT Accessibility at Barclay’s

Interview / Neil Milliken / May 9, 2016 / #a11y, accessibility, Accessibility Professional, Barclays, IAAP, Inculsion, Innovation, IT Accessibility, Paul Smyth, Technology Taskforce, Virtual Sign Language

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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Becki Morris – Museum DCN

Interview / Neil Milliken / April 4, 2016 / accessibility, disability, dyslexia, inclusion, Inclusive Education, museums, neurodiversity

Awaiting Quality Captions Becki Morris is a Collections Assistant from Heritage and Culture Warwickshire. She has worked in the heritage sector for 18 years. Becki left the sector in 2011 to set up Adult Dyslexia Support which screens adults for risk of dyslexic traits and trains people with strategies. She is particularly interested in

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Sarah Simcoe – Head of Business Enablement at Fujitsu

Interview / Neil Milliken / March 22, 2016 / #a11y, #BeCompletelyYou, accessibility, Disabilities, Disability Employee Network, Fujitsu, inclusion, IT, SEED

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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David Wu – CEO of Ai Squared

Interview / Neil Milliken / March 8, 2016 / accessibility, assistive technology, AT, boomers, inclusion, low vision, Visual Impairment

Awaiting Quality Captions David is the CEO and President of Ai Squared, an industry leader for assistive technologies serving the vision impaired. The company’s flagship products include ZoomText and sitecues, which have helped hundreds of thousands of people stay productive at work and at home. Dave has over 25 years of experience in taking technology-based

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Gregg Beratan – Educational Consultant, Disability Rights Activists

Interview / Neil Milliken / February 29, 2016 / Ability, accessibility, Activist, Activists, Corporations, CripTheVote, disability, Disability Rights, education, inclusion, Inclusive Education, Organizations

Awaiting Quality Captions Gregg Beratan is an Educational consultant and disability rights activist. He has taught in Universities and worked in disability rights organizations in The United States, England, Poland and India. His research has focused primarily on the ways in which our understandings of disability have served to shape and limit inclusive education in

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Jason Ménard – Ability First, Digital Echidna

Interview / Neil Milliken / February 22, 2016 / #a11y, Ability First, Ability First Coalition, AbilityFirst, accessibility, AODA Champion Award, Awareness accessibility, Content Strategist, Digital Echidna, Disabilities, Disability Community, Disability Issues, inclusion, Inclusive, Leadership, People with Disabilities, pwd

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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Jeff King & Donna Miller – Enterprise

Interview / Neil Milliken / February 8, 2016 / #a11y, accessibility, Corporate Social Responsibility, disability, Diversity, enterprise rentacar, Getting it Right, HR, inclusion, inclusive design, pwd, Rent-A-Car, Technology

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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Marcy Sutton – Engineer, Blogger, Accessibility Advocate

Interview / Neil Milliken / February 1, 2016 / #a11y, #a11ywins, accessibility, Accessibility Wins, Angular Framework, aXe Tool, Deque, disability, Girl Develop It, standards, User Interface, web development, Women in Software, Women in Tech

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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