Accessibility is for everyone, including you!
summary
Covers concrete wins: use of cochlear implants, PowerPoint and Teams live captions, and Power BI accessibility checkers; cites WHO at 16% worldwide (estimations up to 25%) and the rise of captioning billion-dollar business via YouTube ad indexing. Argues accessibility is a UX problem with low incremental cost, boosts property and product value, creates loyal customers, and recommends testing with actual disabled and neurodivergent users plus W3C and IAAP resources to verify designs.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:17Accessibility benefits everyone
- 9:07Accessibility as a user experience problem
- 17:36Approaching accessibility bias
- 21:45Discrimination impact
- 25:23Disabilities in life
- 31:11Future-proofing with accessibility
- 32:18Q&A
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