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HOW TO DESIGN TECH SO NOBODY’S LEFT BEHIND

Jenny Lay-Flurrie (left) and Satya Nadella (right)

I’VE HAD DEAFNESS since I was little. My sister was born with congenital deafness, and my dad has some too. You’re not really in the cool gang in my family if you don’t have some hearing loss.

Designing For Accessibility Doesn’t Drive Costs; It Drives Opportunity

Women on laptop sitting in an office

In 2014, H&R Block paid $145,000 to settle a suit filed by the U.S. Justice Department that claimed the company’s website, created by HRB Digital LLC, violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 2008, Target was forced to pay $6 million in damages related to its online checkout process.

The blind woman developing tech for the good of others

Chieko Asakawa

An accident in a swimming pool left Chieko Asakawa blind at the age of 14. For the past three decades she’s worked to create technology – now with a big focus on artificial intelligence (AI) – to transform life for the visually impaired.

Here are the ways AI is helping to improve accessibility

Google Maps: Wheelchair accessibility

Today marks the seventh Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a celebration of inclusion and digital access for people with disabilities. Microsoft took the opportunity to unveil the Xbox Adaptive Controller, a gaming controller designed to accommodate a range of special needs, and Apple announced that its Everyone Can Code curricula for the Swift programming language will come to schools with vision- and […]

3 Innovations That Started Out as Inclusive Design Solutions

A typewriter is displayed at Massilia Vintage international fashion and design fair in southeastern France

From tech to media to consumer products, there’s been a big push to make corporate America more inclusive. Kat Holmes, who lead inclusive-design initiatives at Microsoft and Google, wants companies to think beyond workplace culture to consider inclusivity in the context of the products they create.