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.
HOW TO DESIGN TECH SO NOBODY’S LEFT BEHIND
Category Archives: Assisitive Technology
The accessibility and inclusion tipping point
Dylan Alcott, star wheelchair tennis player and basketballer, was a standout success at the Australian Open this year, winning hearts and minds with his brains and backhand.
Designing For Accessibility Doesn’t Drive Costs; It Drives Opportunity
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
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.
There’s already a blueprint for a more accessible internet. If only designers would learn it
The internet can be a hostile space for 15% of the world’s population who experience some form of disability.
Here are the ways AI is helping to improve 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 hearing-impaired students.
Designing with sight impairment in mind
Today we’re excited to launch a brand new guide designed to promote the inclusive design and management of nature-based settings.
3 Innovations That Started Out as Inclusive Design Solutions
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.