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Article 19 - Episode 11 - Equal Entry with Tom and Meryl

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Thomas Logan, CEO of Equal Entry and Meryl Evans, Accessibility and Digital Marketing expert are our guests for this episode of the podcast. Covering an immense range of topics including learning about accessibility through ancient mapmaking, to misconceptions and assumptions to values, virtual reality, and captions. This episode has something for everyone and is sure to energize long time accessibility professionals as well as those who are newer to this field. 

 

 

Resources: 

Meryl.net

Equalentry.com  

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Article 19 - Episode 10, Education, Work, and Media with Nimit Kaur

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Nimit Kaur is a disabilities advocate, recent graduate of Rutgers University, Camden and currently pursuing her J.D. and MSW at Rutgers. Nimit also is a part-time contractor for Tamman, assisting us with quality assurance testing and our Tamman Accessibility House Rules. In this episode we cover a range of topics including her educational journey, her internship and workforce experiences and her preferences for consuming media as a blind woman. 

Just as we have been at Tamman from the moment we started working with her, listeners will be captivated and learn from this unassuming and brilliant woman.

Article 19 - Mini-podcast Episode - The Tamman Website!

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This is a bonus mini-podcast interview with Jessica DiPonziano, lead developer on the new and improved Tamman Website. 

Article 19 - Episode 9 - Web Design and A11y

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Karen Pellegrin is the Digital Web guru for the City and County of Denver. Her range is immediately obvious in this conversation as one steeped in accessible design and training. She discusses her background, role and responsibilities in government, as well as experience guiding a large organization to meet the challenges of ensuring equitable and transparent information is readily available to all citizens. For Karen, this means going beyond doing the bare minimum of 508 or the WCAG standards. There is so much that is required, but Karen's approach is so relatable it helps everyone who engages with her to understand why accessibility is so important.

Article 19 - Episode 8 - A 360° Approach to Accessibility

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In this podcast, we are very thrilled to present our guest, Janet Fiore, President and CEO of The Sierra Group, an award-winning, female-owned company that trains over 6500 corporate professionals annually. As a speaker and a consultative trainer, she offers and delivers accommodation services for individuals with disabilities and for business professionals who recruit, hire and accommodate them. Janet is a social entrepreneur who has combined her business and rehabilitation expertise to drive up employment success for individuals with various disabilities. She has provided input, media and testimony for Congress. Janet has a clear driving motivation regarding her work. She states, "To make a significant noticeable difference in the lives of people we work with, and to do this every day, we set out to find at least one more way, to drive up employment for Americans with disabilities". Tune in to listen to Janet's incredible journey and learn about some amazing assistive technologies that exist and continue to evolve to help workers succeed in their jobs!

Article 19 - Episode 7 - Developing a Semantic Component

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In this podcast, the Tamman team welcomes Mark Dane, a successful user experience engineer with Cesium. He is a professional designer and a developer since high school who even holds a patent! Mark discusses his latest project, a web component for semantically better organization of lists of business objects and actions associated with them. This web component is intended to allow the developers to focus on the presentation of business logic rather than the technical details on the page. Tune in to listen about the invention of this web component and how Mark approaches his universal design thinking.

Article 19 - Episode 6 - Software Engineering with A11y

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Are you a developer/designer new to accessibility? You are guaranteed to find useful advice from Bill in this podcast. Bill Danbury is the lead software engineer and an accessibility expert at Tamman with 25 years of knowledge and experience in coding. Through his experience with digital accessibility, he emphasizes the importance of keeping the user in the forefront of design and reusable code. Bill emphasizes reading your site and understanding how it sounds, not just how it looks. In addition, Bill and the Tamman team tackle the common myth regarding digital accessibility and attractive design. It is true that a good interactive design can and should be made accessible! Tune in to listen to an inspiring expert on digital accessibility; from accessible design to life, there is something to learn for everyone in this podcast.

 

Article 19 - Episode 5 - Digital Document Remediation

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Tune in to listen to the accessibility journey of an inspiring PDF accessibility expert, Liza Grant! Build upon your knowledge on the ways to deliver accessible documents for all through user-centric design and advocacy.

Article 19 - Episode 4 - Access to Information is a Human Right

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In this episode, Mike, Marty and Amanda discuss and analyze a core sentiment to our digital accessibility work. Specifically the belief that ‘access to information is a human right.’ As Molloy states, “information is the social currency of our time.” Information allows us to learn, grow and make more effective decisions. Denial or blocking access to information leads to digital poverty. Tune in and listen to passionate individuals elaborate and debate this ethos. Through their passion and experience, they provide insights into creating equitable access to information for all by unlocking doors to an accessible web.

Article 19 - Episode 3 - The Ideal School

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In this episode, Megan Roper, an art teacher at the Ideal School in Manhattan, New York City discusses how inclusion is central to her work. The Ideal School is an independent inclusion school that was founded by parents of children with disabilities with dreams of creating inclusive education for all. This small school consists of students with disabilities achieving education goals alongside peers of all abilities. Teachers such as Megan rely on a method known as the choice-based method. This method assumes children as the artist. The educator provides them with the necessary tools to build an art design and the student uses their own imagination to create their WOW (wonderful, original work) projects. When children are viewed as the central innovators, projects are valued more by the entire class despite different capabilities. In the same token, digital accessibility focuses all users as the central part of design. Tune in to listen to an inspiring disability advocate and an amazing art teacher talk about her passion and transition to remote learning while working endlessly to provide equal access for all students.