Article 19

Full Transcript - Article 19, Episode 8 - A 360° Approach to Accessibility 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!

Full Transcript - Article 19, Episode 7 - Developing a Semantic Component 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.

Full Transcript - Article 19, Episode 6 - Software Engineering with A11y 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.

Full Transcript - Article 19 - Episode 5 - Digital Document Remediation 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.

Full Transcript - Episode 4 - Access to Information is a Human Right Summary: 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.

Full Transcript - Episode 3 - The Ideal School Summary: 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.

Full Transcript - Episode 1 - Intro to Article 19 Summary: In this podcast, you will learn more about the mission of Tamman, that access to information is a human right. You will hear from Co-Founder, Michael Mangos, Chief of Staff, Marty Molloy, and Program Manager for Accessibility Initiatives, Amanda Roper as they discuss their accessibility journey, re-interpretation of their world, and their passion for their work! In addition, you will hear ways by which small business owners can make an impact in their workplace by placing “people” in the center of their success. Building an inclusive web requires a mindset and the skillset of inclusion and equal access. At Tamman, we assist in providing businesses the necessary tools to make their webpages inclusive for all and in this podcast, we hope you'll join in a conversation so others take up this mantle as well.

Full Transcript - Episode 2 - Radical Empathy Summary: Meet Wally Zielinski, an amazing and inspiring digital accessibility advocate. Wally discusses his journey of web development with digital accessibility. Through his journey, he describes taking empathy to the next level - Radical Empathy. Radical empathy is the ability to apply the same level of empathy to everyone without exception. This concept is very important to digital accessibility because a true accessible product can only occur through empathizing with the users for whom the product revolves. Let’s dive in to this important conversation about radical empathy and its application to digital accessibility.