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Accessibility and Ethics in Podcasting with Meg Wilcox - EP 106
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Accessibility and Ethics in Podcasting with Meg Wilcox - EP 106

The Podcaster's Guide to a Visible Voice · Mary Chan

December 1, 202547m 48s

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What assumptions are holding you back from creating a more accessible show? If you knew more about your listener's accessibility needs, how would that change your show? Podcasting borrows so much of its policy and practice from more traditional forms of media, and while that's given us a great place to start, it's also slowed down innovation in this unique medium.

Meg Wilcox is a journalist and professor at Mount Royal University. Her research focuses on where podcasting could improve in terms of accessibility and ethics. In this episode, she shares how her experience producing an audio memoir for a woman with vision impairment prompted her to reconsider how we approach everything from recording and publishing to promoting our shows. You'll learn about the ethics of copyright ownership, the slow adoption of accessibility tools, and the ongoing barriers that, if dismantled, would give anyone with a podcasting dream the tools to make it come true.

Reframe how you think about your show's accessibility and availability:

  • The power of accessibility upgrades to make podcasting better for everyone;
  • The importance of understanding your audience and what they need;
  • What's still missing in the wider world of media accessibility;
  • Our flawed expectations around what's "professional" in audio.

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