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The Accessibility Advantage

The Accessibility Advantage

著者： The Blind Blogger Maxwell Ivey
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 Advocating for more accessibility for and inclusion of people with disabilities through communication & collaboration instead of compliance & shame.Maxwell Ivey マネジメント・リーダーシップ リーダーシップ 経済学
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  • Disability A Market Too Big To Ignore

    Disability A Market Too Big To Ignore
    2025/10/04
    Hello again, I hope you have had a good week so far. I'm writing to share the latest episode of The Accessibility Advantage. In this episode I discuss the issue of just how powerful the disability community may be as a market for the sale of goods and services. I share many of the same thoughts that I share whenever I give talks on the subject of improving accessibility. First, I talk about just how large the community may be. Including people who don't currently identify as having a disability. Then, I address the value of our loyalty as consuemrs of products, services, and content. Third, I explain how vocal we can be in advocating for brands willing to make the effort to become more inclusive. I feel that showing people why they should care about accessibility in a way that goes beyond compliance is a first step. I didn't speak to search engine benefits or reaching the AI bots through accessibility this time. And I didn't cover the many ways improving accessibility will lead to improved user experiences for everyone including those who don't have a disability. On With The Show I' hope that as you learn just how much your business can benefit from improving accessibility that you will want to hire me to help you become more inclusive. Part of working with me can include content creation about your investment such as a future appearance on my podcast to talk about your business. Please send me an email, or book a short chat if you are interested. Thanks for your time. I hope you will join me on the next episode. Take care out there, Max
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    9 分
  • Overlays vs Automation: What’s the Difference, featuring Mike Paciello

    Overlays vs Automation: What’s the Difference, featuring Mike Paciello
    2025/09/26
    Hello again! I hope you've all had a great week. I recently had a conversation that I think is going to improve the discussion we have around digital accessibility. This episode is sponsored by AudioEye and I'm so excited to have had the chance to speak with Mike Paciello, AudioEye's Chief Accessibility Officer. First, we covered a small part of Mike's more than 40 year career in the field of accessibility. I think we could have filled an hour with experiences from the multiple companies he's worked with and the initiatives he has been a part of. Next, we got into one of the most important issues: overlays vs. automation. Mike did a great job of explaining the differences between the two and clearly explained how overlays interfere with existing users' adaptive technology. Then we talked about AudioEye — how the platform is vastly different from an overlay. He explained AudioEye's three-pronged approach to accessibility. He first explained how AudioEye's automation catches 32 WCAG violations, which can automatically be fixed by the platform. He then explained that AudioEye offers Expert Audits where experts and individuals with disabilities dive deeper into content to find and fix accessibility issues. I'm familiar with these Expert Audits as I have participated in a few of them myself. I shared some of that experience during our conversation. Around the 16-minute Mark, Mike said something I loved about the relationship between accessibility and usability and vice versa. I'm a big believer in emphasizing how improving accessibility leads to improved user experiences. Mike discussed how through continued automation, education, and collaboration that we will get to a point where accessibility is treated just like any other aspect of localization. I was so impressed with this ready answer. I look forward to hearing what you learn from our conversation! Show Notes While this episode was not recorded live, it has not been edited. Just like episodes from the golden age of Tv it has several hiccups in it. Streamyard still doesn't offer an easy way to know when I am live, so you can hear Mike telling me we are recording. Sadly, I was so nervous about speaking with Mike that I forgot to sing my intro. And I never did get back to doing our audio descriptions. On With The Show On Youtube:
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    29 分
  • Alex Sanfilippo Being Customer Focused Leads To Accessibility On Podmatch

    Alex Sanfilippo Being Customer Focused Leads To Accessibility On Podmatch
    2025/09/10
    Hello again, I hope your week has been going well so far. I'm so excited to get to speak with my friend, client, and mentor Alex Sanfilippo on the latest episode of my podcast The Accessibility Advantage. Alex is the founder of Podmatch.com A site designed to match podcast hosts with their ideal guests using artificial inteligence. But the real mission of Podmatch is to help podcast hosts & guests reach more listeners, so we can make more money, and change more lives. I met Alex for the first time when we both spoke at the Pecha Kucha track at Podfest Expo in 2019. And that friendship lead to his listening to me about accessibility and eventually hiring me to be the accessibility advisor for Podmatch. What We Discussed Alex first shared about his early entrepreneurial experiences. Then he openly discussed the effect that the mortgage collapse of 2008 had on him. He recounted working menial jobs in corporate before working his way up to the C Suite level at a very early age. He covered the difficult decision to leave corporate to focus on a business of his own again. When I asked him where the customer centric approach came from, he told a story about personal frustrations with a major online business. And how he never wanted to cause that kind of heartbreak for anyone else. He also hopes that other tech founders will see how they are doing things at Podmatch and decide that putting people over numbers is the key to long-term success. He shared the core values of his company, and said that if maintaining those values lead to smaller profits; that would be perfectly fine with him. I then asked him to talk about how maintaining the health of his platform lead to their regularly removing people who don't use the platform. At about the 19 minute mark he tells the story about how being customer centric lead to focusing on accessibility. And for the first time I heard about how much pushback Alex received from other people in the software industry about his public decision to embrace accessibility. He shared their process openly, and we talked a bit about how they are continuing to work to improve accessibility as they continue to grow the platform. About 25 minutes in he starts speaking about the benefits of improving accessibility. Some of which were new to me. At About 29 minutes he introduces his full advisory board which he leans on to continue to improve Podmatch. And at 36 minutes he addresses why people should care about accessibility. Then at about 41 minutes. I asked him why more companies doing the work of improving accessibility don't promote their efforts more openly or more often. Show Notes Still having accessibility issues with Streamyard, so have encouraged my guests to have fun with telling me we are live. Alex decided to play a few chords on his ukulele. Then, I sang a bit of my theme song The Accessibility Advantage. Then we had a great conversation. On With The Show Support Our Sponsor Thanks to Blubrry.com For continuing to support my podcasts with free professional hosting. About Alex I would usually copy my guest's bio to this section. However, Alex would tell me to do less so I can accomplish more. So, I'm just going to give you the link to his About page. Connect With Alex Alex's Website: www.alexsanfilippo.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/AlexJSanfilippo X: www.x.com/alexsanfilippo8 Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/AlexSanfilippoPM Instagram: www.instagram.com/alexsanfilippo7 Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/alexsanfilippo Threads: www.threads.com/@alexsanfilippo7 Reddit: www.reddit.com/user/Alexsanfilippo/
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    45 分
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