Forbes Leadership

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Alexa Heinrich is an award-winning social media manager in Central Florida and the creator of the websites Accessible Social and Social Media Tea.

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Peter Winick

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The post Is your work accessible? Is how it helps obvious? Are you sure? appeared first on Thought Leadership Leverage.

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Forbes Leadership

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

are making progress with their DEI initiatives, but accessibility for people with disabilities is frequently ranked low on the priority list, despite the fact that organizations that get disability accessibility right are well-positioned to experience windfalls. Businesses throughout the U.S.

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Forbes Leadership

MAY 19, 2023

In marking this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Google this week published a blog post in which they profile five products and features the company says "ma.

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Forbes Leadership

MAY 30, 2023

To succeed in hybrid and remote work, prioritize information accessibility, company culture, collaboration tools, continuous learning, and performance metrics

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Metrics 81

Forbes Leadership

MAY 31, 2022

Level Access, an industry-leading provider of digital accessibility solutions, recently launched a revolutionary education and training platform. By fully integrating with an organization’s software and auditing tools, Access Academy enables users to learn more impactfully on the job in real-time.

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Forbes Leadership

JANUARY 31, 2023

This year is pivotal for air travel accessibility with the Air Carrier Access Amendments Act due to pass through Congress in September. Paralyzed Veterans of America is at the vanguard of fighting to end one of the few remaining areas of state-sanctioned transport discrimination in the U.S.

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Forbes Leadership

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A new book — Equity & Access: An Analysis of Educational Leadership Preparation, Policy, & Practice — by Denver Fowler, Julian Vasquez Heilig, Sarah Jouganatos, and Arvin Johnson — aims to tackle the issue of school leadership.

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Forbes Leadership

JULY 1, 2022

Founded in 2015 by Iraqi war veteran and intelligence officer Mathew Carroll, Immuta positions itself as the market leader in secure data access, providing data teams with one universal platform to control access to analytical data sets in the Cloud.

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Marketing 94

Forbes Leadership

MAY 16, 2023

As we celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, let's remember the importance of supporting and uplifting disabled founded businesses, not just today, but every d.

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Forbes Leadership

MARCH 17, 2023

This column explores the idea of The Tribe of Accessibility as new way to think about the changing culture of accessibility and its impact on the growth of Disability and Digital Economy of the 21st Century

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Forbes Leadership

MAY 26, 2022

So even though we're designing for that group today, we're designing for everyone else afterward," says Microsoft's Director of Accessibility, Dave Dame. It's just that some of us beat you to it.

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Forbes Leadership

MAY 18, 2023

Under its relatively new director of accessibility, Heather Dowdy, however, the Los Gatos-based entertainment behemoth is slow but steadily rising from obscurity in th.

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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Ahead of this year’s International Day of People with Disabilities, Apple on Wednesday posted a short film to YouTube, titled The Greatest, that showcases people with disabilities using Apple’s accessibility technologies to live their lives.

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Forbes Leadership

MAY 18, 2023

In honor of this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Sony on Thursday shared a first look at the all-new Access Controller for PlayStation 5.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2022

Developers must avoid falling back on outdated guidelines and keep up with the shifting threshold for accessibility.

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Software Diversity Inclusion 99

Forbes Leadership

JUNE 3, 2023

Low productivity costs companies over $150 billion a year, and a significant portion of these costs results from workers who have been unable to have their accessible.

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Forbes Leadership

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Web accessibility is about so much more than just helping blind users navigate websites. Digital accessibility needs are as diverse as the users they serve – as highlighted in a Christmas campaign from digital transformation specialists Cyber-Duck.

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Forbes Leadership

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In a blog post published on Thursday, autonomous driving startup Waymo announced the formation of what the Mountain View-based company calls the Waymo Accessibility Network.

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Forbes Leadership

MAY 19, 2023

This column explores the role of Accessibility as a broadening language in the future of work moving beyond just the digital economy.

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Forbes Leadership

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In announcing a first-of-its-kind Accessibility Discovery Centre at its London offices, Google is committing to viewing accessibility, not simply as a set of considerations for each new product, but as a far broader ongoing journey of knowledge enrichment.

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Forbes Leadership

AUGUST 10, 2022

Given how May’s announcements was a grand peek behind the curtain at Netflix’s accessibility efforts, the screenings made sense as a way to literally band a community together.

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Forbes Leadership

AUGUST 2, 2022

New research from LeanIn.Org reveals that most employees under age 40, regardless of their political affiliation, want to work for a company that supports access to abortion. Many of these employees would consider switching jobs to preserve this access.

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MAY 26, 2023

It's time to reduce stigma, promote self-care and help those in need access quality mental health care and resources.

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MAY 12, 2023

The new version, Firefox 113, includes an under-the-hood revamp to the software’s accessibility code such that the browser plays nicer with assistive technologies like screen readers.

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Forbes Leadership

MARCH 24, 2023

The joint venture by Heart of America and GoalZero to provide electricity (and thus internet access) to people of the Navajo Nation is a shining example of the latter.

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Forbes Leadership

MAY 24, 2023

Put simply, the Loona is a piece of assistive technology meant to make responding to one’s bodily functions a more accessible experience.

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Forbes Leadership

MAY 23, 2023

To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day last week, Airbnb published a blog post in which the San Francisco-based travel company announced numerous updates to h.

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Travel Diversity Inclusion 62

Forbes Leadership

MAY 19, 2023

The idea is simple: by making charting faster and more accessible—this is accessibility too, especially for doctors with certain conditions of their own—the more physi.

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Forbes Leadership

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Earlier this month, Microsoft-owned Xbox held what they called an accessibility showcase during which new accessibility-centric updates were shared.

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Inclusion Diversity 88

Forbes Leadership

MAY 17, 2023

In commemorating Global Accessibility Day this week, San Jose-based Adobe on Wednesday announced the all-new Adobe PDF Accessibility Auto-Tag API.

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Forbes Leadership

MARCH 24, 2023

The Department of Justice launches a rulemaking procedure in May for technical standards for website accessibility in relation to the law. This represents an important moment in the history of web development as stakeholders look to identify short- and medium-term priorities.

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Forbes Leadership

AUGUST 23, 2022

The pandemic has given able-bodied people a crash course in accessibility—in other words, the scramble to accommodate to a harsh reality in order to live is precisely what disabled people have been forced to do forever.

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Forbes Leadership

MAY 19, 2023

In commemorating Global Accessibility Awareness Day this week, the Santa Clara-based tech company announced an initiative to use technology in making hearing aids more.

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Forbes Leadership

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Research undertaken by the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind demonstrates that key accessibility barriers prevail across many of the candidate websites of those vying for office in the November midterm elections in vital swing states.

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Forbes Leadership

APRIL 3, 2023

[The report] surveyed 178 governmental leaders (federal, state, county, and municipal), customer experience, and IT professionals to uncover what, if any, strides are being made to amplify digital accessibility for the disabled contingent of the citizenry.

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Forbes Leadership

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It’s the experiential aspects of using the MacBook Pro that make it worthwhile, and crucially in an accessibility context, nicer to use.

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