Anne Taylor

Ensuring Accessibility Through Empathy; Engineering Excellence and Policy

Anne Taylor

Talk: Ensuring Accessibility Through Empathy; Engineering Excellence and Policy

Anne Taylor speaks about her experience as an accessibility advocate for the past 15 years, including examples of engineering excellence, based on her co-authored book "Ensuring Digital Accessibility through Process and Policy".

Published

24 Oct, 2016

Duration

46 mins

Location

Kirkland

Moderator

Anna Cavender

Categories

Technology

Anne Taylor

Anne Taylor served as the Director of Access Technology (AT) at the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) from 2004 until 2015. She is co-author of the book “Ensuring Digital Content Accessibility through Policies and Procedures." Anne now serves as the SR Supportability PM Accessibility on the Corporate External and Legal Affairs (CELA) Accessibility Team at Microsoft.

Ensuring Digital Accessibility through Process and Policy

This book provides readers with a must-have resource to digital accessibility from both a technical and policy perspective. Inaccessible digital interfaces and content often lead to forms of societal discrimination that may be illegal under various laws. This book is unique in that it provides a multi-disciplinary understanding of digital accessibility.

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