AMI Today

The Feature: Lindsay Silver & Sara Higley - Friday October 18th, 2024

Episode Summary

The 8th annual A11yTO Conference was held at the Microsoft headquarters in downtown Toronto. AMI Today had the opportunity to broadcast live from the conference, and to hold some interviews that are being presented on the show this week.

Episode Notes

The 8th annual A11yTO Conference was held at the Microsoft headquarters in downtown Toronto. AMI Today had the opportunity to broadcast live from the conference, and to hold some interviews that are being presented on the show this week. 

Today, host Jacob Shymanski is speaking with two speakers from the conference, Lindsay Silver and Sarah Higley. Lindsay is an accessibility coach at T-Mobile and spoke to Jacob about accessible digital product development. Sarah is a web developer at Microsoft and discussed accessibility in control libraries, notifications and chat apps. 

You can find more information about the conference at www.a11yTO.com

Highlights:

• Show Intro (00:00)
• Introducing Lindsay Silver (00:58)
• Lindsay’s Content Management Systems presentation (2:20)
• What is a content management system? (3:35)
• Lindsay’s work as an Accessibility Coach (6:01)
• The prevalence of content management systems (9:27)
• Trends in digital accessibility (11:03)
• Introducing Sarah Higley (14:20) 
• How does Sarah get people to care about accessibility? (16:01)
• Sarah’s professional background (17:30)
• What is a Live Region? (19:28)
• What is a control library? (23:29)
• Common barriers to accessibility in digital products (25:00)