The University of Guelph Accessibility Conference, Designing for Diverse Abilities

As a Inclusive Media and Design partner, I will be speaking on the Digital Divide and The Dark Matter. Technology, as we are frequently being reminded, holds great promise, and a dark side. Automated tools for assessing website accessibility, for example, can be useful up to an extent – equivalent to a small army of analysts combing umpteen lines of code for barriers. However, those analysts lack judgement, or ability to contextualize like humans can. It would be massively complex to teach machines to exhibit (virtual) wisdom. This presentation is not about automated accessibility tools. It’s about the digital divide, how technology can be used to further place the underprivileged at a disadvantage – and what we can do about it. Join us in Room 160 Johnston Hall, on Wednesday, May 30.
Join me at the University of Guelph Accessibility Conference, Designing for Diverse Abilities, May 29-30, 2018