Windsor Hackforge National Accessibility Week 2024 This month Windsor Hackforge is hosting a series of free events focused on accessibility. The programming aims to increase connections between people with disabilities, businesses, technologists, advocacy groups, and the community at large. The full schedule of events has been released on Hackforge’s website and features topics such as…
Jason McKee, Wired Opinion, November 21, 2019 Beyond fair and equal treatment, what is also at stake with web accessibility is the future of our advancing global civilization. The digital innovations we enjoy today were brought about in large part by a few unique individuals blessed with brilliant minds and tenacity. As it happens, some…
John Brownlee, Modus, September 4, 2019 Designing solutions for people with disabilities offers a peephole into the future Very few people think that those of us who are blind should be exiled from the web altogether, or that people with hearing loss shouldn’t have iPhones. That’s as it should be. But all too often, the…
Kalev Leetaru, Contributor, Forbes, July 6, 2019 Silicon Valley has become obsessed with addressing AI bias. As deep learning algorithms have graduated from the academic research lab into the real world, there has become a growing awareness of the implications of their innate biases as their limited Western training data has collided spectacularly with a…
