Google's Eve Andersson tells Co.Design how today's accessibility problems could lead to improvements in robots, Google Maps, and even YouTube. "Accessibility is a basic human right," Eve Andersson tells me, sitting on a lawn at the Shoreline Amphitheater during this year's Google I/0 developer conference. "It benefits everyone." Soft spoken and ginger-haired, Andersson is the

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reportedly opened as many as 350 recent nationwide complaint investigations into whether educational agencies' websites are accessible to individuals with disabilities.

In order to ensure appropriate accessible technology is used in the financial services sector, it is important that customers with disabilities know what’s available to them. A 2015 report released by the National Disability Institute (NDI) found: Forty-six percent of households headed by an adult with a disability were unbanked or underbanked in 2013, compared

When I was a kid I played Army and caught frogs. I often joke that my adult career in criminal justice was a natural consequence of those activities. What else could I do? It never occurred to me to become a disability rights advocate. But in some measure that is what I have become. Because

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank, about 15.3 percent of the world’s population lives with some form of disability. Many of them are not provided with equal opportunities in obtaining financial products and services as compared with their peers; they are often unable to engage in services involving the financial sector

Published April 29, 2016 By John D. Kemp, President & CEO of The Viscardi Center, and Brandon M. Macsata, General Consultant, National Business & Disability Council (NBDC) at The Viscardi Center In 2013, Dorie Clark outlined in Forbes Magazine how societal acceptance toward the LGBT community was transforming the modern day business enterprise. [1] For businesses

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Universal accessibility in the Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) sector holds unparalleled promise and opportunity for people with disabilities never before seen in our history.

Albert J. Rizzi, 52, who is blind and runs the My Blind Spot educational and advocacy nonprofit, says many websites and mobile apps aren't coded to accommodate assistive technologies like screen readers.