Accessibility Is Something We Improve: The Ideal Society I Aim For from the Perspective of a Person with Visual Impairment
summary
A completely blind accessibility specialist describes practical successes and failures using assistive tech: screen readers (NVDA, Narrator, TalkBack) can read web and Slack emojis, voice assistants control air conditioners, and Google Docs enables live collaborative meeting notes, while paper-only city forms, failed My Number photo capture, unreadable payslips and clinics refusing solo COVID tests prevent participation. The talk argues accessibility must be built into development rather than retrofitted, technology fixes should replace manual workarounds, and calls for SmartHR accessibility efforts, better user–developer communication, and improved IT literacy around assistive technologies.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:33Accessibility for visually impaired
- 7:07Accessibility at work and daily life
- 12:15Gaps in accessibility progress
- 18:04Why accessibility lags
- 20:39Making accessibility widespread
- 22:51Vision for accessible society
- 25:25Promoting accessibility
- 27:31Key messages
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