Accessibility and Gen AI Podcast

Eamon McErlean, Joe Devon

A podcast that interviews the news makers and thought leaders in the world of Accessibility and Artificial Intelligence. Hosted by Eamon McErlean and Joe Devon.

  1. 13 juil.

    Steven Scott & Shaun Preece, Hosts of Double Tap

    OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:34 Introduction 01:08 How Did You Meet and Launch The Show? 08:07 What is AMI (Accessible Media Inc.)? 10:05 How Did Shaun Become Involved with Podcasting? 12:33 What's The Goal of Double Tap? 20:48 Who's The Team Behind Double Tap? 23:42 How Do You Prepare For Each Episode? 27:38 How Has Accessibility Changed Over The Years? 29:35 Why Is It Still Challenging For Some Companies To Understand The Benefits of Accessibility? 31:31 Is Accessibility As Widespread As Some Companies Proclaim? 35:21 Increasing Employment of People with a Disability Could Encourage Accessibility 38:00 How GAAD Is Embraced By Some Companies & Organizations 42:26 Shaun's Idea of Compulsory Disability For The Entire Population 43:23 Steven's Idea For A Netflix Series About A Blind Serial Killer 44:11 How Will AI Affect Accessibility? 46:57 Vibe Coding Is A Lot Easier Than People Think 55:28 How Steven Created An Accessible Radio For Blind People 01:02:09 Wrap Up -- EPISODE LINKS: Double Tap - Where Blind People Talk Techhttps://doubletaponair.com Joe Devon & Eamon McErlean on Double Tap - Feb 2, 2026https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xtFwb3MPzE Joe Devon on Double Tap - May 15, 2026https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Nr6bZRzPI AMIhttps://www.ami.ca RNIBhttps://www.rnib.org.uk Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)https://accessibility.day Claudehttps://claude.com Mastodonhttps://mastodon.social NEO Home Robothttps://www.1x.tech/discover/neo-home-robot Steven Scott on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-scott-7640bbbb/ Double Tap on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/doubletaponair/

  2. 23 avr.

    Eric Provencher, Founder of Repo Prompt

    OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 01:26 Introduction 02:39 Eric's Career Path To Launching Repo Prompt 08:01 Making The Decision To Launch Repo Prompt 10:32 What Is A Context Window And Why Does it Matter? 13:38 What Is Repo Prompt Used For? 18:08 How Do You Solicit Feedback From The Users? 21:02 OpenClaw vs Hermes 24:36 Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering 26:54 Repo Prompt Demonstration and Workflow 45:28 What Have You Learned As An Entreprenuer? 46:38 Why You Should Use Open Source Models with Caution 52:53 Keeping Accessibility In Mind When Coding 01:00:01 Wrap Up -- EPISODE LINKS: Repo Prompthttps://repoprompt.com Unityhttps://unity.com OpenClawhttps://openclaw.ai Hermes Agenthttps://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com Cursorhttps://cursor.com Claude Codehttps://claude.com/product/claude-code Eric Provencher on Xhttps://x.com/pvncher Eric Provencher on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/provencher

  3. 23 mars

    Fred Moltz of Verizon & Stephen Ewell of CTA Foundation

    OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:46 Introduction 01:48 Fred's Journey To Being Chief Accessibility Officer at Verizon 03:07 About CES & Commitment to Accessibility 05:56 Developing The Accessibility Stage at CES 15:48 Idea Behind The Accessibility Stage at CES 21:56 How Verizon Embraced Accessibility 27:29 Steve's Path To His Role At CTA Foundation 34:23 How To Integrate Accessibility At A Corporation 39:11 How Accessibility Can Benefit Everyone 40:21 Importance of Creating Awareness About Accessibility 43:17 Who's Impacted By Accessibility 45:38 Favorite Use of AI and Accessibility Working Together 56:36 Proudest Career Moment vs What You Would Do Differently 01:02:39 Future of the Accessibility Stage at CES 01:08:45 Wrap Up -- EPISODE LINKS: Verizon - Accessibility Resource Centerhttps://www.verizon.com/accessibility CTA Foundationhttps://www.ctafoundation.tech CEShttps://www.ces.tech Stephen Ewell on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/steveewell/ Fred Moltz on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/fred-moltz-b730b713/ --

  4. 2 mars

    Denny Vrandečić - Head of Special Projects at Wikimedia Foundation

    OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:46 Introduction 01:34 What's The Relationship Between Wikimedia and Wikipedia? 02:02 Denny's Professional Background & Current Role 05:32 What is The Semantic Web? 07:58 Original Proposal For The Web vs The Semantic Web 14:12 When Denny Locked Sir Tim Berners-Lee, The Inventor of The Web, In His Car 15:09 What Is A Knowledge Graph? 19:57 About The New Project, Abstract Wikipedia 30:06 Using Functions vs LLMs for Language Translations 40:19 Using AI For Accessibility 44:14 World Models vs. Large Language Models 51:25 How To Support Wikipedia & Contact Denny 54:13 Wrap Up -- EPISODE LINKS: Wikipedia https://www.wikipedia.org Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org Abstract Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia Contact Denny Vrandečić https://mas.to/@vrandecic Denny Vrandečić on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/vrandecic/ Denny Vrandečić on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/vrandezo

  5. 16 févr.

    Eamon McErlean & Joe Devon - AIMAC: The AI Model Accessibility Checker

    OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:50 Introduction 02:23 The Importance and Goals of AIMAC 06:03 Service Now's Priority for Accessibility 12:09 Challenges of Developing AIMAC 17:25 What is AIMAC and how does it function? 21:41 Part of What Inspired AIMAC 24:50 Using OpenRouter - The Unified Interface for LLMs 29:08 AIMAC's Leaderboard of AI Models and How They Ranked 37:03 Examples of System & User Prompts and the Generated HTML Pages 39:56 Using AIMAC For Your Own LLM 40:54 What Surprised Joe The Most (The Results) 43:32 Webpage Previews Generated By All Models For Multiple Categories 44:56 How To Provide Feedback or Contact Joe re: AIMAC 48:56 Pareto Frontier Chart Measures Quality & Cost 51:35 Demonstration of How AIMAC Benefits Screen Readers For People Who Are Visually Impaired 01:06:07 Results of Using MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5 01:09:57 Top 6 Accessibility Issues Caused By AI Models 01:11:58 How Em Dashes Generated by AI Model Affects Accessibility 01:14:13 Wrap Up -- EPISODE LINKS: AIMAC: The AI Model Accessibility Checker https://aimac.ai ServiceNow Accessibility Statement https://www.servicenow.com/accessibility-statement.html GAAD Foundation https://gaad.foundation Accessibility at ServiceNow https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCOmiTb5WX3q5qCG_QqYip2IZrvao7Bwp Webpage Sample: https://aimac.ai/output/reports/current/assets/html/gemini-3-pro-preview/sports-1408 Axe-core - Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core A11y LLM Eval https://microsoft.github.io/a11y-llm-eval-report/ CodeGen Model Eval and Refine Tools https://github.com/aarongustafson/CodeGen-Model-Eval-and-Refine-Tools Evinced https://www.evinced.com WebAIM Million - The 2025 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages https://webaim.org/projects/million/ ArcTouch - The State of Mobile App Accessibility Report https://arctouch.com/state-of-mobile-app-accessibility OpenRouter https://openrouter.ai Moonshot AI https://www.moonshot.ai Github - AI Model Accessibility Checker https://github.com/GAAD-Foundation/AIMAC MiniMax-M1 - The world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model. https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M1 The Pareto Frontier For AI Agents https://cobusgreyling.substack.com/p/the-pareto-frontier-for-ai-agents Em Dash, En Dash and Hyphen: The Guide I Needed https://hrot.substack.com/p/em-dash-en-dash-and-hyphen-the-guide Eamon McErlean on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/emcerlean/ Joe Devon on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/joedevon/ Jennison Asuncion on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennison/

  6. 22/12/2025

    Eugene Woo - CEO of Venngage

    OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:53 Introduction 01:24 Eugene's Background That Led To His Current Role 03:18 What Inspired The Idea for Venngage 06:23 Lessons Learned Being An Entrepreneur of Start-Ups 10:40 How Do You Maintain The Start-Up Culture As A Company Expands 15:04 Venngage's Decision To Focus On Accessibility 19:39 How Venngage Incorporated Accessibility Into Their Product 21:52 Favorite AI Models and Platforms 25:11 Demonstration of Creating An Infographic About Accessibility 36:33 What Are The Testing Processes For Accessibility? 40:08 The Future of Venngage 42:36 Are You Using AI To Build Venngage? 44:03 Have Your Customers' Expectations Changed Since The Use of AI? 46:50 Will AI Democratize Access To Technology or Make It Worse? 48:49 Will AI-based Tools Automatically Make Documents Accessible? 52:33 Wrap Up -- EPISODE LINKS: Venngage https://venngage.com Startup Weekend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_Weekend_(organization) ServiceNow Accessibility Statement https://www.servicenow.com/accessibility-statement.html Eugene Woo https://www.linkedin.com/in/yjwoo/ Venngage on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/venngage/

  7. 12/11/2025

    Molly Lazarus - Director of Remarkable / Arman Nobari & Anthony Gibson - Co-Founders of Good Trouble

    OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 01:29 Introduction 02:08 How Accessibility Became Part of Molly's Career Path 09:33 Lessons Learned From Working In Start-Ups 13:03 Some of the Companies in Remarkable's Accelerator Cohort 17:21 How Companies Are Chosen by Remarkable 19:27 Remarkable's Funding As A Non-Profit Organization 21:34 How Does Molly Use AI In Her Daily Life 25:20 How Will AI Play A Role In Accessibility 30:20 Startups In Remarkable's Accelerator Cohort This Year 34:54 Introduction To Good Trouble 38:21 How Good Trouble's Co-Founders Teamed Up 40:03 How Accessibility Hardware Benefits A Person With A Disability 41:53 Introduction To AbleToPlay 46:28 How AbleToPlay Has Benefited A Family With Special Needs 48:10 About Vault Labs 53:32 Wrap Up -- EPISODE LINKS: Remarkable https://www.remarkable.org How I AI Podcast https://www.youtube.com/@howiaipodcast ServiceNow Releases Voice Agents as part of the AI Experience https://www.servicenow.com/community/servicenow-ai-platform-blog/servicenow-releases-voice-agents-as-part-of-the-ai-experience/ba-p/3419367 Remarkable 2025 Accelerator US Cohort https://www.remarkable.org/blog-posts/remarkable-2025-accelerator-us-cohort Google's Project Relate https://sites.research.google/relate/ The Ask Grandma Project https://www.askgrandma.co Blueberry Technology https://www.blueberry.technology Glidance https://glidance.io WheelPad https://www.wheelpad.com Good Trouble https://www.goodtrouble.games AbleToPlay https://abletoplay.com/pilot Microsoft Super Bowl Commercial https://youtu.be/vQYzsiVscNg Vault Labs https://vaultlabs.co Molly Lazarus https://www.linkedin.com/in/mollymlevitt/ Arman Nobari https://www.linkedin.com/in/armannobari/ https://armannobari.com Anthony Gibson https://www.linkedin.com/in/agibson/

  8. 28/07/2025

    Victor Tsaran - Google Design Platform Accessibility Lead

    OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:43 Introduction 01:27 How Using A Screen Reader Is Like Looking Through A Straw 03:38 What Are Earcons? 04:31 Growing Up Blind In Ukraine & Moving To The US 08:53 Victor On Being A Musician 10:11 Why Did You Start Working With Computers? 11:57 Launching A Computer Center For The Blind 14:11 Victor's Advice On Public Speaking 16:12 Communicating The Importance of Accessibility To People Without A Disability 19:09 Role As Google Design Platform Accessibility Lead 21:56 Recommended Courses For Learning About AI 24:27 What Role Does AI Play In Alt Text For Images? 26:31 Future of AI's Role In Accessibility 28:25 What AI Tools Do You Use For Coding? 32:34 Concerns About AI and Accessibility 34:36 The Trolley Problem - Ethical Dilemmas In AI / Waymo 40:19 Victor's Book Suggestions 41:53 Things Sighted People Say To Blind People 45:31 Making Art and Music Accessible 47:27 Wrap Up -- EPISODE LINKS: Victor Tsaran: An Introduction to Screen Readers https://youtu.be/izrC4R7SsH4 How Blind Users Experience Youtube | Victor Tsaran | Talks at Google https://youtu.be/ewCSjiZ7Cdo Earcon Demonstration https://youtu.be/sv_swxXGc5s TEDxSiliconValley - Victor Tsaran - 12/12/09 https://youtu.be/BsJB73c38yw Braille Writing Devices: Slate and Stylus https://youtu.be/50XCmWMiM-4 CompuServe https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/yaa0ik/compuserve_internet_access_in_1980_only_500_an/ Material Design https://m3.material.io https://m3.material.io/foundations/overview Service Now - Horizon https://horizon.servicenow.com https://horizon.servicenow.com/guidelines/accessibility Victor Tsaran's Music https://open.spotify.com/artist/605ZF2JPei9KqgbXBqYA16 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/victor-tsaran/344507896 https://www.youtube.com/@VictorTsaran/releases Vanderbilt University https://www.vanderbilt.edu https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/bio/?pid=jules-white Andrew Ng's AI For Everyone https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone DeepLearning.AI https://www.deeplearning.ai Gemini Canvas https://gemini.google/overview/canvas/ CodeMirror https://codemirror.net Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com GNU Emacs https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Cursor https://cursor.com Windsurf https://windsurf.com Waymo https://waymo.com Moral Machine https://www.moralmachine.net Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095 https://www.wired.com/story/yanis-varoufakis-technofeudalism-interview/ Emma Donoghue - Author https://www.emmadonoghue.com Ep 9 - Matt Ater - Senior Vice President, Vispero https://youtu.be/n6NGlE3qM3E Ep 2 - Jennison Asuncion - Head of Accessibility at LinkedIn, Co-Founder of GAAD https://youtu.be/X4QsrxskWHU James Teh at NV Access https://www.nvaccess.org/about-nv-access/ OSARA: Open Source Accessibility for the REAPER Application https://osara.reaperaccessibility.com Victor Tsaran's Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/victortsaran https://www.youtube.com/@VictorTsaran https://x.com/vick08

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A podcast that interviews the news makers and thought leaders in the world of Accessibility and Artificial Intelligence. Hosted by Eamon McErlean and Joe Devon.

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  • Création
    Eamon McErlean, Joe Devon
  • Années d’activité
    2024 - 2026
  • Épisodes
    18
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    © 2024 Accessibility and Gen AI
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