Accessibility and Gen AI Podcast

Eamon McErlean, Joe Devon
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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.

  1. 3D AGO

    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/

    1h 15m

  2. 12/22/2025

    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/

    53 min

  3. 11/12/2025

    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/

    55 min

  4. 07/28/2025

    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

    48 min

  5. 07/07/2025

    Josh Miller - Co-CEO & Co-founder, 3Play Media

    OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:44 Introduction 01:24 What's More Challenging... Coaching Your Employees or Your Son's Little League Team? 03:05 How Was 3Play Media Founded? 09:35 How Pedals Are Used For Captioning/Transcription 10:37 Tracking Metrics of Time, Quality, and Accuracy 13:46 What's The Difference Between Captions vs Subtitles? 18:48 Impact of Accessibility and AI 25:03 Importance of Human Involvement with AI 27:13 Current State of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) 32:27 Use of AI Tools Internally At 3Play Media 34:09 How 3Play Media Maintains Its Culture As The Company Expands 36:30 The Different Roles of Each Co-CEO (Josh Miller, Chris Antunes) 39:53 European Accessibility Act and How 3Play Media is Addressing It 44:12 How Gen AI Will Affect Globalization of Accessibility 47:59 How 3Play Media Has Been Recognized for Their Work in Accessibility (Audio Description) 51:44 The Benefits of Audio Description 52:54 Wrap Up -- EPISODE LINKS: 3Play Media https://www.3playmedia.com Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Report https://www.3playmedia.com/blog/annual-state-of-asr-study/ European Accessibility Act https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/disability/union-equality-strategy-rights-persons-disabilities-2021-2030/european-accessibility-act_en 3Play Media's ACCESS 2025 Event https://go.3playmedia.com/en/access/2025-save-the-date 3Play Media's Linktree https://linktr.ee/3playmedia Josh Miller on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgmiller3/

    54 min

  6. 06/09/2025

    Matt Ater - Senior Vice President, Vispero

    OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:57 Introduction 02:07 Matt's Journey into Accessibility 03:45 About Vispero 06:01 Importance of Working With People With Disabilities 08:06 About The Lighthouse For The Blind 11:44 Induction Into The Kiosk Hall of Fame 17:15 Impact of Gen AI on Accessibility 26:08 Visit to CES Tech Week at Capitol Hill 27:17 About JAWS Picture Smart AI 30:35 Balancing Priorities In Leadership 32:36 Things Sighted People Say To Blind People 38:10 Advice To Newcomers In Accessibility 43:43 Future of Vispero and AI 48:57 Percentage of Websites That Are Accessible 55:35 Wrap Up -- EPISODE LINKS: Vispero https://vispero.com The Lighthouse for the Blind https://lhblind.org Kiosk Hall of Fame https://kioskindustry.org/kiosk-hall-fame/ CES Tech Week at Capitol Hill https://www.cta.tech/press-releases/ces-on-the-hill-brings-tech-s-biggest-innovators-to-washington JAWS Picture Smart AI https://support.freedomscientific.com/About/News/Article/227 Video: Vispero - Empowering Independence https://youtu.be/XdgVMsB_HNk Web AIM - Web Accessibility in Mind https://webaim.org ArcTouch https://arctouch.com Matt Ater on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-ater-b7b96a8/

    1 hr

  7. 04/07/2025

    Dylan Barrell - Chief Technology Officer, Deque Systems

    OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 01:04 Introduction 04:46 Dylan's Journey into Accessibility 09:38 About Deque Systems / Automating Accessibility 12:04 Axe-con Keynote and Controversy Around Automation 24:22 Understanding the Criticism 25:48 How AI May Affect Developers & Other Positions 32:17 Maintaining A Culture As A Company Grows 41:36 Experience of Writing A Book 49:35 Future of Deque and Gen AI 55:17 Wrap Up -- EPISODE LINKS: Deque Systems https://www.deque.com Axe-con https://www.deque.com/axe-con Agile Accessibility Handbook: A Practical Guide to Accessible Software Development At Scale https://amplifypublishinggroup.com/product/nonfiction/industries/technology/agile-accessibility-handbook-a-practical-guide-to-accessible-software-development-at-scale/ Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change By Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres The Ride of a Lifetime - By Robert Iger https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/556683/the-ride-of-a-lifetime-by-robert-iger/ Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office By Bill McDermott with Joanne Gordon https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Winners-Dream/Bill-McDermott/9781476761084 Manus https://manus.im Dylan Barrell on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanbarrell/

    58 min

  8. 03/10/2025

    Ted Drake - Global Accessibility and Inclusive Design Leader, Intuit

    OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:36 Introduction 01:35 Working with Victor Tsaran on Accessibility 05:38 Getting Involved with Accessibility 10:47 Soliciting and Maintaining Leadership's Support For Accessibility 13:39 DeafBlind Potter 15:17 European Accessibility Act 18:44 Scaling Accessibility at Intuit 23:00 Incorporating AI at Intuit? 29:39 Personal AI 33:57 Open Source vs Closed Source 36:36 Will AI Replace Testing? 41:15 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference 44:55 Detecting Autism Through Web Browsing 47:12 Raising The Floor 48:46 Advice For Newcomers of Accessibility 52:48 Wrap Up -- EPISODE LINKS: Intuit https://www.intuit.com/accessibility DeafBlind Potter https://www.deafblindpotter.com See Me Cane https://www.seemecane.com European Accessibility Act https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/disability/union-equality-strategy-rights-persons-disabilities-2021-2030/european-accessibility-act_en Personal AI https://www.personal.ai CSUN Assistive Technology Conference https://w2.csun.edu/cod/conference Axe-con Digital Accessibility Conference https://www.deque.com/axe-con Inclusive Design 24 https://inclusivedesign24.org/2024 Raising The Floor https://raisingthefloor.org Ted Drake's Website https://www.last-child.com Ted Drake on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/draket

    55 min
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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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  • Creator
    Eamon McErlean, Joe Devon
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    14
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    © 2024 Accessibility and Gen AI
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