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.

Episodes

  1. 15H AGO

    Ep 12 - 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
  2. JUL 28

    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
  3. JUL 7

    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
  4. FEB 4

    Ed Summers - Head of Accessibility, GitHub

    OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:31 Introduction 01:18 GitHub Copilot & Developers Announcement 02:16 Getting Involved With Accessibility 04:47 Priorities & Challenges in Accessibility 08:30 Developers + Accessibility 14:54 GitHub Copilot 17:35 Benefits of Using Gen AI 22:36 Haptics vs Other Tech 25:39 Using Sonification To Help Read Charts 29:26 Customer Feedback 33:12 How Conversational AI Will Affect User Interface Development 35:53 Coding Accessibility Video Series 36:50 Future of AI & Accessibility 40:42 What's On Your Wall? 41:48 Wrap Up -- EPISODE LINKS: GitHub https://github.com SAS https://www.sas.com Amelia Wattenberger https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/fish-eye GitHub - Coding Disability https://github.com/readme/featured/disability-creativity GitHub - YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/github GitHub - Accessibility Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0lo9MOBetEGvxp03Kh3eIlFvIvfE21KF Physical Intelligence - Robot Folding Laundry https://www.physicalintelligence.company SAS - Accessibility https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVBcK_IpFVi9kCxPXz4dd1HO5x_yLLEHJ SAS - Examining the Details of a Chart Using Sonification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVEflA4dmIk -- PODCAST INFO: Podcast Website: https://accessibility-and-gen-ai.simplecast.com Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/46eflnv Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4eEwo3jUSo3aS7wGhlcxs2 RSS: https://feeds.simplecast.com/nCrQiw1t LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/a11ygenai

    42 min

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4.3
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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.