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Laura Kalbag - Accessible, Inclusive, and Ethical Design
Laura Kalbag - Accessible, Inclusive, and Ethical Design
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Length:
74 minutes
Released:
Feb 22, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Laura Kalbag calls on businesses using people’s data for profit to examine the ethics of that model, and talks practical inclusive design and digital accessibility.
Highlights include:
⭐ How are accessibility and inclusive design different?
⭐ What does the inaccessible state of the web say about technologists?
⭐ What’s wrong with companies profiting from our behavioural data?
⭐ Why have you gone to great lengths to live up to your values?
⭐ What can we do to help our organisations to make more ethical decisions?
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Who is Laura Kalbag?
Laura is a designer and developer, as well as the Co-Founder of the Small Technology Foundation, a two-person and one-husky, not-for-profit, that strives for a more ethical, more private, and more just technology industry.
From 2016 until December 2021, the Small Technology Foundation made and supported Better, a digital privacy tool for Safari - across Apple’s operating systems.
Laura is also a passionate proponent for creating a web that is inclusive and accessible. In 2017 she published her first book, “Accessibility for Everyone”, through A Book Apart.
The book is a guide to the accessibility landscape. Helping people to understand disability and impairment challenges; get a handle on important laws and guidelines; and to learn how to plan for, evaluate, and test accessible design.
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Find Laura here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurakalbag/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LauraKalbag
Website: https://laurakalbag.com/
Small Technology Foundation:
Website: https://small-tech.org/
Email: hello@small-tech.org
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Highlights include:
⭐ How are accessibility and inclusive design different?
⭐ What does the inaccessible state of the web say about technologists?
⭐ What’s wrong with companies profiting from our behavioural data?
⭐ Why have you gone to great lengths to live up to your values?
⭐ What can we do to help our organisations to make more ethical decisions?
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Who is Laura Kalbag?
Laura is a designer and developer, as well as the Co-Founder of the Small Technology Foundation, a two-person and one-husky, not-for-profit, that strives for a more ethical, more private, and more just technology industry.
From 2016 until December 2021, the Small Technology Foundation made and supported Better, a digital privacy tool for Safari - across Apple’s operating systems.
Laura is also a passionate proponent for creating a web that is inclusive and accessible. In 2017 she published her first book, “Accessibility for Everyone”, through A Book Apart.
The book is a guide to the accessibility landscape. Helping people to understand disability and impairment challenges; get a handle on important laws and guidelines; and to learn how to plan for, evaluate, and test accessible design.
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Find Laura here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurakalbag/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LauraKalbag
Website: https://laurakalbag.com/
Small Technology Foundation:
Website: https://small-tech.org/
Email: hello@small-tech.org
======
Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen).
Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content!
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/
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Hosted by Brendan Jarvis:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/
Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/
Released:
Feb 22, 2022
Format:
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