The Accessibility Advantage

Hello again, I hope you are having an enjoyable weekend wherever you are watching, listening, or reading from. On this episode of The Accessibility Advantage, I sat down with Lauren Harris, co-founder of Reliable PR & Marketing. Lauren and I found a lot of common ground I didn't expect going in not just between marketing and accessibility, but in how both fields are being reshaped by AI in ways most business owners haven't caught up to yet. And I found the thread of strategy over tactics applies to so much more of our lives than business or marketing. On With The...

Hello again, everybody. I hope this finds you well, wherever in the world you happen to be listening or reading from. On this episode of The Accessibility Advantage, I sat down with Scott Wintheiser, CEO and Founding Partner of Lightburn, a Milwaukee-based digital CX agency he co-founded in 1998. Scott has more than 28 years in digital and e-commerce, has founded and sold multiple businesses along the way, and even had a documentary screened at Sundance. These days, Lightburn's team of 20-plus works mostly with mid-size manufacturers, helping them handle everything from web design and development to CMS strategy and e-commerce. I...

Hello again, I hope you are having a peaceful enjoyable weekend wherever you may live. For the first time in a while I'm writing to share a new episode of my podcast The Accessibility Advantage After over two months of physical therapy to treat a bumm shoulder, I'm feeling up to sharing some of the great conversations I've been having. Because you know that even when I don't feel up to writing or blogging I'm not going to stop talking, singing, or telling stories. On this episode, I sat down with Daniel Hodges, JD, MHA — a lawyer, disability advocate, and th...

Hello again, I hope your week is getting off to a great start. I know mine is because I'm blessed to be speaking with Melih Oztalay owner of Smart Finds Marketing on the latest episode of my podcast The Accessibility Advantage. He shared some of his journey as a business owner and marketing expert. He talked about building accessibility into the user experience. He touched on his expectations for the impact of the EAA, European Accessibility Act, on future US adoption of accessibility best practices. He made a passionate case for word press as an accessible platform with tools to...

Hello again, I hope your week has been going well. Today, I'm writing to share the latest interview from my podcast The Accessibility Advantage. This time I am blessed to speak with Sarah Johnson Founder and director of Content First Design. We had a great conversation about how accessibility and great user experience come together in content first design. She spoke of how her first exposure to the idea of content first design while trying to design an engaging interactive course on marketing. She spoke about the importance of strong consistent structure for both accessibility and good content design. She...

Hello again, I hope you and the people you care about are doing well. This time on The Accessibility Advantage I'm bringing you a conversation with Michael Leung who is the founder of Inner Flo He shared about having a detached retina early in life and almost losing vision on one side. He talked about how his rehab exposed him to many older people which started him thinking about the challenges they live with. He recently found out that his vision has decreased and how working on this project is part of his long-term plan. He mentioned how a business...

Hello again, I hope you have had a good week so far. I'm writing to share the latest episode of The Accessibility Advantage. In this episode I discuss the issue of just how powerful the disability community may be as a market for the sale of goods and services. I share many of the same thoughts that I share whenever I give talks on the subject of improving accessibility. First, I talk about just how large the community may be. Including people who don't currently identify as having a disability. Then, I address the value of our loyalty as consuemrs...

Hello again! I hope you've all had a great week. I recently had a conversation that I think is going to improve the discussion we have around digital accessibility. This episode is sponsored by AudioEye and I'm so excited to have had the chance to speak with Mike Paciello, AudioEye's Chief Accessibility Officer. First, we covered a small part of Mike's more than 40 year career in the field of accessibility. I think we could have filled an hour with experiences from the multiple companies he's worked with and the initiatives he has been a part of. Next, we got into...

Hello again, I hope your week has been going well so far. I'm so excited to get to speak with my friend, client, and mentor Alex Sanfilippo on the latest episode of my podcast The Accessibility Advantage. Alex is the founder of Podmatch.com A site designed to match podcast hosts with their ideal guests using artificial inteligence. But the real mission of Podmatch is to help podcast hosts & guests reach more listeners, so we can make more money, and change more lives. I met Alex for the first time when we both spoke at the Pecha Kucha track at...

Hello again, Since it's the weekend for most of you reading this post, I hope you have plans to spend relaxed enjoyable time with your friends, family, and pets. This time on The Accessibility Advantage i'm blessed to speak with Douglas Katz. He is a West Point graduate and disabled Army veteran trying to improve the lives of people with disabilities by helping design and bring to market better tools. Plus he sees the NULU Knife as just a first step. He has started the Red Leg Innovation group to help other inventors refine their ideas, establish a production process...

Hello again, I hope you are having a good weekend so far my friends. This time I'm sharing a live video I recorded while trying to find a more accessible method for recording live interviews for my podcast. Why Am I Doing This? My friend, mentor, and client Alex Sanfilippo founder of Podmatch has encouraged me to set a goal of turning The Accessibility Advantage into a daily live show. He believes, and I agree; that most anyone who meets me wants to help me or work with me. So I can see how doing more podcast interviews could be...

Hello again, I hope your week is getting off to a good start. Today, I'm writing to share the latest interview for my podcast The Accessibility Advantage. This time I had the pleasure of speaking with Lee-Anne Reuber the CEO and Founder of The Sekond Skin Society which is the first truly accessible fitness app on the market. It also brings together able bodied people and their differently abled friends, family members, and coworkers to exercise together and come together to overcome the missconceptions people have about the disabled. This is also another of my episodes sponsored by Audio Eye. ...

Hello again, I hope you are looking forward to a fun weekend with friends, family, or coworkers. This time on my podcast The Accessibility Advantage I'm honored to be speaking with Kay Honig owner of Kay Tours Mexico. This is a special occasion because this is my first ever live interview. Kay should be congratulated for his courage. Our Conversation First, we talked about how he went from working in corporate in Germany to owning his own specialty tourism business in Cancun Mexico. While this show isn't necessarily inspirational, you should take heed from his story about how a part...

Hello Again, I hope you are doing well. And I hope you learn something you can really use today. On this episode of The Accessibility Advantage I'm excited to bring you a conversation with Jason Barnard. Known as The Brand SERP Guy, he is an entrepreneur, CEO and founder of Kalicube, a groundbreaking digital marketing agency that helps the world’s most dynamic business leaders move from being one amongst many to become The Reference in their industry. We will be talking about the future of search engine brand building in the coming age of AI and the importance of em...

Hello again, I hope you are doing as well as possible. This time on The Accessibility Advantage I am blessed to have a conversation with Jenna Udenberg. She shared about growing up in the North Shore area of Minnesota and being involved in lots of outdoor activities growing up. Then she talked about being diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, and how that eventually lead to her living her life in a wheel chair from the age of eight. She spoke about how she learned to advocate for herself from an early age, and how this effected her college years. Her...

Hello again, I hope you are all having a good week so far. Today, I am writing to share the latest episode of my podcast The Accessibility Advantage. This time, I am speaking with Missy Sue Mastel of Masstel Communications. She oversees the financial function of non-profit organizations. She also has a passion for inclusivity, accessibility, and equality for everyone. We began our conversation by talking about her background as a CPA for for-profit companies where she wasn’t personally satisfied. And how this lead to her moving to working with nonprofits where she teaches them to focus on the va...

Hello again, I hope you are doing well. When I first decided to start the Accessibility Advantage Podcast, I promised that I would be providing short 101 tutorials, sharing case studies of my clients, and hosting interviews with organization leaders who have embraced accessibility to their benefit. Today, I'm sharing my first 101 tutorial. It is about an aspect of accessibility that most people I talk to are still not familiar with. Today's Subject That is the fact that most adaptive technology users like myself do not have regular access to a mouse. Often, we are frustrated or even made angry by...

Hello again, I hope things are going well for you and your family. I mean this sincerely considering how many challenges we are all facing these days. I'm excited to finally be sharing my first interview on the new podcast that I announced over a year ago. Finally, after a broken laptop, a successful crowd funding campaign, and two major storms in the Houston area; here I am. And my first guest is a great business owner and gentleman Tyler King. He is the CEO of Less Annoying CRM What Is CRM? For those of you who do not know...

Hello friends, I have decided to embrace my role as an expert on digital accessibility. I have spent over 15 years educating website owners about my needs and the needs of people like me. And recently, most of my income has come from writing, consulting, and speaking on the subject of digital accessibility. Along with this discovery came the realization that there aren't many people talking about accessibility from my point of view. That being emphasizing how accessibility and inclusion isn't just the right thing to do but it is in the best interests of every business, nonprofit, and government agency. ...