Abigail Klein: Accessibility in software | Designing for Assistive Technology

Files used in the lecture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tvyf...

Learn the basics of assistive technologies people with disabilities use to use a computer! In this lecture by a Google software engineer, we'll go over some of the main assistive technologies people use and will learn how to make websites accessible.

This is the third talk in a series of talks hosted by Designing for Assistive Technology (D4AT) in an effort to educate others about assistive technology (AT).

D4AT is a multi-school collaboration, comprised of schools from California to New York, to create AT for people living with disabilities in our local community and educate students about disability and accessibility issues.

More about the speaker:
Abigail is a software engineer who focuses on Google Chrome and ChromeOS accessibility. In her 5 years at Google, Abigail has specialized in building automated, real-time captioning on Google products using Google Machine Learning's speech recognition technology. Most recently, Abigail built Live Caption on Google Chrome, which captions all audio and video played on Google Chrome on device to ensure that audio and captions never leave your computer. For this work, Abigail recently received Google's Accessibility Innovator award. Abigail has a BS and MEng in computer science from MIT. While at MIT, Abigail co-founded MIT's assistive technology hackathon, ATHack, and was a lab assistant of the assistive technology laboratory for undergraduates.