Talking Accessibly

On this episode, we’re going to talk about Accessibility Awareness. How there is accessibility around us and what it means to people’s lives. We offer you an Accessibility Conversation with Louise Flinn from UNC ITS Communications team and their approach to accessible communications. Then a little bit on the backstory and history of Global Accessibility Awareness Day or GAAD, celebrated on the third Thursday of May each year.

This episode of Talking Accessibly is about campus grassroots accessibility initiatives. It features two comfortable conversations with, Beth Lowder the Assistant Director of Community Engagement and Outreach at the UNC School of Social Work and Stephanie Guzman Instructional Designer under Academic Affairs in the School of Nursing at UNC Chapel Hill. Plus an article on accessibility roadmaps and action plans.

This episode of Talking Accessibly is about accommodations, featuring comfortable conversation with Tiffany Bailey, Director of Equal Opportunity and ADA Coordinator at UNC Chapel Hill. We'll talk about accommodations, what are they and who are they good for? Everyone, regardless if you have a disability.

This episode of Talking Accessibly is about liaisons, featuring comfortable conversation with Matias Silva, a Web Developer in The School of Government Information at UNC Chapel Hill and current Co-Chair of the Digital Accessibility Liaisons group. We'll talk about some of his department's plans and some pretty cool initiatives as they prepare for an accessible future along with a brief note on what is a liaison?

The first episode of the show introduces you to the team from the Digital Accessibility Office at UNC. We talk about a topic, the Phantom Thought, where doubt enters the mind when trying to do things accessibly and how to build an accessibility mindset.