Virtual Panel: Teleworking for People with Disabilities

In celebration of this year's Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), this virtual panel will discuss teleworking for people with disabilities.

Panelists:

• Anne Forrest, Ph.D., has been recognized as one of the nation’s leading patient advocates for people with traumatic brain injury. She lives with persistent symptoms from a mild TBI that she received during a June 1997 car accident and continues to recover.
• Tim Harshbarger, Accessibility Consultant at Deque. Tim has been visually impaired since a young age, he is very passionate about accessibility and believes it should be a part of the web development process.
• Jamie Knight is a Senior Accessibility Specialist at BBC. Jamie enjoys mountain biking and is never seen far from his plush sidekick, Lion. Jamie's areas of expertise include accessibility, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and Autism.
• Mark Lasser (CPACC) joined Deque in 2019 and previously worked as a Senior Accessibility Specialist for Starbucks and as a Senior Director of Accessibility at Charter Communications. Mark graduated the Sanford Institute for Public Policy at Duke University and holds an MBA and an MS from the University of Colorado. 

Watch below:

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• 0:00 Introduction
• 2:06 What technologies or best practices do PwDs ​rely on for teleworking?
• 22:24 What can someone in a PwD's support network do to help them succeed?
• 36:30 What can people without disabilities learn from the pandemic era of increased teleworking?
• 43:37 Q&A

Learn more about how you can add accessible design into your development process in Deque University's comprehensive, instructor-led Accessibility Fundamentals Bootcamp.