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2. Hi, I’m Soren! ✨
Soren Hamby, UXC (They/Them)
@uxnotyoux
Senior Manager of UX and Digital Design
DEI Board Member
3. ● Founded/co-founded accessibility initiatives
● Maintainer at The A11y Project (A-eleven-y)
● Bunch of Certifications
○ Accessibility Program Management
Certification, Deque
● CUNY Graduate Student in Disabilities Studies
● Editing/Proofreading a book for Designers on
Accessibility
● Writing a workbook for organization accessibility
4. Inclusivity is key to achieving
holistic accessibility. It is not
enough to simply provide access;
we must strive to create an
environment that is welcoming
and inclusive for all.
5. What is accessibility?
Accessibility is the process of removing access
barriers and providing the right support to fit
people’s access needs including and
especially, people with disabilities.
7. What is holistic
accessibility?
Across an organization, that every role and
every person having a hand in accessibility
internally and externally understands
accessibility and implements it.
8. 34%
of the working age U.S. population
has a disability
Civilians with hearing, vision, ambulatory, and/or cognitive
disabilities, ages 18-64 under, living in community settings
(https://disabilitycompendium.org/sites/default/files/user-
uploads/Events/2022ReleaseYear/Annual%20Report%20---%202021%20---
%20WEB.pdf)
9. The need for holistic accessibility
Accessibility is an important part of creating a
welcoming and inclusive environment for
everyone.
Holistic accessibility takes into account the
needs of all users, and involves all roles in
providing accessibility. It also shifts the burden
from one or two people to making everyone
equally responsible.
15. Holistic Accessibility can
answer complicated
questions:
Privacy and Accessibility
How do I do research or test
without asking people too
much/too invasive information?
16. 3 P’s of a Robust Accessibility Plan
● People
○ Surveys, training, staffing strategies, and
employee experience
● Process
○ Standards, governance, inclusive vendors
and third party content, etc
● Products
○ Building products that are not only mature
in adapting accessibility in the UI but in
building solutions that meet accessibility
needs
23. Compliance vs inclusion
● Compliance protects companies
● Compliance is not flexible
● Compliance often only takes one disability into
account at a time
● Inclusion thinks about intersections (mobility and
vision, how vision and hearing accessibility
features can benefit everyone)
24. Thank you!
Book list: https://bit.ly/sorensbooklist
Resources: https://www.a11yproject.com/resources/
https://adplist.org/mentors/soren-hamby
https://linktr.ee/uxnotyoux
Editor's Notes
Digital accessibility means making electronic available to and usable by everyone, including and especially, people with disabilities.
Digital accessibility means making electronic available to and usable by everyone, including and especially, people with disabilities.
Digital accessibility means making electronic available to and usable by everyone, including and especially, people with disabilities.
Digital accessibility means making electronic available to and usable by everyone, including and especially, people with disabilities.
Digital accessibility means making electronic available to and usable by everyone, including and especially, people with disabilities.