- Girl Code Intro by Ineke Scheffers - Accessibility, creating possibilities by Elisabeth Boldewijn - Why accessibility is for everyone by Eva Westerhoff - Reimagining Accessibility through the lens of AI by Dr. Cara Antoine (CMOO at Microsoft) and Lisanne Brons

1. @GirlCodeNL
/GirlCodeNL

2. @GirlCodeNL
/GirlCodeNL
We are Girl Code
katja
ineke
@afkatja
@FYIneke

3. @GirlCodeNL
/GirlCodeNL

4. @GirlCodeNL
/GirlCodeNL
Accessibility, creating possibilities by Elisabeth Boldewijn
Why accessibility is for everyone by Eva Westerhoff
Reimagining Accessibility through the lens of AI
by Dr. Cara Antoine (CMOO at Microsoft) and Lisanne Brons
Q&A with the speakers back on stage
Drinks
Program

5. Accessibility,
creating
possibilities
by Elisabeth Boldewijn

7. Why I’m hosting a GirlCode
& what I’d like to share
with you this evening...

8. Disabled people & finding a job
● Disabled people need to apply for 60 per
cent more jobs than non-disabled
jobseekers before they find work
● more than half (51 percent) of applications
from disabled people result in an
interview against 69 per cent for
non-disabled applicants.
● more than a third (37 percent) of disabled
people who don’t feel confident about
getting a job believe employers won’t hire
them because of their impairment or
condition.
Additional skills
● Innovation and creativity
● Persistence and determination
● Problem solving
● Assistive technology
● Less job hopping

9. My history & how I ended up becoming
a web developer

10. Work & Sport
~ Kitchen Assistant
~ Vapiano pasta chef
~ Vapiano dolci chef
~ Runner

11. Fibromyalgia
● Lower pain threshold or tender points
● Debilitating fatigue
● Anxiety or depression
● Chronic headaches
● Difficulty focusing and concentrating ("fibro
fog")
● Abdominal cramping
● Numbness/tingling in the hands and feet
● Stiffness
Fibromyalgia is a disorder characterized by
widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied
by fatigue, sleep, memory and mood issues.
Researchers believe that fibromyalgia amplifies
painful sensations by affecting the way your
brain processes pain signals.

12. Identifying fibro-friendly jobs
● Freedom of movement
● No harmful physical exertion
● Regular breaks permitted
● Workplace accommodations available
● Set your own schedule
● Minimal stress
● No allergens
● Home-based job

13. Web development & Incentro

14. #teamAwesome
*^_^/*

15. why accessibility is
for everyone

16. about me...

17. disability

18. inclusive
design

19. accessibility

21. 15 %

22. SEO

23. law

24. money

25. human

26. https://www.w3.org/WAI/tips/developing/
what you can do

27. https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/posters/tree/master/accessibility

28. empat.io

30. Reimagining Accessibility with
AI
Dr. Cara Antoine, Director, Marketing &
Operations
Lisanne Brons, Technical Sales Manager
Microsoft, The Netherlands
13 June 2018

31. Future VisionMicrosoft
Culture
AI Empowered
Experiences
Introduction and Agenda
Reimagining Accessibility to positively impact
people’s lives
Agenda:

32. Empower
every person
A short film about reimagining
accessibility for today’s world.

33. Microsoft
Mission
Microsoft
Mission
Empower every person and every
organisation on the planet to achieve
more

34. Empowering
People
Every
person.
Empowered
.
In every
context.

35. How we think about
Disability
Disability
Personal
health
condition
Disability
=
Mismatched
human
interactions

36. ~70% of disabilities…

37. are invisible.

38. 13 million
people suffer
temporary
impairments
Permanent

39. Temporary Impairments
Permanent Temporary

40. 8 million experience situational exclusion
Permanent Temporary Situational

41. Over 1 billion people
with disabilities.

42. Future VisionMicrosoft
Culture
AI Empowered
Experiences

43. “Computers that one day could see, hear,
talk and understand human beings.”

44. HOW
CHILDREN
LEARN

45. HOW
MACHINES
LEARN

46. Probabilistic flow
Training
First
Layer
Input
Higher
Layer
Top
Layer
Output
90% DOG 10% WOLF
Linear flow
AI
developm
ent
switch (animal)
{
case doberman_pinscher:
case german_shepard:
case labrador_retriever:
// Need to list every dog type :(
animaltype = "dog”;
break;
// Managing different poses, ouch
// What about dogs that I missed?
// How about other animals?
// This is tedious
default:
break;
}

47. World
knowledge
Work
knowledge
User
knowledge
Dynamics 365

48. Switchboard
Switchboard
cellular
Meeting
speech
IBM
Switchboard
Broadcast
speech
1993 20172000 2006 2010
Microsoft AI records
Object recognition
Human parity
2016
Machine reading
comprehension
Human parity
Jan 2018
Speech recognition
Human parity
2017
Machine translation
Human parity
March 2018

49. AI Empowered Experiences
Vision
Make your device easier to
see or use with or without a
screen
Hearing
Make your device easier to
hear or use without sound
Physical
Make your device easier to
use of you have limited
reach or strength
Cognition
Make it easier to focus and
get things done with
Windows

50. Vision
Make your device easier to see or use
with or without a screen
Seeing AI
www.SeeingAI.com
Narrator
aka.ms/Windows10Craftsmanship

51. SeeingAI

53. Hearing
Make your device easier to hear or use
without sound
PowerPoint Transcriptions Skype Translator

54. Future visionMicrosoft
culture
AI Powered
Experiences

55. Our vision
Microsoft solutions
dynamically adapt to each
person's situation, abilities
and devices.

56. Microsoft Mission,
continued
Microsoft Mission
Empower every person and every
organisation on the planet to achieve more

57. © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.