June 07, 2024 How innovation is making PR more accessible Mission-driven companies can still make a big splash, using technology to reach the right journalists. BY Amy Jackson While it can feel incredibly daunting to compete with massive PR budgets that fund expensive dinners and experiential events, these are no longer required to get coverage of … Continue reading How innovation is making PR more accessible
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Tableau Pulse uses AI to make data more accessible
The new offering from Salesforce’s Tableau will deliver AI-generated digests to your preferred workflows. Kim Davis on February 23, 2024 Tableau, the data visualization platform acquired by Salesforce in 2019, is beginning the roll-out of Tableau Pulse, an AI-driven experience designed to make data more accessible to everyone regardless of expertise with data visualization platforms. … Continue reading Tableau Pulse uses AI to make data more accessible
The quest to build more accessible music tech for blind and visually impaired artists
By Janko Roettgers February 09, 2024 Stevie Wonder. Ray Charles. Andrea Bocelli. If you were to ask a random person to name a blind musician, one of those three would almost inevitably come up. Ask that same person about up-and-coming blind musicians, and they’ll likely draw a blank. That’s no accident, according to Athan … Continue reading The quest to build more accessible music tech for blind and visually impaired artists
A monument to the ultra-rich gets an accessible makeover
By Karen Rosenberg July 15, 2022 In the early years of the 20th century, the Gilded Age financier J.P. Morgan built an opulent library next to his home in Midtown Manhattan to house his collection of rare books and manuscripts. It was designed in an intimidating Neo-Renaissance style by Charles Follet McKim, who modeled … Continue reading A monument to the ultra-rich gets an accessible makeover
These management changes for neurodivergent employees make work more accessible for everyone
By Puneet Sandhu June 29, 2022 When we talk about inclusion today, we think of identity markers such as race, class, ability, and sexual orientation. But another important consideration is neurodiversity, which refers to the different ways in which people’s brains interact with the world around them. This facet of inclusion … Continue reading These management changes for neurodivergent employees make work more accessible for everyone
Checking All the Boxes With Accessible Website Design
Nicole Steinberg May 17, 2021 I think it’s safe to say that we’ve all visited a website at one point or another and had a frustrating experience. Why won’t this site load on mobile? Which form fields are actually mandatory? Who thought 8pt type in yellow was easy to read?!? While the average user may … Continue reading Checking All the Boxes With Accessible Website Design
How to Create Accessible Posts on Instagram
Mark Ankucic May 14, 2021 Instagram isn’t only popular among sighted users. There are many legally blind people with active Instagram accounts. In fact, according to the Royal National Institute of Blind People, 93% of blind people have some level of partial vision. When you also include deaf users – images are silent after all … Continue reading How to Create Accessible Posts on Instagram
5 Steps to Create Accessible Internal Communications
Alice Corner July 16, 2020 geralt / Pixabay Being an Inclusive Employer is more than just making sure you hire diversely. Different people have different needs in the work place and there is no “one size fits all” measure. Internal comms are the lifeline of any business, regardless of its size. From onboarding to communicating … Continue reading 5 Steps to Create Accessible Internal Communications
15 Simple Ways to Make Your Business More Accessible to People With Disabilities
Young Entrepreneur Council — December 18, 2019 Follow @YEC It is remarkably important for businesses to be inclusive and accommodating to people with disabilities. To learn more about what businesses can do — whether it involves store or office setup, hiring, site design or even simple outreach — see what members of the Young Entrepreneur … Continue reading 15 Simple Ways to Make Your Business More Accessible to People With Disabilities
12 Easy Ways to Make Your Website Accessible
Tessa Flores — November 23, 2019 When optimizing your website design, there’s one very important market you’ll want to consider when you’re thinking about access and usability: Worldwide, there are more than one billion people with disabilities that range from visual impairments to learning difficulties to hearing loss — and more. Because the internet isn’t … Continue reading 12 Easy Ways to Make Your Website Accessible