Ask Me Anything about Accessibility with AIGA DC

Introduction

At the start of 2021, I had the amazing opportunity to partner with AIGA DC to offer a virtual Ask Me Anything (AMA) event. We did this live via their Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Slack group (which anyone can join)! With the permission of the AIGA DC programming directors, I am publishing the main session so that anyone can access the Q&A, even if they don’t use Slack or happened to miss the event! All of the questions were provided by Nick Fabiani, and answers by myself.

Q&A

Nick: I first got to know your work by reading your blog, where you talk a lot about how to understand and contextualize the intended and unintended consequences of design decisions in digital products we interact with. I mention your blog posts about Stories making social media more addictive and how search algorithms consider allergies to folks all the time.

Can you kick us off by telling us what you’re working on these days and what the focus of your research is lately?

Anna: Lately, my focus has been on the application of inclusive design within organizations. In a lot of my previous articles…