Building accessible experiences with AI
Henk Boelman - Cloud Advocate @ Microsoft
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Henk Boelman
Cloud Advocate at Microsoft
@hboelman
github.com/hnky
henkboelman.com
AI building blocks to make your applications more accessible
In this session:
Why?
Disability is a mismatch between someone's abilities
and the way an environment is set up.
It's a human-made problem.
Wheelchairs don’t make the building inaccessible…the stairs do
…the design of products, services, and environments
so that everyone, including people with disabilities, can fully experience them.
Accessibility is…
If you design for Disability…
…It’s a better experience for EVERYONE
- Immersive reader – Dyslexia
- Blurred background – Deaf/ADHD
- Captions and Transcription – Deaf/Other Language
- Video recordings - Absent
- Hands up and emoji - all
Making sense of the world with computer vision and through speech recognition
Microsoft Cognitive Services
Vision
Speech
Language
Knowledge
Start the demos...
Services
Azure Media Services
Video Analyzer
That apply the AI building blocks
More demos...
www.microsoft.com/ai/seeing-ai
Seeing AI
Questions you should be start asking..
Who Am I Building This For and With?
(Bring them in at the design phase not test phase. Requirements not Solutions)
Who Can Experience this? Blind, Deaf, Limited-mobility, Cognitive considerations
(Alt-text, captions, transcripts, recordings, SEO, AccChecker)
Who Am I Unintentionally excluding? Do No Harm.
Make sure everyone has a way to participate
Are Accessibility features/
accommodations available to everyone?
(Not just to those you ask. On by default. Don’t hide them!)
Ask & Learn from feedback and iterate.
feedback -> iterate loop?
“The more inclusive you are, the more innovative you can be.
Together we can create a better and more accessible world for everyone.”
Thank you!
Resources on:
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