Samuel is a seasoned web accessibility and inclusive design professional with diverse industry experience. He is passionate about applying and maintaining accessibility guidelines across business units and portfolios. He has been with Sun Life since April 2015, when he joined as UI Design & Technical Lead role. He later transitioned to a Principal Accessibility Specialist. Samuel has designations through the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) as a Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) and Accessible Documents Specialist (ADS). Go to https://digita11yaccessible.io/videos-and-podcasts/webinar-pre-event-interview-with-samuel-tesfamichael/ for a fully accessible version of this episode.

Jake Abma, Accessibility Lead at ING Bank, discusses his thoughts on the future of #Digital #Accessibility, what it means, and how we can best implement it. For a fully accessible version of this episode head to: https://bit.ly/DA_JakeAbma #Poscast #JakeAbma #DigitalAccessibility #A11y #Banking #Finance #Insurance

Ahead of the Users, Data & UX: How to Maximize Audience Reach Webinar with Gareth Ford Williams on June 23rd. Digita11y Accessible Founder Juan Olarte talks with Gareth Ford Williams & Charlie Turrell of Ab11y.com about some of the challenges for organizations that wants to deliver accessibility in a meaningful and sustainable way.  For a fully accessible version of the podcast, including video, closed captioning and a transcript, go tohttps://bit.ly/DA_Ab11Y

In anticipation of the 11th Annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), we interview Beth Somerfield and Andrew Skinner of Anthro-Tech about increasing digital engagement through accessibility and the benefits of human-centered design.  For a fully accessible version of the podcast, including video, closed captioning and a transcript, go to https://bit.ly/DAPodcastAntroTech

As part of the 11th Annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), we interview Phil Yatvin and Ben Chargot of The Chicago Lighthouse about accessibility, impact and the rewards of purpose-driven projects. For a fully accessible version of the podcast, including video, closed captioning and a transcript, go to https://lnkd.in/eD2a2tAE

As part of the 11th Annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), Digita11y Accessible Founder Juan Olarte interviews Kara Zirkle, an educator and consultant at Dell. Kara has been in the field of accessibility for a long time, starting while still in college at George Mason University. She’s always had an interest in technology, especially with assistive technology and Section 508 coming into the conversation. From there, her career path has chosen itself and allowed her to work in government, non profits, corporate, and accessibility service companies. Within that, she’s been able to focus her career on accessibility as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), across all of these areas and it’s her passion to be able to really integrate accessibility into the infrastructure of the business and the enterprise to be able to make it more accessible for everyone. For a fully accessible version of the podcast, including video, closed captioning and a transcript, go to http://tinyurl.com/gaad2022kara

As part of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GADD), we interview Jennison Asuncion, the co-founder of GADD and Head of Accessibility Engineering Evangelism at LinkedIn. He tells the fascinating story how the idea for GADD got its spark, why he decided to move to Silicon Valley, what he accomplished during his time in Toronto to accelerate digital accessibility, and also talks about some of the differences in the digital accessibility scenes of the Bay Area vs Toronto.  For a fully accessible version of the podcast, including video, closed captioning and a transcript, go to tinyurl.com/GAAD2022jennison