AXSChat Podcast
AXSChat Podcast
Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh, Neil Milliken
What If Event Accessibility Were The Default?
21 minutes Posted Jun 27, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
Welcome And Meet The Guests
Attendable And The Events Access Gap
Shani’s Path From Events To Access
Captions From Broadcast To Access Loop
Why The Accessible Event Show Exists
Education Plus Suppliers Under One Roof
European Accessibility Act Reality Check
Research On Barriers Disabled Delegates Face
Redefining What Good Looks Like
Who Must Buy In And Fund Access
Making Space For Disabled Speakers
Ensuring Disabled People Benefit Too
Dates Links Livestream And Closing Thanks
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93% of disabled delegates facing barriers at events should be a wake-up call, not a footnote. We sit down with Catherine Grinyer, (Attendable), Shani Dhanda (accessibility consultant and broadcaster), and Orla Pearson (My ClearText and Access Loop) to get honest about why event accessibility is still so inconsistent and what it takes to fix it without hand-waving. We dig into the thinking behind The Accessible Event Show and why it matters now: post-pandemic events are back, sustainability i...