Patrycja Polowczyk dives into speech accessibility and different mechanics that games implement in order to facilitate and enhance cooperation and information flow.
This talk focuses on exploring the solutions that work and those that fall short for people with speech disabilities.
Could a new typeface make it easier for the more than 400 million Arabic speakers around the world to read?
Type designers Dr. Nadine Chahine and Thomas Jockin joined forces to find out. They created Readex Pro in Arabic using the methodology behind Lexend, made for Latin. The name Readex was chosen as a shortened form of “reading expanded.”
Large language models and the coding tools built around them (Github, Amazon Code Whisperer) have made it faster than ever to create code. However, since the majority of the code used to train these models is itself inaccessible, the code completions they offer are more often than not, inaccessible.
The good news for accessibility is, there are some important techniques that get around this problem. Come learn how it's easier than ever to build web and mobile experiences the right way from the get-go.
