Ep 3 - Jenny Lay-Flurrie - Chief Accessibility Officer at Microsoft

Hosts Eamon McErlean and Joe Devon interview Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer at Microsoft. They discuss Jenny's role as CAO at Microsoft, her appreciation for music and how she enjoys it as someone who is deaf, the future of accessibility and artificial intelligence, and more.

OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:25 Introduction
00:55 Early Days; First Computer
05:45 Music For People Who Are Deaf
08:51 Assistive Tech For Music
10:44 Deaf Community
14:35 Sign Language
16:31 Chief Accessibility Officer at Microsoft
23:30 Best Practice: Scale
25:33 Seeing AI
29:20 Working with People with Disabilities
34:08 Captioning Profanity
37:08 Accessibility and Gen AI
42:22 Accessibility During The Pandemic
45:25 What's Ahead?
50:45 GitHub / Accessibility Community
56:18 Wrap Up

TRANSCRIPT:

EPISODE LINKS:
Accessibility at Microsoft

Seeing AI

PODCAST INFO:

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About Accessibility and Gen AI Podcast

The Accessibility and Gen AI Podcast features interviews with the news makers and thought leaders in the world of Accessibility and Artificial Intelligence. Hosted by Eamon McErlean and Joe Devon.

Eamon McErlean is the VP & Global Head of Digital Accessibility and Globalization at ServiceNow.

Joe Devon is the co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) and Chair of the GAAD Foundation.