Webinar recap: Accessibility for UX

This panel was originally recorded via Zoom webinar and transcribed using Sonix.

WEBINAR TRANSCRIPT

Katie: [00:00:00] We have opened the flood gates. Hello, everyone. Welcome. Welcome. Come on in. Thank you for being here. We are really excited to discuss accessibility for UX writers and designers today. We’ll get started here in just a minute. Just want to make sure everyone has a second to join. Looks like we have 100 people in right now, which is awesome. Thank you all for spending the hour with us. We’re really, really excited. As you join, please let us know where you are tuning in from. We’ve got me in Detroit, Bobbie, Kristen, and Thy are all on the West Coast and so we’re really excited to have this global conversation with you all today. Just so that everyone is aware, we are recording this session so we can share it with you after. You can watch it when you want some refreshers or if you want to share it with someone on your team who couldn’t be here. And we are using Zoom’s closed caption functionality. So if you go to where the Zoom panel is with all of the icons, you can toggle on or off captions, which is a great accessibility feature from Zoom. But just know that this is all automated. And so if you catch any typos or errors, this is all machine automated captioning. We will do our best to send a follow-up with a full transcript without any typos. So just a quick note on that. You can use the Q&A function to ask questions. I see that we have 70 chats popping up. So let me take a look at some of those. Hello. We’ve got Mexico, Dublin, Germany, Poland, Brazil, and Switzerland. This is incredible.

Katie: [00:02:05] Like I said, you can use the chat to submit any of your questions. And then there also is a Q&A function. So we will keep an eye on that as well. And just a quick note, we received tons of questions. We are still looking through them as we speak. So if we don’t g