Accessible creativity: Can you see me? with Ashleigh Lodge
How can we consider ourselves creative people if what we create isn’t accessible to everyone? Disability and accessibility are topics that are invisible to most of us: if you aren’t disabled yourself, or don’t have a close relationship with a person with a disability, you likely don’t realize how both the physical and digital worlds create barriers for the one in five Canadians who are disabled.
About the speaker
Ashleigh manages a team of over 20 developers, UX designers and QA analysts who work to maintain and grow two eLearning products.
Ashleigh is a vocal advocate for accessibility and inclusive design, not least because she herself has an invisible disability/chronic pain condition called fibromyalgia. She has spoken about accessibility to a variety of audiences, including TedxWinnipeg 2019, where she brought the idea and foundations of digital accessibility to an audience of nearly 700 Winnipeggers. Ashleigh has also published articles on digital accessibility in Code Magazine in 2019 and 2020.
In her free time, Ashleigh consumes a truly frightening amount of pop culture media, including movies, TV shows, comic books and novels. You can usually find her with Pokémon Go open on her phone, no matter where she is or what she's (supposed to be) doing.
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