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Welcome to the Series

Host Joe Welinske introduces himself and the show - Interviews with accomplished accessibility professionals to learn about their career journeys.

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- Well, hello,

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this is digital accessibility, the people behind progress.

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I'm Joe Welnske

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and I'm the creator

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and host of this series,

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where we get chance to meet the amazing personalities,

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helping to make digital products

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and services available to everyone

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across a wide spectrum of abilities.

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The accessibility directorate Blink,

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which is an evidence driven research

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and design organization.

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It was founded

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and based in Seattle,

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but we now have offices in many cities.

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As the accessibility director,

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I get a chance to guide our clients

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into investing in inclusive design

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and accessibility.

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And I also help all of our practitioners understand

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how accessibility fits into their own roles.

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What we're doing here

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with this podcast is simply a relaxed chat,

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a conversation with accessibility professionals,

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from a lot of different areas,

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finding out how their life fan career path

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has brought them to the work that they do today.

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And hopefully you'll find it as inspiring

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as I have to hear their stories.

About the Podcast

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Digital Accessibility
The People Behind the Progress

About your host

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Joe Welinske

Serving as Accessibility Director at Blink is Joe's main activity. Blink is devoted to helping ensure that digital products and services can be used by everyone. As Director, Joe is responsible for helping Blink's practitioners to build accessibility into everything they do. He also evangelizes the need for accessibility with Blink's clients and partners.
Joe is a co-organizer of the Seattle Inclusive Design and Accessibility meetup group and he serves as the Secretary of the King County Metro Paratransit Advisory Committee.