13 Letters
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
When Everybody's Watching
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Access to television is in many ways still evolving, and as one of the leading TV, phone and internet providers in the United States, Spectrum is thin...
Cognitive Dissidents
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shell Little actually studied accessibility in college – making her a rare example of someone who didn't "stumble" into accessibility but hit the jo...
Rethink the Screen
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Martez Mott is a senior researcher at the Ability Group at Microsoft Research, where he works everyday to challenge assumptions and rethink paradigms ...
Perfect Mismatch
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The author of the beautiful accessibility book Mismatch, Kat Holmes, comes on to share her own personal journey and how inclusive design can take som...
Adrian and the Overlays
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Accessibility expert Adrian Roselli comes on the show to share his story, and talk about the questionable implications of the now-popular "accessibili...
College Try
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Colleges and universities are proving grounds for digital and physical accessibility. With disabled students living on their own in many cases for the...
Meet The Letterheads: Paul Parravano
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Here at 13 Letters, we talk a lot about inclusive design and accessibility – but these terms mean nothing if we don't keep in mind the stories of th...
Accessibility Down Under
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on 13 Letters – we take you to the land down under. Sarah Pulis and Andrew Arch are big names in a vibrant and thriving accessibility scen...
Global Accessibility Action Every Day
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Accessibility is for everyone – not just people with disabilities. That's why Jennison Asuncion and Joe Devon put their heads together almost ten ye...
Household Names
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Going with your gut is easier said than done — but for Sumaira "Sam" Latif, Company Accessibility Leader at P&G, trusting her instincts has made som...
First to the Party
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It ain't always easy being first – that's why we have brilliant folks like Victor Tsaran to do it for us. Victor was the first blind employee on the...
270 CEOs Can't Be Wrong
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What's it like to hide your blindness from the world? Caroline Casey did it for years. Her parents never told her she was "blind," and, when she got i...
Branding Accessibility
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We don't always decide what we hear or how we hear it – but that's changing. KR Liu, the new head of brand accessibility at Google, has a mission to...
Will VR Be Accessible?
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Larry Goldberg wants every piece of media to be "born accessible." 40 years ago there was no captioning, no audio description, no secondary audio chan...
The Deaf-blind Lawyer
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
'Fearless' is a word many would use to describe Haben Girma, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School. A disability rights lawyer, m...
Right at Home
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There was once a time when traveling with a disability was a daunting prospect. Srin Madipalli co-founded Accomable to create a database for d...
How (Not) to Get Sued
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You don't mess with Lainey Feingold. That's probably why, after a 25 year career in accessibility and 75 successful, precedent-setting agreements with...
The Mad Blogger
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sheri Byrne-Haber self-identifies as a "no excuses type of gal." The head of accessibility at VMware, public speaker and accessibility expert with deg...
Can Disabled Americans Vote?
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When Whitney Quesenbery talks about elections, she uses phrases like "design tragedy" and "unintended consequences." Though the number of disabled vot...
Accessibility Should Be Free
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
PART TWO: Mike Shebanek made Apple products work for everyone. He wasn't always an accessibility maven, though. Mike worked his way up to become the p...
Who Invented VoiceOver?
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
PART ONE: Mike Shebanek made Apple products work for everyone. He wasn't always an accessibility maven, though. Mike worked his way up to become the p...
Introducing 13 Letters: The Accessibility Podcast
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Accessibility is, ironically, not the most "accessible" concept. An intricate mix of best practices, regulations and creative approaches, accessibilit...