Adina Malamut: Collaborating to Support Accessibility Across Disciplines
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What is the purpose of this episode and who is the guest?
Welcome to the Talking The Tech Podcast. My name's Chris Bouguet and I'm not here with Rachel Needle today. It's just me flying solo to offer you all an invitation. If you were to go back into the archives and listen to episode 315 with Dr. Yu Sung Chung, The banter of that episode is me sharing with Rachel a generative AI tool called Sunoai, or now it's Suno.com. So if you go to Suno.ai or Suno.com, what that is is a music generator where you can put in some text and uh give it a prompt to say, turn this into a song. That's a pop song, country song, heavy metal, punk rock, whatever, um, based on whatever the topic is that you wanted to talk about. So in that particular episode, we um did one live and then we also shared a couple that we created.
And so it was kind of fun. A lot of people have reached out uh since that episode saying that they've been using that tool to generate songs to give to kids. Or do uh use as part of professional learning or for whatever, whatever, maybe teach a concept of some sort. Whatever it is, people have been reaching out saying that was a cool one and that they were using that resource. So we thought it would be fun uh here over the summer as we roll into the summer months, that maybe if you wanted to, you could create some sort of song using. Suno.com or any other music generator, send it to us, and we will create a mishmash of all these songs related to AAC or inclusive design or universal design, and we'll see what we do depending on how many how many uh entries we get.
Again, it's not really a contest. We just thought it'd be something fun to do. So just send us your M. MP3 files or whatever your audio files, you can send it at talkingwithtech at gmail.com. We'll compile it all, throw everything into a folder, and we'll put it up as either a banter or its own episode, maybe a bonus episode. Who knows? We'll see what we do with it. But we just thought it would be a fun thing to do for the summer. We'll probably um, you know, there'll be a day that we cut off taking the entries. probably let's say um let's say the end of july let's say july 31st 2025 um if you hear and listen to this before then um go ahead make the audio file send it to us and we will then see what we do with it all right without further ado let's listen to my interview with adina malamut
Welcome to the Talking Wick Tech Podcast. My name is Chris Bouguet and I have the great fortune of being interviewed today by Adenina Malamet. How's it going, Adina? Hey, good, good. Um, all right, so listeners, longtime listeners in the podcast will know that I live near George Mason University. I have some contacts there that I've known for many, many years. You know, you meet you make uh uh colleagues and friends and professional relationships over the years. And so uh longtime listeners of the podcast will know we've had these sort of episodes before where uh students in the field of of a Assistive technology at uh part of their assignment at at George Mason University is to interview a professional that works in assistive technology.
The um Dr. Cindy George is the teacher of this class and has contacts all over the state. And so all of the people in her class get assigned to somebody and Adina, you got assigned to me. So I'm so great fortune. Um so, so Adina, let's, I'm just gonna turn it over to you. Can you tell us a little bit about who you are? what you do and then I'll let you interview me.
Um sure. Let me where is it? Um, I sent my blurb, but I will read my blurb. Um So first about me, I am a Female white. I'm wearing a pink shirt. I have my hair up in like a bun, um, brown hair, blue eyes. Um, and that's me. And so with I have a deep passion for accessibility, inclusion, equitable workplace solutions. I'm dedicated to ensuring that individuals, whether students or employees, um, can thrive without barriers. I currently serve as the um employee accessibility specialist. It's a mouthful. At the University of Texas Dallas. So I'm in the DFW area, where I collaborate with faculty staff and leadership in the interactive ADA process to create a level playing field for all employees.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of this episode and who is the guest?
0:08–9:33
2
How did Adina’s personal and professional background lead her to work in accessibility?
9:33–17:03
3
What are the main challenges and strategies for assistive‑technology advocacy and evaluation?
17:03–24:09
4
How do the new WCAG 2.2 guidelines affect accessibility work in higher education?
24:09–30:51
5
Why does Adina emphasize reflective questioning over giving direct instructions?
30:51–37:41
6
What is the tier‑one, tier‑two system approach to universal design and AAC?
37:41–44:55
7
How does she collect and use data to measure the effectiveness of accommodations?
44:55–53:14
8
What are Adina’s thoughts on certification, future trends, and next steps for accessibility professionals?
53:14–58:21
Speakers
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