62: UX Design and Cognitive Disability

Rain Michaels wears many hats. She is the UX designer behind Google’s Action Blocks and the new enhanced Select-to-Speak features on Chrome OS. As if that weren’t enough, she is also one of the maintainers for accessibility on the community-developed Drupal content management system, and she is a co-chair of W3C’s Cognitive Accessibility task force. On today's show, we talk about all of it, and how Rain thinks about making sites and tools accessible to people with a variety of cognitive challenges.

Rain Michaels wears many hats. She is the UX designer behind Google’s Action Blocks and the new enhanced Select-to-Speak features on Chrome OS. As if that weren’t enough, she is also one of the maintainers for accessibility on the community-developed Drupal content management system, and she is a co-chair of W3C’s Cognitive Accessibility task force. On today's show, we talk about all of it, and how Rain thinks about making sites and tools accessible to people with a variety of cognitive challenges.

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Rain Michaels

Links and Show Notes: Support Parallel with a Relay FM Membership Action Blocks - Apps on Google Play Chromebooks announces new features for 10th birthday Understanding COGA, W3C's cognitive accessibility guidelines| Q&A - YouTube Accessibility | Drupal.org Learning Drupal 8 [Video] Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Cognitive Accessibility Community Group