Victor Tsaran - Google Design Platform Accessibility Lead

OUTLINE:
00:00 Opening Teaser
00:43 Introduction
01:27 How Using A Screen Reader Is Like Looking Through A Straw
03:38 What Are Earcons?
04:31 Growing Up Blind In Ukraine & Moving To The US
08:53 Victor On Being A Musician
10:11 Why Did You Start Working With Computers?
11:57 Launching A Computer Center For The Blind
14:11 Victor's Advice On Public Speaking
16:12 Communicating The Importance of Accessibility To People Without A Disability
19:09 Role As Google Design Platform Accessibility Lead
21:56 Recommended Courses For Learning About AI
24:27 What Role Does AI Play In Alt Text For Images?
26:31 Future of AI's Role In Accessibility
28:25 What AI Tools Do You Use For Coding?
32:34 Concerns About AI and Accessibility
34:36 The Trolley Problem - Ethical Dilemmas In AI / Waymo
40:19 Victor's Book Suggestions
41:53 Things Sighted People Say To Blind People
45:31 Making Art and Music Accessible
47:27 Wrap Up

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EPISODE LINKS:

Victor Tsaran: An Introduction to Screen Readers
https://youtu.be/izrC4R7SsH4

How Blind Users Experience Youtube | Victor Tsaran | Talks at Google
https://youtu.be/ewCSjiZ7Cdo

Earcon Demonstration
https://youtu.be/sv_swxXGc5s

TEDxSiliconValley - Victor Tsaran - 12/12/09
https://youtu.be/BsJB73c38yw

Braille Writing Devices: Slate and Stylus
https://youtu.be/50XCmWMiM-4

CompuServe
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/yaa0ik/compuserve_internet_access_in_1980_only_500_an/

Material Design
https://m3.material.io
https://m3.material.io/foundations/overview

Service Now - Horizon
https://horizon.servicenow.com
https://horizon.servicenow.com/guidelines/accessibility

Victor Tsaran's Music
https://open.spotify.com/artist/605ZF2JPei9KqgbXBqYA16
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/victor-tsaran/344507896
https://www.youtube.com/@VictorTsaran/releases

Vanderbilt University
https://www.vanderbilt.edu
https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/bio/?pid=jules-white

Andrew Ng's AI For Everyone
https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone

DeepLearning.AI
https://www.deeplearning.ai

Gemini Canvas
https://gemini.google/overview/canvas/

CodeMirror
https://codemirror.net

Visual Studio Code
https://code.visualstudio.com

GNU Emacs
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Cursor
https://cursor.com

Windsurf
https://windsurf.com

Waymo
https://waymo.com

Moral Machine
https://www.moralmachine.net

Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095
https://www.wired.com/story/yanis-varoufakis-technofeudalism-interview/

Emma Donoghue - Author
https://www.emmadonoghue.com

Ep 9 - Matt Ater - Senior Vice President, Vispero
https://youtu.be/n6NGlE3qM3E

Ep 2 - Jennison Asuncion - Head of Accessibility at LinkedIn, Co-Founder of GAAD
https://youtu.be/X4QsrxskWHU

James Teh at NV Access
https://www.nvaccess.org/about-nv-access/

OSARA: Open Source Accessibility for the REAPER Application
https://osara.reaperaccessibility.com

Victor Tsaran's Links
https://www.linkedin.com/in/victortsaran
https://www.youtube.com/@VictorTsaran
https://x.com/vick08