Accessible Community
Join us as we explore living with a disability and accessibility success stories.
Episodes
18 episodes
Accessible Parks and Adaptive Recreation
In this episode of Accessibility in Practice, Adam Fischbein sits down with Mel Dunn, Chief Operating Officer of the Aimee Copeland Foundation and a passionate advocate for disability inclusion and outdoor accessibility.After acquiring a...
ADHD with Lindsay Shelton
In this episode of Day in the Life, host Taylor Dorward speaks with Lindsay Shelton about ADHD, mental health, identity, masking, and what it means to build a life that works with—not against—your brain. Lindsay shares her experiences ...
All In Dublin
In this episode of Accessibility in Practice, host Adam Fishbein speaks with Mark Dunham, Tiba Alagah, and Brady Fox about All in Dublin, an inclusive and affordable housing project in central Ohio. The conversation explores how ...
ADHD with Sam Bush
In this episode of the Day in the Life series, host Taylor Dorward sits down with Sam Bush, Chief Marketing Officer at Dooap, to explore what it’s like to live and work with ADHD. Sam shares her journey to receiving a diagnosis later in life, t...
ADHD with Cat Schneider
In this episode of the Day in the Life series, host Taylor Dorward sits down with Cat Schneider, a Microsoft MVP, accessibility advocate, and late-diagnosed ADHD speaker, to explore what it’s really like to live and work with ADHD. Kat...
MS with Matt Knags
In this episode of the Day In The Life series, host Taylor Dorward sits down with Matt Knags, a father, runner, and MS advocate, who shares his journey living with relapsing-remitting MS. Matt opens up about the joys of staying active, the chal...
MS with Jennifer Cowan
In this episode of Day in the Life, host Taylor Dorward sits down with Jennifer Cowan to talk about living with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS). Jennifer shares her long road to diagnosis, how movement and routines like wal...
MS with Bobby Small
We sit down with Bobby Small to talk about living with multiple sclerosis (MS) and what it’s really like day to day. Bobby shares his diagnosis story, how MS has affected work, energy, and routines, and why transparency and self-advocacy matter...
Blindness with Diogo Melo
Taylor is joined by Diogo Melo—an iOS developer and accessibility specialist from Porto, Portugal—to talk about living with blindness from retinitis pigmentosa, navigating work and daily life with screen readers, and staying active through musi...
Blindness with Cori Perlander
We spend time with Cori as she shares what everyday life looks like navigating blindness as a professional, parent, and strategist. Cori reflects on losing vision over time and how it has shaped her career, identity, mental health, and approach...
Digital Accessibility in Taiwan with Claire Chang
In this episode of Accessibility in Practice, we speak with Claire Chang, an advocate, expert, and researcher based in Taiwan. She talks about the landscape of digital accessibility in Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region, and what applying digit...
Blindness with Beth
We sit down with Beth to explore what daily life looks like for a blind woman who has navigated blindness since birth. Beth shares thoughtful and honest insights into everything from education, work, travel, relationships, and assistive technol...
Blindness with Florian Beijers
What does it really mean to live, work, and game while blind? In this episode of Day in the Life, host Taylor Dorward talks with Florian Beijers, a fully blind accessibility professional and content creator, about blindne...
Blindness with Mike Hess
We are joined by Mike Hess as we explore what life looks like navigating the world as a blind man. He shares a real and honest perspective on the day-to-day challenges, mindset, and experiences that have shaped how he sees the world. More impor...
Social Accessibility, Disability, and Designing a World That Works
Language warning: This episode contains a swear word. Episode DescriptionIn this episode of Accessibility in Practice, host Adam Fishbein sits down with Peter Slatin, a longtime advocate, writer,...