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Meet Lucy Greco, Web Accessibility Evangelist with the University of California, Berkeley

Posted on March 25, 2022 - 1:30 pm by Shannon Carollo

Career Conversations is a monthly Zoom interview of an individual who is blind or low vision and gainfully employed. Meet our first guest, Lucy Greco and watch her Career Conversation episode at the bottom of the page. Lucy Greco, on what shaped her Lucy, blind since birth, grew up in Canada with her mother and […]

Kiran Kaja, Accessibility Lead for Instagram, shares what ignited his passion for accessibility

Posted on March 25, 2022 - 9:49 am by Shannon Carollo

Kiran Kaja has a rare form of Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP); while most with RP begin losing their vision in their teenage years, Kiran has been blind since birth. Thankfully, Kiran’s parents understood early on that blindness is but one characteristic of an individual and that he was and is fully capable. Blindness did, however, uniquely […]

Looking for a Savvy Career Move? Consider Computer Coding

Posted on December 13, 2021 - 2:52 pm by Amy Lynn Smith

Photo of young man using an assistive device

Two years into the COVID pandemic, a lot of people are rethinking their careers for a variety of reasons. A terrific option for people who are blind or low vision is computer coding: creating websites and apps. It’s a field where people with vision loss can thrive because coding is all text-based, making it compatible with […]

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