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Chancey Fleet wants a technological future that’s more organically attuned to people’s needs, which requires including people with disabilities in every step of the development and deployment process. She speaks with EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Jason Kelley about building an internet that’s just and useful for all, and why this must include giving blind and low-vision people the discretion to decide when and how to engage artificial intelligence tools to solve accessibility problems and surmount barriers.
In this episode you’ll learn about:
Chancey Fleet’s writing, organizing and
advocacy explores how cloud-connected accessibility tools benefit and
harm, empower and expose communities of disability. She is the Assistive
Technology Coordinator at the New York Public Library’s Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, where she founded and maintains the Dimensions Project,
a free open lab for the exploration and creation of accessible images,
models and data representations through tactile graphics, 3D models and
nonvisual approaches to coding, CAD and “visual” arts. She is a former
fellow and current affiliate-in-residence at Data & Society; she is president of the National Federation of the Blind’s Assistive Technology Trainers Division; and she was recognized as a 2017 Library Journal Mover and Shaker.
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