Podcasts

Weekend: Building Accessible Games and Reading Tools

Shaun Preece talks with Dani about building RetroRapid! and Xarra! with accessibility at the center, from multiple ways to play to reading and listening with synchronized text.

S4E7: Progress over perfection

To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Mikaela and Paul recorded a special episode live at ARCtic Conference in Oulu, Finland, with a distinguished panel of accessibility champions: Rob Whitaker, Dani Devesa Derksen-Staats and Klemens Strasser. If accessibility seems like an overwhelming subject, don't panic; we show you not just why but also give you tips on how to get started with ensuring your apps are as accessible as possible — and remember the mantra, 'progress over perfection'!

Episode 8: Dani Devesa Derksen-Staats - Ex-Spotify

Dani Devesa Derksen-Staats, former iOS Accessibility Engineer at Spotify, The Times, The BBC and SkyScanner Joins Joe to discuss all things Mobile and iOS Accessibility. We discuss his own experience within the field of Mobile and Digital Accessibility and general iOS Development, how all developers and engineers can make a small change to their thinking to make a huge impact, and discussing the mentality of Progress over Perfection and how we need to make mistakes to learn from them and improve.

Episode 19: Engineering for Accessibility

When we forget to consider accessibility in our designs, we forget that it can mean the difference between your feature working or not working for people — and that accessibility issues can affect us all, whether we have a permanent disability or an armful of groceries. So how do you get developers and designers to adopt an accessibility mindset and make it a fundamental part of the development process? Host Dave Zolotusky discusses the importance of accessibility with Dani Devesa Derksen-Staats, an iOS engineer on Spotify’s accessibility team.