1/4 Fable has been awarded the #5 spot on @FastCompany’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023 in the design category! This list highlights businesses at the forefront of their respective industries who are paving the way for the innovations of tomorrow.
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Fable recently surveyed our community of assistive technology users to get a sense of what the online retail shopping experience is like for people with disabilities, and how they make online shopping decisions. Read the article: makeitfable.com/insights/ins…
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“Fable opens the door to hear suggestions and feedback from the world’s largest under-represented group - people with disabilities.” - Lisa Layton, Experience Designer. Read the John Lewis & Partners case study: makeitfable.com/how-john-lew…
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Fable is proud to sponsor the 2023 @MagnifyConf. Run by designers and researchers for the design research community, this conference explores topics that support implementing equity-seeking design and research processes.
Learn more: bit.ly/3ObVnkm#Magnify2023
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“This landscape report provides product leaders thoughtful research to help them choose the best vendors for measuring accessibility and enhancing usability.”
Read more about Forrester's report, The Digital Accessibility Platforms Landscape, Q2 2023:
prweb.com/releases/2023/07/p…
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Learn how the Themes Team prioritizes accessibility earlier in the product lifecycle to get ahead of usability bugs in our latest customer story, How Shopify ships accessible themes for merchant storefronts.
Read the Shopify case study: makeitfable.com/how-shopify-…
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Learn how Kaush Ganesh, Senior Design Researcher of Duo Security at Cisco, and Jen Smith, PCWA, Design Director of Accessibility at Visa built accessibility champion programs and what they learned along the way in our #ExpertsWithFable recap blog: bit.ly/3JuDrQz
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What is the potential impact of AI on inclusion for people with disabilities? We surveyed assistive tech users to understand their hopes and concerns for #AI#Inclusion and #A11y: shorturl.at/eiI35
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Thanks @uofg for having us at this year's #AllyConf! Elana and Doug co-presented Prioritizing lived experiences: compatibility tests with assistive technology users.
Learn about how testing with Fable builds exceptional and accessible user experiences: bit.ly/3MCcN99
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Season two of @disability_band has come to an end! Fable is proud to be a founding sponsor. You can check out the full back catalog of Disability Bandwidth with transcripts on its website, or wherever you stream podcasts.
Link to episode: bit.ly/3MyTg9M#a11y
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Since 2012, #GAAD has challenged the culture of technology and digital product development to embrace accessibility as a core requirement. For this year’s
@gbla11yday we’re thrilled to share this @disability_band episode with co-founder
@joedevon.
Link: bit.ly/3pVLjUw
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What's it like to work in #a11y as a person with a disability? Join us Thurs at 2PM EST for a #GAAD edition of Experts with Fable!
Register: bit.ly/3pAdlED
Hosted on Zoom, with autocaptions. Registrants will receive a recording with remediated captions and transcript.
ALT Experts with Fable, GAAD Edition. Disability in the workplace: reflections of people with disabilities working in accessibility. May 18, 2pm ET.
Panelists with headshots: Tamas Geczy, Web Accessibility Engineer, Spotify. Crystal Preston-Watson, Sr. Digital Accessibility Analyst, Salesforce. Natalie Patrice Tucker, Sr. Accessibility Lead, Spotify. Sam Proulx, Accessibility Evangelist, Fable.
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Today is Day Two of @3playmedia's free, virtual ACCESS Conference! Hear discussion from Sam, Christopher Land of @Oracle and Roger Zimmerman of 3Play Media explore the role of AI in digital accessibility at 11:45am EST.
Register: go.3playmedia.com/en/access/…
ALT ACCESS 2023. April 27 and 28, hosted by 3PlayMedia.
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Accessibility isn’t a barrier to design, development, or new products and services, it’s a constraint that fuels creative problem solving and fresh approaches.
Read more about Fable's innovation framework on our blog: bit.ly/41NCWrD
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1/7 We wanted to share some insights from our recent research report on screen readers user experiences and some information around what screen readers are, and who uses them (a thread🧵).
6/7 The report explores how the three popular screen readers – #JAWS for Windows, #NVDA for Windows, #VoiceOver for Mac – perform on the Accessible Usability Scale (AUS). We also recommend questions to ask screen reader users in user research.
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